Couldn’t be saved from one. If you can’t grow new hair, please help to preserve the little I have, Sir.Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1937
Letter ID: 2010
Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar
July 29, 1937
Surely you know what I meant by “old man is done”?
Surely I did, but he was not at all done by me, so I had to pass on your question to the young woman.
D wants the poems back, you know.
Well, well – I will try to push my way through him.
People say I am getting absolutely bald, Sir. Two things I feared – one a big tummy and another, a smooth baldness. Couldn’t be saved from one. If you can’t grow new hair, please help to preserve the little I have, Sir.
What one fears, is usually what happens. Even if there were no other disposition, the fear calls it in. Who knows, if you had not feared, you might have had the waist of a race-runner and the hair of Samson.
I read in Mother’s Conversations1 that skin, hair and teeth “belong to the most material layers of the being”, so spiritual Force takes a long time to act on them. Is it true?
Painfully true.
Then I have no chance till the Supermind descends?
I suppose not. And who knows what fancies the Supramental may have.
1 Mother’s Centenary Vol. 3, p. 90.