There's a new phenomenon during the night. One phenomenon was there before, but has grown more precise: it's a place in the subtle physical where those with a body and those without a body are mingled without difference. They have the same reality, the same density and the same conscious, independent existence. There I see ... Last night (or the night before, I don't know), there were things like that: Chandulal [[Chandulal is the engineer who built Golconde. He left his body in November 1945 ... twenty-four years earlier. ]] was there, Amrita too, they met and talked, made plans together, just as they would have done physically on earth. It wasn't the first time they were meeting, and they said to each other, "I'll tell you tomorrow like that, regarding their ideal. Interesting things. There's another ... (Mother tries to remember) Ah, yes, Purani [[Purani left his body in December 1965. ]] also. They go about there. There's an extraordinary likeness to material life, except that you can feel they're freer in their movement. But that's not new, it's just growing more concrete and precise. What's new is what has taken place these last few nights ...


page 247 , Mother's Agenda , volume 10 , 19th July - 1969


But didn't you see Mridu? [[Who was Sri Aurobindo's cook, and round as a barrel; she left her body seven years earlier, in September 1962. ]]
No.
She's there (huge gesture, laughing), just as she was! ... I saw Purani, I saw Mridu, and the other day (I told you) I saw Amrita and Chandulal talking together. That whole place looks like downstairs, but it's not downstairs. So it's the place all right.


page 255 , Mother's Agenda , volume 10 , 23rd July - 1969