Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1936

Letter ID: 1805

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

December 19, 1936

Enquired about S. She does not seem to take enough food and says she doesn’t feel hungry. I think she should take lots of vitamins – do you believe in them?

Certainly.

She should take oranges, apples, butter, raw tomato if available...

Tomato not available just now.

I consulted P.S. He says he is not in favour of medicines. In Calcutta too, doctors were rarely called. I told him that home-conditions were lacking here, regarding food. Then he said, “Whatever Mother says must be done.”

It is not medicines that Mother wanted to give; but on the one side fortifying foodstuff (like cod-liver oil, but all cannot stand cod-liver oil) and on the other something for purifying the blood (e.g. in France they give chicory tisane for that). All that will not be necessary if she takes sufficient food. If you can see to that, these other things will not be necessary. What Mother wants is that she should not be allowed to be weak and underfed at this age which is important for the growth.

I have to admit now that poetry can be taken as sadhana – for whatever makes you think of the Mother, is sadhana, isn’t it?

Yes.

And I have some hope in poetry, after all, what?

A great deal of hope.