Sri Aurobindo and Mother to Prithwi Singh

29 October 1965

(Prithwi Singh wrote to Mother the substance of what he had heard about her statement on the comet Ikeya-Seki and prayed to her to correct it if it was not quite all right. Mother very graciously made corrections and additions and remarked:)

It is not quite correct and difficult to make all right. This is an approximation.

Blessings

Mother

(A second time Mother again corrected the text he sent. But she also added a word of caution.)

This is fairly correct although incomplete, but it is better to withdraw it from circulation and to stop making it an object of gossip.

Mother

(But Mother got fed up when a third time he sent Udar's text—supposedly corrected by Mother— and also what he had heard from Amal. Mother crossed out a part of the former; and crossing out heavily the entire text of the latter, she wrote in the margin: "fanciful expression." Then she added:)

Both are hopelessly distorted and not at all what I have said.

Mother

(And finally Mother burst out:)

I wish that all these copies distorting ridiculously an interesting experience should be withdrawn from circulation and replaced by a quiet silence which is the only proper attitude.

Mother