Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

3. The Mother and the Practice of the Integral Yoga

Fragment ID: 19257

You wrote yesterday in regard to X’s visions: “Openness is not reckoned merely by visions.” Quite so. But to have a fusion of the rays of the sun and moon on each side of the body, and to feel the descent and the Mother’s presence in, behind and above oneself, is this not an exceptional vision and experience? Can it occur without sufficient opening to the Mother?

Why should it be exceptional to see the Sun and Moon on each side or to feel the Mother’s presence everywhere around? There are plenty of sadhaks who have had these or equivalent experiences. What would be exceptional is to feel the Mother’s presence like that always. But occasional experiences like these many have had.

15 September 1936