The Winds of Wonder

This powerful happy marvel

To “My little smile”, one of the first children admitted to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram; she came at the age of fourteen. Little smile worked for many years embroidering clothes for the Mother and later became one of her personal attendants. She began writing to the Mother at the age of seventeen.

My dear Mother,

“Supramental beauty in the physical”¹—what does it mean? All these things—all the arts, the beautiful work we do for the Divine—are they expressions of supramental beauty in the physical?

No, all that is only the manifestation of a universal harmony which lies, as it were, at the very heart of creation. But the supramental beauty is something much higher and more perfect; it is a beauty untainted by any ugliness and it does not need the proximity of ugliness in order to look beautiful.

When the supramental forces descend into Matter in order to manifest, this perfect beauty will express itself quite naturally and spontaneously in all forms.

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1. The Mother’s name for a light golden-orange Hibiscus. ↩