Nirodbaran

Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo

Second Series

3. Matters Medical

Medical Notes

I dreamt that the Mother is building a very big hospital. Dream of a millennium in advance?

It would be more of a millennium if there were no need of a hospital at all and the doctors turned their injective prodding instruments into fountain pens – provided of course they did not make misuse of the pens also.

Why furious about injective instruments, sir? They are supposed to be very effective.

That does not make an increase of hospitals, illnesses and injections the ideal of a millennium.

But why the deuce are those instruments to be replaced by fountain pens?

I was simply adopting the saying of Isaiah the prophet, “the swords will be turned into ploughshares”, but the doctor's instrument is not big enough for a ploughshare, so I substituted fountain pen.

19.07.1937