Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1938

Letter ID: 2167

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

August 13, 1938

[Sri Aurobindo and the Mother]

Dining Room servant’s legs scalded by hot water... don’t you think it will be advisable to keep some tannic acid solution (which is not a poison) in D.R., so that in emergencies like small burns it can be applied? It is very effective and simple in application.

[Mother:] Yes, it is better but contents and use must be clearly written on the bottle with a red label (for external use only) to prevent all possibility of mistake.

Is not picric acid more effective?

Guru, I became desperate and brought down this poem. God knows whether its head is in normal condition or is lacerated.

No harm has happened to the poetry (whatever be the case with the head) except that rhythm and metre are rather lacerated in some lines of the last 3 stanzas.