Sri Aurobindo
The Mother

to Prithwi Singh

Correspondence (1933-1967)

23 September 1964

Prithwi Singh — Mother

Ma douce Mère,

I would like to know about one thing.

It is said that a man has five sheaths or vehicles. The physical sheath falls away at the time of death. The vital and the mental get dissolved when the soul arrives at last at the psychic plane of rest where, in a trance sleep, it assimilates its experiences of past lives for a future birth. Now what happens with regard to the causal body — supramental + bliss vehicles? Perhaps they are not dissolved but do they detach themselves from the soul to join with it in its next birth or, as a cause it is always there, even in the psychic world, so long as the individual retains his individuality and does not lose himself in the transcendence or in Nirvana?

I would like to know, Mother, about this thing.

With deep devotion and pranams at Thy Feet.

Prithwi Singh

Alas! as yet there is no supramental body formed! This has still to be realised.

Mother
23 September 1964