Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1938

Fragment ID: 6344

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Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

January 4, 1938

In B’s case, I find a small vein is tender and knotty, the muscles are quite free. So has it affected the vein now or was it so from the beginning?

[The Mother:] So, most likely it is varicose.

“The wandering waters of my life Wash thy eternal shore... But thy impregnable silence bears With calm their passionate moans.”

[Sri Aurobindo:] Good Lord! don’t moan like that.