Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

1. The Mother: Individual, Universal, Transcendent

Fragment ID: 18933

The reason why I want to know the year of the Mother’s birth is, for the moment, only a certain curiosity, though there may be something deeper behind.

Curiosity is hardly a proper motive – people ask these things because they want to gossip about the Mother as about all things and in the same spirit. It is this constant action from the lower human motives of the ordinary consciousness which keeps people from living within and prevents the transformation of the physical nature.

22 February 1934