Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1937

Letter ID: 1844

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

February 6, 1937

I hear X has a deep affection, respect and admiration for Y and yet I know that she has suffered a lot at his hands.

[Sri Aurobindo underlined “deep affection”.]

Of course. A womanly woman always appreciates a man who can make her suffer, provided he has a dominating personality. Cave-woman instinct.

X was given some home-truths today. She didn’t like it very much...

Of course not – nobody likes home-truths when they show one’s own inconsistent egoism. If they did not go home, they would be more pleasant.

B has long-standing piles – painful and burning.

He wrote about something like a boil near about + protruding piles and was afraid of being immobilised if it went on. Nothing of the kind?

By the way, is there still trouble in Mother’s eyes?

Somewhat.

I send for information another tragic letter from S – which please return. It appears, it is only a resurrected S that is walking about the Asram since yesterday afternoon!

I say – Dr. Hutchinson, President of the Royal Society of Medicine, in London, says (vide Sunday Times, page 4) that if all the doctors struck work for a year, it would make no difference in the death-rate. The doctors’ only use is to give comfort, confidence and consolation. Now what do you say to this opinion of your President? Rather hot, isn’t it?