SRI AUROBINDO AND MOTHER TO PRITHWI SINGH Sri Aurobindo and Mother to Prithwi Singh Correspondence (1933-1967) MlRA ADITI Mysore Edited by Sujata Nahar and Michel Danino. Sri Aurobindo and Mother to Prithwi Singh © Noren, Nirmal, Abhay, Sujata, Sumitra and Suprabha Nahar, 1998. All rights reserved. For information address : -in Asia : MIRA ADITI CENTER 62 'Sriranga', 2ml Main, 1st Cross T. K. Layout, Saraswatip

Part One 1933-1938 (Reproduced overleaf: letter of December 1, 1935. See text pp. 61-63.) (Written during Prithwi Singh's first stay at the Ashram.) Mother,1 I will be able to do good copying work, both in English and Bengali. Also I know typewriting a little. I can do general work also as assistant to somebody if I have not to go about from place to place which is difficult on account of weak eyesight. By your grace I am staying here till the 5th of December. And during this time I will gladly undertake any work you may choose for me. With deep reverence Devoted

Prithwi Singh Nahar In the western parts of India, what is now Rajasthan, there is the Aravalli Range, a chain of mountains whose tallest peak stands 1695 metres above sea level—the highest altitude between the Nilgiris and the Himalayas. One of the most ancient rocks in the peninsula, Mount Abu is a beautiful natural structure. Like all such beauty spots, it too is full of mythological stories. Specially because the river Saraswati, which was born in the Himalayas and got lost in the desert of Rajasthan, appears again from Mount Abu. But today it is more renowned for its marvels in marble—the Jain temple complex at Dilwara. It is at the legendary agnikund (fire altar)

-02_Editors^ Note.htm Editors' Note We present here letters from Sri Aurobindo and Mother to Prithwi Singh Nahar, whose birth centenary falls this 3rd June 1998. This correspondence covers more than thirty years, beginning with Prithwi Singh's first stay at the Ashram in 1933. Extracts from these letters were published in the Centenary Edition of Sri Aurobindo's works, but almost always incompletely, with one portion of a letter somewhere, another portion of the same letter elsewhere, and a third part nowhere. Here, the letters have been placed in chronological order and in their integrality, except for a few letters or passages of a very minor nature. Regrettably, many of Prithwi

Part Two 1939-1967 (Reproduced overleaf: letter of August 30,1945. See text p. 136.) (After the accident to his leg on 24 November 1938, Sri Aurobindo wrote less frequently to the sadhaks. Most of the following letters are thus from Mother.) Prithwi Singh, Well, I surely know very little of human mother's ways because I never dreamt of getting rid of one of my children by giving him or her something!... Anyhow I had nothing of the kind in my mind and I had a fan put in your room because I knew that you were feeling hot—for, you believe that I have withdrawn, but it is