February 21, 1967 (Message for Mother's eighty-ninth birthday) When darkness deepens strangling the earth's breast And man's corporeal mind is the only lamp, As a thief's in the night shall be the covert tread Of one who steps unseen into his house. A voice ill-heard shall speak, the soul obey, A power into mind's inner chamber steal, A charm and sweetness open life's closed doors And beauty conquer the resisting world, The truth-light capture Nature by surprise, Page 61 A stealth of God compel the heart to bliss And earth grow unexpectedly divine. Sri Aurobindo (Savitri, I.IV.63) Page 62

September 3, 1967 (Regarding Auroville's beach, where Satprem now often goes in the evening for a stroll. The beach is some four miles from Pondicherry.) I find the atmosphere different. Over there?... It's wonderful. Yes, but there is a very different atmosphere, I don't know ifit's in my consciousness. Something is missing? ... It [Mother's atmosphere] doesn't reach up to there? I don't know, I don't feel "surrounded" as I do here. When Sri Aurobindo was here and I used to go out, I would feel his atmosphere as far as the lake. [[Some six miles from Pondicherry. ]] Then, as soon as I went beyond, it would thin out and then vanish. But I thought that there

M o t h e r's   A g e n d a   July_1965 July, 1965 Om, Supreme Lord, God of kindness and mercy. Om, Supreme Lord, God of love and beatitude. I am tired of our infirmity, but it is not to rest that this body aspires, it aspires to the plenitude of Your consciousness, it aspires to the splendor of Your light, it aspires to the magnificence of Your power - above all, it aspires to the glory of Your all-powerful and eternal love. Page 387 ISBN 2-902776-33-0

January 9, 1967 Are you tired? No ... I can't say "tired," I don't feel tired.... I am very ... very deep within. I feel I am there (gesture above the head), and usually it's not like that. Since this morning I've had the feeling of being there (same gesture), and it's extremely strong there, as if something were being done. I feel work is being done (at night also). I don't know if it's an effect of your experience, but I have Page 17 great difficulty being in physical things: in words, gestures, all outward things. A great difficulty. It began yesterday, with the sense of a very widespread action taking place. Page 18

April 13, 1967 (A note from Mother to Satprem, who is in a bad mood) Satprem, my dear little one, We're still friends anyway! Tenderness Signed: Mother Page 107 April 15, 1967 Have you read this report on LSD? What's your impression? It's interesting. They have experiences that aren't just on the level of brute sensation. That drug does release the consciousness, all the same. (Mother remains silent) It releases from the whole habit of formations. Page 107 Ah, yes, that, surely. But he himself says it's better to begin with a guide. But do you hold the same opinion after reading the end?Because you hadn't read the whole thing

Undated Makest for it possible to bear the work of transformation. Page 388

Undated ... because the state of Nature that makes this necessary must be surpassed. We aspire for the time when it will no longer be necessary for Sri Aurobindo to die. Page 389

M o t h e r's   A g e n d a   Undated Undated The task of completing Sri Aurobindo's vision has been given to the Mother. The creation of a new world, a new humanity, a new society expressing and embodying the new consciousness is the work she has undertaken. Because of the very nature of things, it is an ideal that seeks to broaden the base of the attempt to establish harmony between body and Soul, Spirit and Matter, ... Page 389 ISBN 2-902776-33-0

June 28, 1967 Regarding an Italian disciple who has just come ... Her family wanted to baptize her child and they were beginning to quarrel (because I said, "We do not want baptism"), so they wrote to me in despair, saying, "We don't know what we should do, because the whole family is against us and they're constantly picking a quarrel with us." So I wrote: "If they really want freedom, let them come and give birth to the child in Auroville! ..." Oh, they were enthusiastic, she left right away! Here, see the register! (Mother laughingly shows the notebook in which she noted a few days ago the first birth in Auroville.) Page 198

March 15, 1967 The roses are open now (Mother holds out a rose to Satprem), but this one has a magnificent color. Beautiful, isn't it? This morning I had an amusing experience with roses. There was a closed bud - big, hard - big and hard, red. I took it, looked at it, then my fingers ran over the flower like that, and ... (gesture showing the flower opening up), one petal after another and another and yet another - before my very eyes. And it was completely hard and closed. I took it and said, "A pity." I was about to put it back in water so it would open up, and while I looked ... It was such a pretty sight, you know, opening up, happy, as if saying to me, "Oh, how happy I am!" F