Nirodbaran

Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo

Second Series

1. Spirituality

Inner Sight and Hearing (IV)

About the snake you saw in your meditation – serpents indicate always energies of Nature and very often bad energies of the vital plane; but they can also indicate luminous or divine energies like the Snake of Vishnu. The one you saw was evidently of this latter type – a luminous divine energy and therefore there was no cause for alarm, it was a good sign.