Sri Aurobindo
The Mother
to Prithwi Singh
Correspondence (1933-1967)
22 January 1937
Prithwi Singh — Sri Aurobindo
... I should like to know Mother what is exactly meant by Timeless-Spaceless Eternal....
In the Eternal, there are neither Time nor Space — is it because the Eternal is present in all Time and extended in all Space in an inseparable indivisible unity?
Then, is there any difference between “beyond Time and Space” and Timeless-Spaceless? Or they are simply different modes of saying the same thing?
With deep devotion
Prithwisingh
1Time and Space are not limited, they are infinite — they are the terms of an extension of consciousness in which things take place or are arranged in a certain relation, succession, order. There are again different orders of Time and Space; that too depends on the consciousness. The Eternal is extended in Time and Space, but he is also beyond all Time and Space. Timelessness and Time are two terms of the eternal existence. The Spaceless Eternal is not one indivisible infinity of Space, there is in it no near or far, no here or there — the Timeless Eternal is not measurable by years or hours or aeons, the experience of it has been described as the eternal moment. But for the mind this state cannot be described except by negatives, — one has to go beyond and to realise it.
Sri Aurobindo
22 January 1937