Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1938

Letter ID: 2118

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

June 3, 1938

[Sri Aurobindo and the Mother]

B’s piles still quite the same.

[Mother:] What “pommade” are you giving him? is it Anthémor? He was complaining that the pommade was increasing his pain.

Should we stop giving K honey? He has taken it for quite a long time.

[Mother:] No harm, he can continue.

J has a small pimple in the left eye. I think saline eye bath and drops of argyrol will do. What does Mother say?

Yes, I suppose it is all right.

We have no kājal.

If kajal is wanted, why not have some prepared? People are asking, but Mother can’t supply everybody.

I am sending you the power of attorney draft sent by Chand. It’s in Bengali; you will see how difficult it is to translate the terms into English. What the hell am I to do?

I have not the hell of an idea!

Doraiswamy is coming this Sunday, I hear. Shall I ask him?

He may be coming, but as yet he has not announced it.

Or your I.C.S. knowledge would be help enough? I.C.S. people are supposed to be Gods, you know, knowing everything!

Good Lord, sir! I was a probationer only and had nothing to do with these elaborate idiocies. If I had been a practising civilian, I might have had to do it, but probably I wouldn’t have done it and they would have chucked me out for insubordination and laziness.

With whom am I to go to the Consul? nothing to pay?

Purani will take you and find out everything and arrange everything.