Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1938

Letter ID: 2163

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

August 4, 1938

Guru, thank you for making me a king! But a king without a queen wouldn’t look nice, would he?

I tried the new form today, but found it extremely difficult.

That is natural after confining yourself so long to one form. You have to grow a facility in the new one.

R says that you think it wise not to remove the crust of his eczema, but press out the pus and apply medicine over it. But the crust is not healthy; it is formed by the pus itself...

[The Mother marked the first sentence with a vertical line.]

It is his own interpretation of the sympathy I showed to his pains. I never intended to interfere with the treatment.