Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1937

Letter ID: 1904

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

April 8, 1937

Today 4 persons were vaccinated. It is a very simple affair, but there is going to be trouble, it seems. The assistant says it is not possible for him to come every day only for 4 persons, neither can he leave the vaccines etc. without Valle’s permission. He says there’s hardly any reaction, except a slight fever in children. So what’s the harm in vaccinating more people?... The thing is that they have stock vaccine tubes (sealed) for 50 people – not less than that. Once a tube is unsealed, it has to be used up in a day, or discarded. Today already we had to throw away some. If, by chance, there is none one day, we can simply drop that day. But for that, the assistant said, Valle’s permission is required, otherwise we can buy from the pharmacy. If Valle doesn’t allow the first, we’ll be compelled to buy. But what a cost it’ll be! I’m sceptical about Valle’s permission, because he insists on the staff’s presence and I don’t know that he would like only 4 persons at a time. So what’s to be done about it? Gqffiero will have no objection, I think. But Valle is in charge. And the difficulty is how to say all this in French.

And yet it was Valle himself who wrote saying that they would not impose their doctors or infirmiers upon us!

Valle and Gaffiero don’t pull on well together.

Mother has asked Pavitra to see Gaffiero tomorrow. Pavitra will be going at 9, so you must go to Pavitra’s before 9.