Nirodbaran

Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo

Second Series

3. Matters Medical

The Doctor and the Divine Force (I)

I still can't understand why you should bother to follow us doctors. The Divine can very easily  act from the supramental consciousness directly; you don't really need a diagnosis given by ordinary men!

If things were like that, why the devil should we have Doctors or a dispensary at all? And what would have been the use of your 20,000? We don't propose to do the whole business of the inside and outside off our own bat. You are as necessary for this as Chandulal for the building or others for their work.

Who told you we are acting from supramental consciousness? We are not and cannot until the confounded quarrel with Matter is settled.

If we doctors are important as mediums, you must tell me what our attitude should be in conducting a case.

Faith, openness, an alert and flexible intelligence. I mean by faith especially faith as a dynamic means of bringing about what has to be effected or realised.

01.02.1935