Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1936

Letter ID: 1665

Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar

July 3, 1936

For N – shall we try olive oil?

What for olive oil?

For his stomach-ache and constipation etc., yeast can be tried. It has been found very good in some cases.

Yeast ought to do him good, as he complains of weakness. You can have a try, before we plunge in R who is struggling with a difficult case just now. But I am afraid in N’s body there is something that does not want to cure, for it finds itself more miserably interesting with constipation, ache and sciatica than without it.

I send you Nishikanta’s version of my Bengali poem. He has tried to keep as far as possible my words, but even then it can hardly be called mine.

My God! he has pummelled you into pieces and thrown away all but a few shreds. No, you can’t call it yours. Perhaps you can label it, “Nirod after being devoured, assimilated and eliminated by Nishikanta.”

Nishikanta has written so much that you can’t do without tumbling into his influence.

Your own version, if it takes things from NK is still not NK but yourself.