Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

5. On Three Works of the Mother

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In Entretiens the Mother says: “Même ceux qui ont la volonté de s’enfuir [du monde], quand ils arrivent de l’autre côté, peuvent trouver que la fuite ne sert pas à grand-chose après tout” [p. 28]. What does “arrivent de l’autre côté” mean? Does it mean “when they come into this world” or “when they go into the world of silence which they realised”?

No – “arrivent de l’autre côté” simply means “when they die”. What Mother intended was that when they actually arrive at their Nirvana they find it is not the ultimate solution or largest realisation of the Supreme and they must eventually come back and have their share of the world action to reach that largest realisation.

2 May 1935