Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1936

Letter ID: 1694

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

August 4, 1936

J had never any bile! He complained of pain and weakness.

Ah yes. I was under the impression it was S. I am always mixing them together.

You did not answer my question about the Force. What I asked you was that by the very fact of much obstacle, the Force or the giver of the Force knows that some mistake is being committed. Suppose you give a certain Force, but it fails to produce the desired result, then you say, “Oh that fellow has given wrong medicines – Swine!”

Not at all. The Force (I am out of the picture here) feels a greater obstacle, but need not know that it is due to a wrong medicine. Force and Knowledge are two different things and in the consciousness below Supermind may go together or may not.

Swine is inappropriate – it should be some other animal.