Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 4
Mother has been told of the opinion of Dr. Satyavrata1 and in view of what he says about the diagnosis and proposed treatment of the alleged osteoarthritis, Janak should certainly drop the whole affair as she has done. In the uncertainty about the rest it is hardly possible to make her any definite recommendation contrary to her resolution to drop all medical treatment. The one definite hope lies in her resolution to come away at the first opportunity; her position is terribly difficult, but a strong will often creates an unexpected opportunity or means for its own fulfilment. You have done well to write to Justice Mullick to help her, but in the present state of things will she be allowed by these people to receive his visit or his help? I do not know if anybody else would have a chance, in view of the strange relations between her husband and her own people.
Of course, recommendation to Jogendra not to take you away but to let you realise the Divine first has no meaning. Must one realise the Divine before one can serve him or is not service of the Divine a step on the way to realisation and a help towards it? In any case, the service and the realisation are both necessary for a complete yoga and one cannot fix an unalterable rule of precedence between the two.
All right for the stotra in March2.