Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
4. The Mother in the Life of the Ashram
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Why does the Mother wear rich and beautiful clothes?
Beauty is as much an expression of the Divine as Knowledge, Power or Ananda. Does anyone ask why does the Mother want to manifest the divine consciousness by knowledge or by power and not by ignorance and weakness?1 It would not be a more absurd or meaningless question than this one put by the vital against wearing artistic and beautiful dress.
27 February 1933
1 The Mother also replied to this question. She wrote: “Is it your idea that the Divine should be represented on earth by poverty and ugliness?” – Ed.