Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Kamala’s Correspondence with
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother

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Sri Aurobindo — Kamala Amin

August 24, 1933

Mother,

I saw the following dream two days back.

I along with two or three ladies had gone to the beach for a stroll. Suddenly, I started going straight up into the sky, higher and higher. At first, I was wondering as to what may happen to me, but soon this thought disappeared. After going up about one mile, I thought whether Bhagirath would have gone as high to bring down the Ganga on the earth. At that height, I found that the atmosphere was quite different and very pleasant. I saw golden light around me. The other ladies with me started screaming and said that Kamu vanished somewhere. When I looked down from that height, I saw the sea beneath and felt that in case I fell down I would be drowned. But after sometime I gradually returned safely to the earth. But this was a little away from the place from where I had gone up. Afterwards my eyes opened. Mother, does this mean anything?

The sea was the sea of the vital consciousness by which men ordinarily live. The stairs are the stairs of sadhana by which one tries to ascend to the Divine Truth – on these you were able to climb up through the Mind till you were able to see the golden Light of the Divine Truth. When you came down from this glimpse to the ordinary consciousness you found that even in the ordinary you had reached a higher level than before – a level above the vital nature.

Sri Aurobindo