Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 1. 1936

Letter ID: 1563

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

March 2, 1936

U has a painless swelling in the nape of the neck. It has increased in size, and will go on increasing... It is called a lipoma, i.e. fatty tumour; harmless and painless but ugly and “worthless”.

He wants it to be cut off mercilessly: a very simple operation under local anasthesia; doesn’t require lying in bed, except for one or two days.

For the one or two days he would have to remain at the hospital?

If you like I can show it to Philaire, or he can go to our Miracle doctor, and wait for a miracle...

I don’t think it will be any use sending him to R – he does not succeed so well with the Ashram people because they are too critical and have too much feeling against him. He works not by medicine alone, but by suggestion also with the Force behind him, and a spirit of critical antagonism and that working do not go well together. For the sadhaks better trust to medicine and the knife.