Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 1. 1935
Letter ID: 1278
Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar
March 5, 1935
You discover it too late, Sir! No escape now but to drag us, the ignorant fools, and it is for this very reason I was protesting that fools can’t do what Avatars can. However!!
Well, they can, if they stop being fools. However!!!
Can you enlighten me how “... its happenings have sometimes a great effect on this world”? I have a personal interest too.
The physical world is only a last field in which not only the physical forces but those of other worlds also throw themselves for realisation. Whatever happens here has already been prepared or foreshadowed in the vital; it does not happen exactly as represented in the vital, but with a change suitable for the material world. But this is a big subject – can’t be dealt with tonight.
And can’t you be a little more explicit and precise about that writing on the forehead? Something impure that has to come up? We usually associate the vital with impurity.
Why the Apollyon1 do you suppose that all vital things are impure? The vital has strength, ardour, enthusiasm, self-confidence, generosity, the victor spirit – a host of other very necessary things. The only difficulty is that they get mixed up with others that are impure. All the same they are there and much needed.
What is this “something fixed in the vital”? If anything impure is to happen, to be forewarned is to be forearmed. Besides, I am not afraid of anything since that memorable “never” of yours.
Great Muggins, man! What a mess you have made of my explanation! I meant that by writing on your forehead the Mother had fixed something in you on the vital plane. That something, which she has fixed, will in time come out, manifest, be produced, born, fulfilled in this (slightly obtuse) physical consciousness of yours on this material plane. Produce itself out of latency like the sainthood in Muthu – see? Why on earth should the Mother write something impure on your forehead? Something good of course – something meaning to be there – something of your spiritual future, realisation kind of affair – what? If you echo me and ask “What? what?” I can’t tell you – No data in the dream and as a conscientious scientific person I refuse to interpret without data.
Here is another dream: we were all sitting in the Pranam Hall, in the morning, when the Mother came down smiling 
and began to look around. There seemed to be many invisible presences – I felt Christ was there too. Then she sat down and a blazing ray of blue light was focussed on her from somewhere. Her appearance became marvellous. This gave me immense joy.
Well, you are beginning to have very good dream-experiences on the vital plane – very beautiful and true. That is something. But I wonder what Christ was doing there? Perhaps he came to be converted from his “gospel of sorrow” – but that would be the Christian Christ, not the real one.
1 The devil.