In nationalist history, Mirabehn more or less dies with Gandhiji. She hangs around independent India after her hero is assassinated and then, for all that any historian knows or cares, she disappears into the thickets of Europe. In actual fact, Mirabehn left India to seek her personal resurrection as a lover of Beethoven. Accompanied by a humble Indian serving companion, she lived on the outskirts of Vienna, around the countryside where Beethoven had drawn inspiration for his masterworks. The last third of her life was spent there, in spiritual communion with the man who was, once again, more important to her than Mahatma Gandhi, more important than she herself had guessed. Mirabehn becomes, in short, Aurobindess - a latter-day Aurobindo in woman's garb, the female nationalist turned mystic. For lovers of music, the form her mysticism takes is much more comprehensible than Aurobindo's. For such people, Mirabehn's life is lived before and after nationalism, before she met Gandhiji and after Gandhiji dies.