Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 1. 1935
Letter ID: 1369
Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar
July 5, 1935
Apropos of X’s tactics you have said: “The eternal feminine? Terribly so – but that is not the Real Woman.”1 Who is the Real Woman, please? Anyone here?
I was not referring to anyone in particular but to the element in woman which is simple, straightforward, faithful, sympathetic – without the twist in it. I don’t mean anything very high, but something straight and unspoiled and clear.
N has been suffering long from Sciatica and it is getting acute – he has to remain in bed. Go and see what can be done to get rid of the attack. He did not want to be treated, but it is getting to be too much of a bad thing.
1 Reference to an unpublished letter.