Nirodbaran. Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo: Second Series. 3. Matters Medical. Medical Notes

Section One. Spirituality
Understanding the Supermind
You won't say anything about the Supramental...	17-04-1937
Your Supermind business baffles our understanding...	26-06-1938
Supramentalisation and the Conquest of Death
I find that there is a change of views on your part about the Supermind's descent...	09-10-1936
If the Supermind descends into you...	14-10-1936
Sadhana
It is quite right and part of the right consciousness...
Aspire to realisation, but do not be over-eager
It is the soul, the psychic being in you
All things are the Divine
It is exactly a year and a half since...
The two feelings are both of them right...	28-09-1936
Inner Sight and Hearing
The world you see is in some subtle physical plane...	(?)
The sounds or voices you hear...	(?)
Nishikanto has written a poem...	14-01-1936
Whilst I was having a nap...	20-12-1935
About the snake you saw...	(?)
Spiritual Experiences
Outside the Body Consciousness	(?)
Wideness	(?)
Wideness	(?)
Wideness	(?)
Ananda	(?)
Ananda	(?)
Ananda	(?)
Knowledge and Love	(?)
The Descent of the Force	(?)
August Darshan	(?)
August Darshan	(?)
November Darshan	(?)
Presences and Forms	28-10-1936
Presences and Forms	26-03-1937
Spiritual Experiences and Human Defects	14-11-1936
Spiritual Experiences and Human Defects	19-11-1936
Spiritual Experiences and Human Defects	21-11-1936
Spiritual Experiences and Human Defects	28-11-1936
Love for the Divine and Experience of the Divine	14-03-1936
Brahman Consciousness	18-07-1937
The Vital Plane	04-03-1935
The Vital Plane	26-08-1936
Meditation
Right Meditation	(?)
Meditation and Work	(?)
Meditation and Sleep	(?)
Meditation and Sleep	(?)
The Inner Being and the Surface Consciousness	(?)
The Inner Being and the Surface Consciousness (Durga)	(?)
The Ashram and its Yoga
Yogic Ups and Downs	(?)
Yogic Ups and Downs	02-04-1937
Yogic Ups and Downs	11-04-1937
Yogic Ups and Downs	25-06-1937
The true Way of Yoga	19-05-1936
The true Way of Yoga	11-03-1937
Views about Yoga	(?)
The Ashram's “Prestige” – Praise and Blame	30-06-1938
The Ashram's “Prestige” – Praise and Blame	(?)
The Ashram's “Prestige” – Praise and Blame	(?)
The Ashram's “Prestige” – Praise and Blame	(?)
Departures from the Ashram	02-09-1935
Departures from the Ashram	21-04-1937
"Big Men" and the Ashram's Spiritual Work	(?)
Yogic Guidance
The outer guidance is meant...	(?)
I want you to be open and in contact...	(?)
There is nothing peculiar about retrogression...	05-08-1936
Cheerfulness is the salt of the sadhana...	(?)
Tell me, if I pray for peace...	21-08-1936
I am trying to be silent within,...	(?)
You are quite right in taking...	(?)
The stream which you feel...	(?)
As for the other matter...	(?)
The absence of thought...	(?)
Rishi and Yogi
Would you call X a Rishi?	09-02-1936
A Rishi is one who sees or discovers	11-02-1936
The Mother's Action
The Mother appears to be reducing her physical contact with us.	22-04-1933
X seems to think that the Mother is harder than you.	11-03-1937
We are told the Mother can act best	21-04-1937
Is it true that physical work opens one more...	10-07-1936
Spiritual Force and Other Forces
As to Force let me point out a few elementary notions...	(?)
If it [the latent medico] were there...	(?)
One can feel it [Force] in the same way...	(?)
If I have knowledge of the play of the forces...	02-09-1935
Do you think the Yogic Force will enable...	02-10-1935
I tried hard to write a poem...	21-06-1936
When we were discussing a certain Spanish General...	17-04-1937
Human Relationships
Human Affection	(?)
Personal Relations in the Spiritual Life	23-06-1936
Personal Relations in the Spiritual Life	26-10-1936
Personal Relations in the Spiritual Life	03-05-1938
Spiritual Gurus and Marriage	27-04-1936
Problems of Harmonisation	(?)
