Hindu Medicine c5.s1.18

c5.s1.18

For four years I had the good fortune of living in the same town with Zimmer, and of staying at the same university. After that time—between 1928 and 1933—I saw him but rarely, on his occasional trips to Berlin or whenever I returned to Heidelberg for a visit. At such meetings everything was as it had been before; he was a faithful friend; whether one saw him regularly or not, his attachment to one did not change. His work in these years grew steadily. More settled and a trifle less unconventional since he had married—we used to say jokingly that he was now a tamed bear, but a bear nevertheless—he published book after book, article after article. His insight into Hindu art, philosophy, religion, poetry, deepened. The secret of India was captured in a language quite his own, and through his interpretation a past and a present