Sri Aurobindo
The Mother

to Prithwi Singh

Correspondence (1933-1967)

9 June 1957

Prithwi Singh — Mother

Ma douce Mère,

I wanted to ask about two things:

Last time when I was with you upstairs on my birthday [3^rd June], there was a feeling as if time was not there. Not the experience of timelessness in the spiritual sense, but just a feeling that only I and You were there, and nothing and nobody else existed.

[Mother underlined the last part of this sentence, and added:] It is exactly the experience I wanted you to have. I am glad for your receptivity.

Just for a few seconds, but an entirely new experience. I suppose it may be due to exclusive concentration on me at the time. But I don't know. And in the evening at the Playground it was not so.

Another thing is about an experience I had on three occasions during meditation on the Playground. After some half-sleep unconscious state, suddenly as the consciousness became fully awake and alert, there was an exquisitely fine feeling or rather acute perception that every cell of the body was throbbing with a Force of Light in a vibrant stillness of the whole being. It was different from the experience of total silence I once had. It was, though lasting for a minute or two at the most, an awareness for the first time of the innumerable cells of the body and the action of your Force in them, pouring in them a stillness so luminous and thrilling that words cannot describe it. What was it, Mother?

[Mother underlined this part of the sentence also, and wrote:] It is the experience I am giving during the meditation. So this also is quite correct and I am glad you were conscious of it.

With my love and blessings

Mother
9 June 1957