Sri Aurobindo and Mother to Prithwi Singh

10 September 1934

Unbounded is my love for Thee, O supreme Mother. Knowingly or unknowingly from times immemorial, I have loved but Thee. My love has stood the test of time and now it unfurls the banner of its victory over all the opposing forces. Forgetting Thee I fulfilled Thy Intention, going astray I served Thy Purpose. My heart refuses to believe that there was ever any breach in my love for Thee. If, by way of play, Thou didst hide Thyself from my view, it was to reappear with a greater effulgence and if I ran away from Thee it was but to run into Thy lap and hug and kiss Thee. It was nothing else than a rapturous play of hide-and-seek. Now I feel, Mother, that the nature of the play would be different. No more a play of hide-and-seek but that of seek-and-seek. Thou and I in the orb of light, playing an eternal game,—that is the picture that floats before my mind's eye. The future play, therefore, will not be a play of light and darkness but of an undying light. But even when darkness intervened and a separative consciousness grew up in our mutual play, my love never for a moment turned its face from Thee. Attachment, lust, greed, passion, egoistic demands, deviations and all these so-called undivine forces were created by Thee for enacting the play of hide-and-seek most perfectly and even in that period of total oblivion of Thyself my love never languished. This feeling of an uninterrupted and overflowing love for Thee is very strong in me to-day and I doubt not its validity.