{"id":796,"date":"2013-07-13T01:30:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=796"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:30:28","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:30:28","slug":"75-letter-to-his-sister-vol-27-supplement-volume-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/27-supplement-volume-27\/75-letter-to-his-sister-vol-27-supplement-volume-27","title":{"rendered":"-75_Letter to his Sister.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\t\t
\nLetter to his
\nSister<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n

\n                                                                                              
\n                      <\/span>  <\/span>Baroda
\nCamp <\/p>\n

\n                                                                                                           
\n<\/span>25th August<\/span>,<\/span>
\n1894<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

My dear Saro,<\/p>\n

       <\/span>
\n<\/span>I got your letter the day before yesterday. I have been trying hard to
\nwrite to you for the last three weeks, but have hitherto failed. Today I am
\nmaking a huge effort and hope to put the letter in the post before nightfall. As
\nI am now invigorated by three days’ leave, I almost think I shall succeed.
\n        <\/span>It will be, I fear, quite impossible to come to you again so early
\nas the Puja, though if I only could, I should start tomorrow. Neither my
\naffairs, nor my finances will admit of it. Indeed it was a great mistake for me
\nto go at all; for it has made Baroda quite intolerable to me. There is an old
\nstory about Judas Iscariot, which suits me down to the ground. Judas, after
\nbetraying Christ, hanged himself and went to Hell where he was honoured with the
\nhottest oven in the whole establishment. Here he must burn for ever and ever;
\nbut in his life he had done one kind act and for this they permitted him by
\nspecial mercy of God to cool himself for an hour every Christmas on an iceberg
\nin the North Pole. Now this has always seemed to me not mercy, but a peculiar
\nrefinement of cruelty. For how could Hell fail to be ten times more Hell to the
\npoor wretch after the delicious coolness of his iceberg? I do not know for what
\nenormous crime I have been condemned to Baroda, but my case is just parallel.
\nSince my pleasant sojourn with you at Baidyanath, Baroda seems a hundred times
\nmore Baroda.
\n        <\/span>I dare say Beno may write to you three or four days before he leaves
\nEngland. But you must think yourself lucky if he does as much as that. Most
\nlikely the first you hear of him will be a telegram from’ Calcutta. Certainly he
\nhas not written to me. I never expected and should be afraid to get a letter. It
\nwould be such a shocking surprise that I should certainly be able to do nothing
\nbut roll on the floor and gasp for breath for the next two<\/font>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

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or three hours.
\nNo, the favours of the Gods are too awful<\/span>
\n<\/span>to be coveted.
\nI dare say he will have energy enough to hand over your letter
\nto <\/span> Mano as they must be seeing
\neach other almost daily.<\/span>
\n<\/span>You must give Mano a little time before he
\nanswers you. He too is Beno’s brother. Please let me have Beno’s address as I
\ndon’t know where to send a letter I have ready for him. Will you also let me
\nhave the name of Bari’s English Composition Book and its compiler? I want such a
\nbook badly, as this will be useful for me not only in Bengalee but in Gujerati.
\nThere are no convenient books like that here.
\n                  
\n<\/span>You say in your letter "all here are quite well"; yet in the <\/font>
\nvery<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/span>next sentence I
\nread "Bari has an attack of fever". Do you <\/span>mean
\nthen that Bari is nobody? Poor Bari! That he should be excluded from the list of
\nhuman beings is only right and proper, but it is a little hard that he should be
\ndenied existence altogether. I hope it is only a slight attack. I am quite well.
\nI have brought a fund of health with me from Bengal, which, I hope it will take
\nme some time to exhaust; but I have just passed my twenty-second milestone,
\nAugust 15 last, since my birthday and am
\nbeginning
\nto get dreadfully old. <\/span>.
\n                   
\n<\/span><\/span>I infer from your letter that you
\nare making great progress in English. I hope you will learn very quickly; I can
\nthen write to you quite what I want to say and just in the way I want to say it.
\nI feel some difficulty in doing that now and I don’t know whether you will
\nunderstand it.
\nWith love,<\/p>\n

                                                                                        
\n<\/span>Your affectionate brother,<\/font><\/p>\n

                                                                                                               
\n`          Auro<\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n


\nP. S. If you want to understand the new orthography of my name, ask uncle.<\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

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