Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 4

Letter ID: 1079

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

May 7, 1950

There would be nothing impossible in Mirabai manifesting in this way through the agency of Indira’s trance, provided she is still sufficiently in touch with this world to accompany Krishna where he manifests and in that case there would be no impossibility, either in her taking the part she did in Indira’s vision of her and her action. If Indira wrote in an old Hindi with which she was not ordinarily familiar or in which she was not used to write and it was under the influence of Mirabai that would be a fairly strong evidence of the reality of Mirabai’s presence and influence on her. If Mirabai was actually present her choosing the song presents no difficulty and Indira’s not knowing about it would not prevent that happening. If Mirabai was merely an image in Indira’s mind of trance, then it will be different; but even if she was not actually present, Indira and her trance might have drawn from Mirabai’s personality which we must still suppose to be existing in Krishna’s world a living figure and power of her which produced these phenomena. This is less probable, but it is just possible.