Sri Aurobindo
The Mother
to Prithwi Singh
Correspondence (1933-1967)
12 June 1953
Prithwi Singh — Mother
(A letter from Prithwi Singh to Mother)
In course of my interview with the Mother which she had graciously given me on the 3rd [Prithwi Singh's birthday], I spoke to her of an experience a few days before the passing of Sri Aurobindo. In a dream vision a Message had come from him which thrilled me to the depths as I read it and whose last sentence still rings clear in my heart: “I am going down, but I am soon coming up in a radiant form.” The statement was clear and precise in the light of what happened afterwards, but I had understood nothing of its significance at the time.
The Mother heard it attentively and when I asked her if I could take it that the Master's return is certain, she revealed to me the following wonderful happening. I note it down in her own words as far as I remember. She said:
“At 1:26 in the morning1 when I was in his room, he was steadily coming out of his body into mine; it was so much that I felt a physical friction in the cells of my body; with it a great power entered into me and I felt capable of resuscitating him. But when I told him, he said, ‘No. It is purposely that I have left my body, I will not come back into it, I will return in a new body, the first body built in the supramental way.’ ”
And she hastened to add: “But he did not tell me the time when he would return.”
Then I told her: “Certainly you know the time, Mother, but if I were to ask you would not say it and I know it is good not to ask.”
She smiled sweetly.
I am sending you the corrected version — but it is for yourself alone and not to be shown to others.
With my love and blessings
Mother
12 June 1953
1 On December 5, 1950.