Mirra returns to Pondicherry

On April 24, 1920, the Mother arrives at Pondicherry for the second time, never to depart again. Paul Richard comes with her. The significance of the day of her arrival, April 24 and its importance in the Yoga of Sri Aurobindo came to be increasingly recognized with the passage of time, culminating in its anniversary becoming one of the four days a year when Sri Aurobindo and the Mother would give darshan to their disciples in the Ashram and to visitors who received permission to come for the occasion.

January 1921: Last issue of the Arya published (age 49)

In early 1921, Sri Aurobindo stops the Arya journal because “the human mind is not ready for further knowledge.”

In this same year, A.B. Purani pays a visit to Sri Aurobindo and tells of his surprise in seeing Sri Aurobindo after 2 years time: “During the interval of two years his body had undergone a transformation which could only be described as miraculous. In 1918 the colour of the body was like that of an ordinary Bengali – rather dark – though there was lustre on the face and his gaze was penetrating. On going upstairs to see him, I found his cheeks were apple pink and the whole body glowed with a soft creamy light. So great and unexpected was the change that I could not help exclaiming, “What has happened to you?” Instead of giving a direct reply, he parried the question – as I had grown a beard – “And what has happened to you?”