WRITINGS BY THE MOTHER
© Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust

Sweet Mother,

Why do we believe in rebirth? What were we before our present state?

Those who have had the memory of past lives have declared the reality of rebirth.

There have been--and there still are--beings whose inner consciousness is sufficiently developed for them to know for certain that this consciousness has manifested in bodies other than their present one and that it will survive the disappearance of this body.

It is not a theory to be discussed--it is an indisputable experience for one who has had it.

Blessings.

5 November 1969

Collected Works of The Mother, First Edition, Volume 16, p. 398