The photographs are too small and vague. Still Mother will look at them most carefully to find if anything can be seen.Sri Aurobindo
The Mother
to Prithwi Singh
Correspondence (1933-1967)
8 November 1934
Prithwi Singh — Sri Aurobindo
Mother,
I have just received photos of my children. ...As the boys except the eldest are at Santiniketan they have done the photographing themselves — hence this poor result.
The photographs are too small and vague. Still Mother will look at them most carefully to find if anything can be seen.
Along with the photographs I got a letter from my brother that leaves me astonished at the audacity of relatives. My wife died just two years back on the “bijaya dasami” day and neither I nor any of our children had ever seen her “ghost”1.... I do not believe either in “pinda”2 and such rubbish unspiritual things that pass by the name of religion. I am intending to write a particularly strong letter and give these fellows a bit of my mind, but I should very much like to know from you, Mother, about the truth of these matters.
Of course, it is all nonsense.
Sri Aurobindo
8 November 1934
1 Here, Prithwi Singh relates how his wife's “ghost” is supposed to have manifested in a relative of his.
2 The symbolic food offered to a departed person in certain funeral and memorial rites.