Sri Aurobindo and Mother to Prithwi Singh

12 June 1953

(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 J, 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 morning⁷² 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