Nirodbaran

Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo

Second Series

3. Matters Medical

Medical Notes

Well, Sir, you have made people believe that medicines and doctors are no good and at the same time could not infuse into them sufficient faith in you. Result – they have fallen between two stools!

Well, T and S used both to get cured without need of medicines once on a time. The later development has evidently come for your advantage so that you may have elementary exercises in samatā. I have had a lot of schooling in that way and graduated M.A. Your turn now.

If you had treated them in the pre-ashram period, do you think their comments if not at once cured would have been more filled with a holy awe and submission to the doctors?

Exactly – for these are poor little uneducated people. But are the big brains at bottom less unreasonable and insistent? All alike, sir, in one way or another. Man who is a reasoning animal no doubt, but not a reasonable one.

17.10.1936