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April 16, 1969
(Mother listens to a few pieces of pop music brought to
her by
François B., an enthusiastic visitor)
It's very amusing! (Mother laughs)
It's the vital in full revolt against the mind, but it's magnificent! They reject the whole mind. It's interesting, very- interesting!
You get the feeling that if they pushed a little farther on (gesture of piercing above), they would catch something.
(François B.:) Mother, a few groups have pushed much farther
on. This one [the Rolling Stones] is the most vital of all the
groups. But there are others, more open, less rough. They are
really ready to recognize you, but they don't know.
It's clearl
April 30, 1969
This Consciousness is truly extraordinary, and with such a sense of humor, you know! ... It's educating this body, beginning with sweeping away all moral notions. The body is spontaneously in a sort of adoration, and all of a sudden this Consciousness showed it a big, huge serpent, with two formidable fangs, which was like this (gesture erect in front of Mother). And at the same time it gave the explanation: "The poisoned fangs ... It's the Supreme Goodness that invented them, of course ...." You know, it was so ... It's irresistible. And this poor body remained like that, a little flabbergasted .... It realized it had never thought of that! It had taken things as they are,
September 3, 1969
For two days, I've had a sort of retrospective vision of the horrors of life ... as though seen with the new Consciousness. And the odd thing is that you wonder how it was possible to go through all those horrors ....
It began with a sort of thoroughly repellant perception of people's condition from the standpoint of consciousness - of the darkness and of this so narrow sort of egocentric vision. That was the beginning, and then the Consciousness seemed to be telling me, "Oh, but don't worry, it's much better than it was before!" (Mother laughs) And it showed me everything like that (gesture as in a film), oh! ... it was so frightful that I wondered how it could ha
August 6, 1969
(After studying various matters of printing,
Motherabruptly asks:)
I'd like to ask you a material detail: have you enough cheese for one week?!
Yes, yes, Mother.
Are you sure? ... Because cheese is good for you. If you want more, there's nothing easier ...
(Mother peers at Satprem's face)
Ah, it's yes! (To Sujata) Go and ask for a box.
You think of everything!
You know, I don't "think," but things come like this (gesture as if on a screen). All of a sudden I see, so it must be true, it's not my imagination.
Yet it's not in my consciousness!
Ah, mon petit, I see much more than what you're aware of! (Mother laughs) It's in your subcon
May 17, 1969
(About Pavitra's departure. Pavitra was the oldest French disciple; chemist and engineer of the École Polytechnique, he came
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to the Ashram in December, 1925, after having pursued his
quest all the way to Mongolia's lamaseries. [[Pavitra left some very interesting memoirs of his conversations with Sri Aurobindo and Mother in 1925 and 1926, which unfortunately were barbarously mutilated (with whole pages torn away, almost a third of Pavitra's notebooks) by his closest collaborator, under the pretext that it would be "better left unsaid." We shudder to think what would have been the fate of this Agenda had it come into the hands of those same "collaborator
June 28, 1969
Oh, I've received this from little S.U., again in relation to your book:
(Mother holds out a letter)
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Sweet Mother,
What is the idea behind this sentence from the "Adven
ture": "Unfortunately, the West has too much intelligence to
have much clear vision to translate outwardly, while India,
too full within, is not demanding enough to match what she
lives with what she sees"?
(Mother smiles and
dictates straight off)
It means that in the West (especially in France), the intellectual development has prevailed over the spiritual development and the contact with higher regions, while in India, the inner knowledge has remained mor
January 25, 1969
(The whole time is spent in contemplation, except for a
moment when Mother comes back to say:)
All the time, all the time, something like a slight indication passes by - and noiselessly: it's not words.
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May 3, 1969
This Consciousness is very interesting. It has (smiling) ... it's not scorn, it's a sort of faraway indifference for all human ideas - all conventions, all principles, all moralities, it finds all of that ... absolutely grotesque. Now and then, it comes into contact with human ideas (Mother takes a surprised tone of voice): "Ooh! So that's what they think ..." It's amusing!
There are two things. Death, it doesn't at all understand what we mean by that, the importance we attach to it - but not at all. And then, money, to this consciousness, is buffoonery: this system of money, the invention of this system, which prevents you from doing anything unless you pull out a banknote, t
September 13, 1969
RL. has seen something. He thinks what he's seen is me, but in
fact it's his own mental projection, I think. Anyway, it expresses
clearly enough the problem he is facing .... Basically, the
thought
that troubles him is to know whether he would do a better work
by leaving the Church than by staying within it. That's the prob
lem he has been somewhat mulling over, because, for instance,
next month in Rome, all the bishops are meeting in a synod, and
on that occasion, a number of priests who are recalcitrant or
refractory or rebellious, let us say, want to meet in Rome and
hold a sort of anti-synod to publicly prod the Church towards a
July 23, 1969
(The American astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin
landed on themoon on July 21. Mother shows the following text
which
was suggested to her as a "message" for August 15.)
It's Nolini who suggested this text ... because of the people who landed on the moon! (Mother laughs) But it's far too personal - I said no. I am just showing it to you, but I told him, "No, I don't want."
Q. "I have been wondering whether the Mother has beenable
to establish a direct connection with Mars or any other
far off planet which is probably habitable and inhabited."
Someone put this question to Sri Aurobindo. So now that people have landed on the moon ...
A. "A long t