Sri Aurobindo
The Mother

to Prithwi Singh

Correspondence (1933-1967)

Undated (1934?)

Prithwi Singh — Sri Aurobindo

... The fact is that all my life I have used medicines very occasionally and I would like to rely on your help cooperating with it by strongly putting my will for the throwing up of this chronic illness from the system. But if you think that this reluctance is due to some pride in the nature or undesirable please tell me so and I shall certainly obey you.

I feel deep joy to be here but this joy demands an effort to throw out all the lower clingings of the animal human nature. I am sincerely trying to do it and I again humbly pray for your help.

You are quite right in your objection to going to the doctors.

For the sex you have taken the right attitude and the necessary control is coming and is bound to grow. If there is still persistence, you should not feel dejected, for it is the nature of this impulse to persist and struggle for survival; but with perseverance it will be mastered.

Sri Aurobindo
Undated (1934?)