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Nirodbaran

Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo

Second Series

3. Matters Medical

The Doctor and the Divine Force (I)

I am sending you a diagnosis of the ailment of my first patient. It is bad luck for me to have to tackle such a difficult case at the very outset of my medical work in the Ashram. But why do you have to spend so much Force, when you can really do the whole job by a word; I mean, why not cut short our labour and the patient's discomfort by launching your 1 from the higher Divine consciousness! I hope my patient gets cured soon by Your Force.

It is a test case, I suppose! I should have thought everybody knows that doctors have to be guessing all the time and that cure is a matter of hit or miss. If you hit often, you are a clever doctor – or if you kill people brilhantly, then also. It reduces itself to that.

I did not expect you to take my with such grim seriousness. Speaking semi-seriously, I am not here to do miracles to order, but to try to get in a new consciousness somewhere in the world – which is itself however to attempt a miracle. If physical miracles happen to tumble in in the process, well and good, but you can't  present your medical pistol in my face and call on me to stand and deliver. As for the Force, application of my force, short of the supramental, means always a struggle of forces and the success depends (1) on the strength and persistency of the force put out (2) the receptivity of the subject (3) the sanction of the Unmentionable – I beg your pardon, I meant the Unnameable, Ineffable, Unknowable. X's physical consciousness is rather obstinate, as you have noticed, and therefore not too receptive. It may feel the Mother inside it, but to obey her will or force is less habitual for it.

X asked me to tell you that he felt your Presence and Force in the evening very concretely. He does not want any medicines at all; he says that he used to have doubts before, but now they have disappeared.

It is queer. All the force I am putting into it or almost all turns into this subjective form – some objective result is there but still slight, uncertain and slow. Of course the cause is apparent – he has been accustomed to receive subjectively but not accustomed to receive physically. It is not however convenient for the present purpose except as a step (for him) for the more objective receptivity.

28-31.01.1935

 

1 tathāstu=be it so

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