Problems of Harmonisation	04-06-1936
Problems of Harmonisation	05-12-1935
Problems of Harmonisation	06-12-1935
Animal-sacrifice, Self-sacrifice, Spiritual Sacrifice
Is there any truth behind animal sacrifices to Kali?	04-10-1935
Self-sacrifice for the country's sake...	17-10-1935
Sacrifice depends on the inner attitude...	12-07-1937
Seeking for Happiness
I wrote some time back that behind any difficult...	09-02-1936
You have hit me well by asking...	11-02-1936
The Man of Sorrows
I. Human Life and Suffering	(?)
II. Difficulties and Despair	11-05-1933
II. Difficulties and Despair	12-05-1933
II. Difficulties and Despair	28-05-1933
II. Difficulties and Despair	30-12-1933
II. Difficulties and Despair	10-05-1934
II. Difficulties and Despair	09-06-1934
II. Difficulties and Despair	15-10-1934
II. Difficulties and Despair	24-10-1934
III. Despair and Commonsense	23-02-1935
IV. Depression and Yoga	(?)
IV. Depression and Yoga	19-06-1935
IV. Depression and Yoga	20-06-1935
IV. Depression and Yoga	13-09-1935
IV. Depression and Yoga	14-09-1935
IV. Depression and Yoga	01-10-1935
IV. Depression and Yoga	25-12-1935
IV. Depression and Yoga	21-07-1937
V. Jeremiads and the Divine Force	20-01-1936
V. Jeremiads and the Divine Force	21-01-1936
V. Jeremiads and the Divine Force	21-04-1936
V. Jeremiads and the Divine Force	24-04-1936
V. Jeremiads and the Divine Force	24-01-1936
V. Jeremiads and the Divine Force	02-06-1936
V. Jeremiads and the Divine Force	03-06-1936
V. Jeremiads and the Divine Force	04-06-1936
V. Jeremiads and the Divine Force	14-06-1936
V. Jeremiads and the Divine Force	08-01-1937
"Blue Moon"	25-12-1935

Section two. Art and Literature
Which art is the greatest?
There has been often a discussion...	(?)
I don't understand at all, Sir...	06-01-1936
Literary Activity and Yoga
have been thinking whether I would not profit...	14-05-1934
To be a literary man is not a spiritual aim...	(?)
There should be no “desire” to be a “great” writer	(?)
What is written for X is not meant for you	17-08-1934
In some cases you don't seem to like people to be engrossed...	22-05-1934
I have such a push to write poetry...	(?)
X says: “If you want to publish your literary work...	24-07-1936
When you bring in the examples of Milton...	05-08-1936
If you want to understand my supramental “brevities”...	19-09-1936
Some people have the trick of always opening to a Force	(?)
One should be acquainted with the best literature	(?)
Poetic Inspiration and Yoga
Need one aspire even for writing poetry?	10-05-1934
For some time past the inspiration has stopped	08-06-1934
We feel that your Force gives us the necessary inspiration	12-06-1935
A.K.'s poetry has caused a flutter.	03-03-1936
You ask me why I don't keep my inner condition right	04-03-1936
As regards poetry, inspiration exists, so also effort	06-03-1936
You actually propose “Laugh and grow fat”	09-03-1936
Is effort without demand of result possible	09-03-1936
I am obliged to sleep out for a few days	25-03-1936
My hard labour and effort deprive me of the joy...	29-03-1936
In regard to writing poetry, not only is my vital lazy...	31-03-1936
I am sending you a poem.	04-04-1936
In one letter you spoke of fictitious stresses	25-04-1936
Have I any strand of yogic seeking in me?	28-07-1936
Writing poetry as a result of yoga ought to spiritualise one	08-08-1936
I am satisfied with the answers exposing the symptoms	09-08-1936
I can try to call down the Mother's force	18-08-1936
While X and others receive your Force for poetry	18-09-1936
Lawrence says one can only write creative stuff	10-11-1936
We may have progressed in literature	11-11-1936
Amal says Cousins ignored your poem “Rishi”	13-11-1936
You have suddenly reached a remarkable maturity	07-08-1936
The sameness does not matter much.	24-08-1938
What the deuce are you complaining about?	07-09-1938
Indians and the Writing of English Poetry	27-02-1936
Joy and the Writing of Poetry	14-12-1936
Mystic Poetry
Meaning and Intellectual Understanding	(?)
