Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother

18 September 1967

Dearest Mother,

I found your reply to R’s question about the body of St. Francis Xavier extremely interesting, quite a new vision of things. Could we infer from it that the undecayed condition here points to a hitherto unrealised natural possibility of result by dehydration — opening a new vista for physical science? When you say that this condition is not a “miracle”, I suppose you quite rule out any direct action from beyond nature.

What do you mean? There is nothing in this world which is not submitted to a direct action beyond Nature — but most of the men are unaware of it.

18 September 1967