Nirodbaran

Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo

Second Series

3. Matters Medical

Cases of Poisoning (II)

X, in a disturbed condition of mind, drank something injurious under the misapprehension that his ailment would be cured if he did so.

If he did do it with such an idea, it is evidently a suggestion of the hostile force, or if you like to put it more psychologically, he was possessed by a mental fixation of an irrational undetermined character. It is of the same class as the ideas which get hold of people's minds and become “fixed ideas”, only these are momentary. But even if he did it by mistake, it was a suggestion from a source that wanted to do him injury and took advantage of a momentary “absence of mind.”