The Mother · Sri Aurobindo

Vision of the Mother and Realisation

Q: Could a vision of the Mother or seeing her in dream or in waking be called a realisation?

A: That would be an experience rather than a realisation. A realisation would be of the Mother's presence within, her force doing the work―or of the Peace or Silence everywhere, of universal Love, universal Beauty or Ananda etc., etc. Visions come under the head of experiences, unless they fix themselves and are accompanied by a realisation of which they are as it were the support―e.g. the vision of the Mother always in the heart or above the head etc.

12-3-1934