Another one is Communist. He is a Russian who lives in Paris. He asked me if all the Auroville workers shouldn't meet and "talk over" (Mother laughs) the necessity of a "moral conduct"! (I have heard he keeps them all talking away till 3 in the morning.) So I answered him (laughing) that morality has only a very relative value from the standpoint of the Truth; that it changes with countries, climates and ages! I also told him that discussions were generally sterile and nonproductive. And so as not to be only critical, I answered him that if everyone made an effort to be perfectly sincere, straightforward and goodwilled, that would be enough to create quite a sufficient base to work on.... The poor fellow!


page 172 , Mother's Agenda , volume 7 , 10th Aug - 1966

A few days ago (two or three), Pavitra got a letter from France, from someone who wrote (Mother laughs) that according to a few French people who had visited the Ashram, morals have become quite "lax" at the Ashram and everything is in a pitiful state .... So then, this person sends his "wishes" for "the Ashram's morals to be raised again ...."

Pavitra asked me, "Should we reply?" At the time I said (laughing), "Don't bother replying, there's nothing to say" But once he had left, it came (gesture from above), not exactly as an answer to that person, but an answer to a rather common state of mind. It came in French first, in three parts: one sentence, then a whole group of experiences; a second sentence with a whole other group; and a third sentence. The connection hasn't been written down.

(Mother holds out

a note to Satprem)

"Never judge on appearances, still less on gossip ....
There. Then there was a whole group ... I don't know how to put it; it's not sentences, but a sort of knowledge that, naturally, your judgments are more or less consciously based on the morality in which you were brought up and the morality of the country you live in. So I wrote:

"The morality of one country is immorality in another ...
That's a fact. And here's the end:

"The service of the Divine exacts a sincerity in the surrender unknown to all moralities."
That's true, no morality, no religion has that! No one has ever dared to say that to people.

I hadn't noticed it, it's this occasion that made me notice it.


These moralists imagine they're "above," above the fallen condition of "Others," while they're in the same sludge as everyone else!
(Mother laughs) Naturally! Oh, moralists think they're very superior people.

But if you scratch a little, it's not pretty.

Yes, it's exactly the same thing.



page 74-75 , Mother's Agenda , volume 10 , 26th feb - 1969