of pox here just before going but don’t know if it was small or chicken.Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1937
Letter ID: 1918
Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar
April 22, 1937
By the way, you didn’t understand me. I didn’t mean that you damned my poems, but my metres or rather my innovations in metres.
Oh that! Of course. Your irregulars were very rough with the poor English language. As for Romen, I understand he simply hooks on to the source and lets it tumble through him. That explains his success: যোগঃ কর্মসু কৌশলং1 – যোগ = joining on, hooking on.
Charcoal given to D. He has had 3 motions – all healthy, but rather bulky for his age. What does Mother say to a small dose of Mag. Sulph. or Soda Sulph.?
No.
Sometimes deficient fat digestion, due to liver derangement, may produce bulky stools; but then it would be clay colour. Enema won’t have action on liver.
What is the need of purge or enema, when there is free motion, healthy, though in excess?
Do you know beforehand whom you will vaccinate? If so Mother also would like to know beforehand. (Question of experiments with Force.)
I am afraid I have to multiply exemptions – Khirod, (too busy to have leisure for fever,) Dikshit (do, also very bad health); Atal (do, too busy, also frequent previous vaccination).
By the way, I suppose you enquire before vaccinating, whether they ever had smallpox. Dasaratha Reddy, I believe had some kind of pox here just before going but don’t know if it was small or chicken.
Isn’t it high time that you opened up the medical channel in me, Sir? I feel ashamed that being a doctor I can’t cure cases!
Medical channel? Rather rocky perhaps and sanded – but if poetry could open, why not medicine?
1 yogaḥ karmasu kauśalaṃ: Yoga is skill in works.