Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother

12 November 1937

Mother,

I have received a letter from my brother H. He writes among other things: “There is too much intellectualism in Cambridge. Men worship the intellect as if it were a deity; and there is too much desire in everyone to be as busy as possible, without stopping to reflect on what the whole business is about. For the moment I have to throw in my lot with them and I am naturally influenced by the busy life around me and the intellectual pursuits. The greatest consequence, about which I am worried, is that I feel that I am very far away from the Mother and Sri Aurobindo. I shall indeed be very grateful if you will ask Mother on my behalf to help me to overcome this feeling and also to enable me to be in touch with her.

“There is another point. For the last eight days I am having a somewhat persistent pain in the lower part of the bone above the heel of my left foot. The difficulty is that every shoe I wear touches this painful spot and so whenever I go out I feel its presence acutely. I shall be very grateful to Mother if she will kindly help me to remove it.”

Please give me some message to send H.

What to say about H except that the pain in his foot is the result of the bad climate just as the lack of contact with Sri Aurobindo and myself is the result of uncongenial surroundings . . .

12 November 1937