Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 1. 1936

Letter ID: 1607

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

April 20, 1936

Noni came to enquire if I had told you anything! Can he go to R? Wouldn’t it be better since he cured him once?

If R is willing to take him up.

How is it that my patients go on lingering and lingering even with a trifling thing? Some don’t receive Force, others repent it, others receiving have no effect, etc., etc., and I have to quarrel with you for a dose? Whereas R has it in a flood simply for the asking or even without. R cures cancer in 10 days, goitre in 2 weeks and diabetes in 7 days.

Hallo! 10 days?

Which was the diabetes case? I have forgotten.

Immense energy, enthusiasm, vital force, 100 miles an hour determination to succeed and a 2000 horse power confidence, “I will do it” – vital absolutely convinced of the Force, mind constantly finding reasons for belief in it (not as you and others do equally or more, admitting reasons against); rapid intuitions getting there in spite of any errors of speculation, decision of mind and will accompanied by a mobile and plastic observing mind suiting itself to the circumstances and then overcoming them – that’s the secret of a powerful instrumentalism – at least in a rajasic man. A sattwic fellow would do it also but on other lines. You – ahem!

Doctor in the same boat as the patients? When will you put me on the “Queen Mary”?

When will you walk in? Very dawdling and deliberate gait, sir!