Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

3. The Mother and the Practice of the Integral Yoga

Fragment ID: 19403

X writes that her hip-joint pain is gone and wants me to thank the Mother for removing it. She calculates that her first letter to me mentioning the pain must have reached me on Thursday and her hip pain almost vanished miraculously at eight in the evening that day. But I did not write to the Mother about X’s complaint until Friday. Could it be that when X’s letter entered the Ashram atmosphere a response came?

Y spoke to the Mother about X’s pain on the same day – so it is not necessary to suppose an automatic effect of the letter itself. But such an automatic effect does often take place either immediately after writing or when the letter enters the Mother’s atmosphere.

17 April 1936