Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1937

Letter ID: 1960

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

June 4, 1937

[Question by J:] P says that he is going to write an article on “the only vernacular epic”, Tulsi Ramayan in Hindi. But Meghnadbodh is an epic too in a vernacular. How can he say then that Tulsi Ramayan is the only one? Won’t it be wrong to write like that publicly?

Of course, it is a wrong idea. There is not only Meghnadbodh but Kamban’s Ramayan in Tamil – But I suppose P knows neither Bengali nor Tamil.

I don’t know the cause of Y’s sudden diarrhoea. He took something at Mrs. S’s place, or D.R. mango?

Perhaps. I don’t know. He speaks only of oranges as diet after attack, but he wrote some days ago about [...]¹ things. He is asking for green cocoanuts two a day. Mother says green cocoa-nuts can have a laxative, even a purgative effect. What do you say?

This morning, at 4.30 a.m., while returning after urination, K fell down unconscious with froth at the corner of the mouth. At 6.30, he was complaining of terrible frontal headache... He says he concentrated in bed for 20 minutes, before going for urination, quite conscious throughout. He remembers nothing about the fall nor my visit to him, but he answered all my questions quite well.

There is nothing wrong in the system. We must eliminate the possibility of the Force as a cause, since he was consciously meditating, he says, before getting up. I have heard of A falling down once while meditating in standing position.

No previous history of epilepsy.

[No reply.]

¹ Illegible words.

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