Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1936

Letter ID: 1763

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

October 26, 1936

You wrote to me that we should drop the mixing together and cooking. How to drop the mixing, Sir?

I did not write “mixing” – I wrote “messing” – food, sir, food; eating in common, sort of psycho-gastric communion forming a spiritual culinary joy. If you want occultism, you shall have it with a vengeance.

If one has a double attachment, would it not be an insincerity?

It depends on the ideal. If it were a matter of the union of two lives, it would be an insincerity, a faithlessness. But for the vital? Its character is to change, sometimes to multiply, to run here and there. Unless of course it is caught, glued to a single attraction or passion for a long period or for a lifetime. But in such gluings it is generally one of the two that is entangled, the other skirmishes around dragging his living appendage or else leaving it half-glued, half-dropped.

All my problems would have been solved if you hadn’t been sitting so tight on my notebook, Sir. All this psychology would have helped me in my story writing.

Sir, it is a melancholy subject I don’t like to go into just now. I would rather tell you when you can look back with a retrospective interest, than inflict it on you now.

By the way, what do you say to my asking Dr. Sircar to teach me The Life Divine?

Fire away.

A complains of slight bleeding per rectum. Beginning of piles?

Irritation somewhere in the intestine? No signs of dysenteric tendency. Or a passing accident. He only mentioned having it twice.

We have advised some fresh air after work and is it possible to alternate his sedentary work with some activity?

That is what we have advised him – although diminishing his sedentary work may make other sedentary people more sedentary. Don’t know exactly how it is to be done, but it must be.

What about giving him some mixtures containing Soda sulph., Ammon. chlor., etc.?

You can give if A is willing to take.

Here is M’s autobiography of headache and vomiting...

Queer history!

These days he is keeping well, it appears. Perhaps the “ghost” has been dissolved!

I hope so. I have done my best to that end.