Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Kamala’s Correspondence with
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother

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Sri Aurobindo — Kamala Amin

November 7, 1932

Mother,

It was early morning between 5.30 to 5.45 a.m. I was standing with Champaklal in the corner of his terrace ladder. There was one high wall near the door of the Rosary House which is in the courtyard of the Library House. There was something like a terrace. On that, there were beautiful green crotons; Sri Aurobindo came near the wall from the new room and the Mother also followed him. I told Champaklal that Sri Aurobindo and the Mother had come there. Sri Aurobindo started drawing a string swiftly from high above. I could not make out whether from the sky or from other places. The string was being drawn when I looked up, the string could be seen upto some height only. I could not see beyond that. Still the string was continuously coming down and I thought that a heap must have formed, but when I looked down I found it to be very little; otherwise in proportion to which Sri Aurobindo was drawing, there should have been a big heap. The speed of drawing the string was beyond imagination.

I saw this dream at daytime.

Mother, what is this string? I could not make out from where it came? Why could I not see it? I humbly pray to you to explain the meaning so that I may understand the dream.

Kamala,

The strings you saw me pulling down are the lines of consciousness which can connect the personal being with the Divine Truth; they are above out of reach, I am bringing them down into the human mind, life and body. You can see only a part of them because they reach into the heights far above the human mind, and you see only a little of what is brought down because they go into all parts of Nature down to the subconscient of which the ordinary human mind can see very little. That is the meaning of the dream.

Sri Aurobindo