Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
CWSA 35
Fragment ID: 8970
Spiritual Force and the Body [1]
It is a pity that X could not write all this time. Formerly when she wrote often she used to get better after writing. It is also a pity that she has been told by the doctors that she is not going to live; even if it is true, such a thing should not be told unless in case of necessity (which does not exist in her case), for it takes away much of the power of resistance and diminishes what chances of cure and survival there were. X’s physical destiny has always been against her but this is a thing that can be cancelled if one can have sufficient faith and inner strength and openness and receive the spiritual force.1
27 June 1935
1 The woman referred to here as X lived until 1993. – Ed.