Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

4. The Mother in the Life of the Ashram

Fragment ID: 20107

Could you explain what you mean by the inner touch?

The inner touch is the Mother’s influence felt in the inner being.

When I was having experiences and realisations, why did I not feel the inner touch? It is said that without the inner touch, one cannot have such experiences, which are the fruit of the inner being’s development.

You did not feel it because the inner being was not awake to it – it felt only the results – and these results were not experiences in the inner being itself but of the Self above.

6 February 1937