On Sri Aurobindo’s Mahasamadhi

Q: I would like very much to ask you something… Why did he have to go?

A: Ah! That can’t be told.

(long silence)

I can tell you why, but in a purely superficial way… Because for him to do IMMEDIATELY—without leaving his body, that is—what he had to do, well…

(silence)

We can put it this way: the world was not ready. But to tell you the truth, it was the totality of things around him that was not ready. So when he SAW this (I only understood this afterwards), he saw that it would go much faster if he were not there.

And he was ABSOLUTELY right, it was true.

Once I saw that, I accepted. When I saw it, when he made me understand, I accepted; …

Ref: The Mother’s Agenda