Meaning and Intellectual Understanding	04-12-1936
Meaning and Intellectual Understanding	08-12-1936
Imagination and Experience in Poetry	27-05-1936
Imagination and Experience in Poetry	27-05-1936
Surrealist Poetry
I don't know what this is driving at.	17-01-1937
I am a little disappointed	17-01-1937
Could you say something about Nirodbaran's poetry?	12-02-1937
Mallarme	(?)
Sameness in Spiritual Poetry	25-05-1938
Overhead Poetry	(?)
"Savitri"	29-03-1936
Rhythmical Overtones and Undertones	11-05-1937
Poetic Qualities
My life is veiled in a sleep of light,	30-03-1938
About yesterday's poem...	31-03-1938
You call this line...	02-09-1938
I am afraid the language of your appreciations...	03-11-1938
Sonnet	22-02-1936
Iambics, Anapaests, Trochees
What on earth do you mean?	10-12-1935
Trochees are perfectly admissible	22-12-1935
One more poem	16-02-1936
Imperfect Rhymes	19-12-1935
Modes and Varieties of Poetic Creation
I like your poem very much.	05-06-1935
It is proposed to include me in an Ashram Anthology	24-08-1935
I have been plodding at a poem	08-12-1935
X's poetry is more mental.	13-02-1936
One can't make rigid rules like that.	21-12-1935
When J was asked to compose songs...	23-08-1936
A poem for you.	07-06-1936
How do you find the poem	23-08-1936
Yes, the mind is used as a medium.	(?)
I was not at all speaking of the world...	31-03-1936

Section three. Matters Medical
The Doctor and the Divine Force
I was under the impression that you	(?)
I am sending you a diagnosis	28-01-1935 / 31-01-1935
I still can't understand why you	01-02-1935
What is this “confounded quarrel with Matter”...	02-02-1935
I hear that plenty of forces come	(?)
Illness: its Entry and its Prevention
We all believe that as soon as you read our letters	(?)
It seems that people are now depending	09-10-1936
The Doctor
The Doctor as Patient: Two Personalities	(?)
The Successful Doctor	(?)
The Transformation of Sex Energy	03-12-1935
Medicine as Science
When a medicine is a specific...	04-01-1936
Medicine is not exactly science	(?)
But our allopathic medicine...	(?)
In fact, much of our knowledge originates...	(?)
Cases of Poisoning
Our “poisoned” patient has...	25-02-1935
It would be better if he stopped taking...	26-05-1935
I am sending you an account of Mithridates...	27-02-1935
X, in a disturbed condition of mind...	(?)
Sri Aurobindo and Illness
It is long since I have had anything but slight fragments...	26-03-1935
It may be “policeman's disease” as the French call it	(?)
Medicines and the Mother's Body	01-02-1937
Medicines, Prognostications, Consoling Medical Words	01-02-1937
Experiment, Experience, Knowledge, Intuition, Inspiration
There is a vegetable called “bubble and squeak.”	06-04-1937
I did not flare up	10-04-1937
Mother told me to practise the intuitive method	10-04-1937
Your idea is that either I must inspire...	28-04-1937
Practise and learn, learn and practise.	03-10-1935
Vaccination
Haven't denied partial effectivity though complete it is not...	14-04-1937
Amrita was to have offered himself as a victim...	28-04-1937
You don't know the story of Pavitra and Khitish...	29-04-1937
Variable Cure and Absolute Cure	16-04-1938
Cancer Cure by Yoga	11-10-1935
Homeopathy
How can homeopathy cure diseases...	23-12-1935 / 26-12-1935
While crushing my rigid mind...	28-12-1935
The Force needs an instrument...	(?)
Have you asked R his opinion...	20-03-1937
Tumour, syphilis etc. are...	03-1937(?)
I see there is something in his treatment...	(?)
To bring out the latent illness...	(?)
I have put down a few comments...	(?)
Medical Notes
Well, Sir, you have made people believe...	17-10-1936
A descent cannot possibly produce nausea...	18-10-1936
I dreamt that the Mother is building...	19-07-1937
I find that as a result of your Force	14-03-1937
Miracles can be done, but there is no reason...	30-03-1937
It is no use discussing these matters.	04-04-1937
All “science” does not recommend castor oil for...	09-04-1937
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