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As I appeared to be doubting, X told me, 'There is no "suspicion " [doubt], the war will take place in November' (in
fact, it is to occur some time between September and November), and for
the rest of the talk, he had a tone of absolute certitude: 'The
first atom bomb will fall in China. Russia will be crushed. It will be a
victory for America. Not more than 2 or 3 atom bombs will be used. It
will be very quick.' And he repeated that the starting-point of the
conflict would be situated in India due to the aggression of Pakistan,
then of China.
The earthquake he mentioned promises to be a kind of 'pralaya'
(as X put it), for not only Bombay will be touched. This is what he
said: 'America supports Pakistan, but the gods do not support
Pakistan, and Pakistan will be punished by the gods. HALF of western
Pakistan, including Karachi, will go into the sea. The sea will enter
into Rajasthan and touch India also ... '
X then said that India would side with America against the
Communist bloc (in spite of America's support to Pakistan), and
furthermore, that the day India sides with America, America will cease
supporting Pakistan. In any case, it will be the end of Pakistan. page 315 - Mother's Agenda , volume -1 , 8th June |
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Here are two or three things that might interest you:
1) X spoke to me again of the war without my asking anything. He repeated, 'There will be war,' and he again spoke of an attack on India by China ... page 331 - Mother's Agenda , volume -1 , 15th Oct June |
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It's like opening a door just a crack and catching a glimpse of what's beyond.... It was the same experience when I told Sri Aurobindo that India was free; it was the Universal Mother speaking from what could be called Her origin - it was from that level - and the thing took thirty-five years to come down on Earth. When I had the experience that the time had come for the supramental Force to descend on Earth, I followed the effects of that descent, I followed the effects and the consequences in my consciousness. But to ordinary eyes it was something like what happened with India's liberation - it's possible, of course, that the Supermind did come down, but for the moment its effects are more than veiled. The first rather tangible manifestation was this vision of the boat; with that, things became more concrete, it radically changed something in the attitude. We're at another stage now. page 49 - Mother's Agenda, volume 3, 21st Jan. - 1962 |
Even in India. And I am beginning to believe.... That's what I observe when I am put in contact with the outside world, Europe. ... But anyway, the Old World is an OLD world in the true sense of the word. India is much, much older, but more alive. Yet now it strikes me as so very rotten! They went rotten. You know what happens when a rotten apple is put next to a good one: England came and stayed much too long. It made things go quite rotten. Very, very rotten; it's difficult to heal. Otherwise, what's not rotten is truly good. page 260, Mother's Agenda , volume 3 , 14th July 1962. |
Silence, silence. This is a time for gathering energies and not for wasting them away in useless and meaningless words. Anyone who proclaims loudly his opinions on the present situation of the country, must understand that opinions are of no value and cannot in the least help Mother India to come out of her difficulties. If you want to be useful, first control yourself and keep silent - silence, silence, silence. It is only in silence that anything great can be done. That was just when the war began; people were criticizing the government as if ... To one of them I wrote personally: "If you were up there, would you know what has to be done? No. So if you don't know, you have no right to say anything - keep silent." But you know, I make a point of reading an Indian newspaper every day.... You get a sense of a great decomposition.The country? Oh, but it's rotten, mon petit! Oh, it's in an appalling condition. But what's extraordinary is that there's nobody! There's no opposition, there's nothing.(After a long silence) It's a subject I don't talk about, first because it's understood that we do not concern ourselves with politics; I made the decision not to concern myself with politics until WE do it, that is, until we are in power. But in spite of this, since the day of liberation (already seventeen years ago to the day - seventeen years!), I have ceaselessly repeated, "These people are going to ruin the country. They have neither consciousness nor knowledge nor will, and they are going to ruin the country." Every time, whenever they made a blunder, I repeated the same thing. Now the country is ruined. The famine is much worse than it was when it was supposedly "tragic." Now it's terrible. There's not enough to eat; the country is so large, there's so much uncultivated land, there are so many people without work ... and there's not enough food for everyone! And they've closed the borders: they stop the food from coming from outside, and there's not enough for everyone to eat. But then, the number of stupid ideas these people have tried out to mend the situation - it's unbelievable! And each blunder has made the situation worse. Now it's extremely serious. Sri Aurobindo said (he said it to me in an absolute way) that nothing could be done as long as WE weren't the government - not that we were going to start governing in person (!), but that those who govern should be people who "receive" and obey. He also said that he expected that in '67, not only in India, but in the whole world, governments would begin to receive the supramental Influence. And obviously, he expected things to become EXTREMELY bad before that.... They're bad enough in the world: people are fighting everywhere, people are being killed everywhere - in Indonesia hosts of people have been murdered, in Cyprus hosts of people have been murdered. Anyway, it's an undeclared war, but it's everywhere. And here, there's TOTAL corruption - total, to such a point that ... I'll give you an example. The government meddles in everything, you can't move a finger without its permission: you can't leave the country, you can't enter the country, you can't send money out, you can't open a shop, you can't ... nothing, nothing, nothing, not even plow your field without its permission. They meddle in everything, which in itself is pretty stupid. And then they make regulations - the more regulations you make, the more disobedience it creates, naturally. People no longer grow crops because it's too complicated and with all those taxes (they've scores of taxes to pay), it costs them much more than they can earn. And as there isn't enough food, there are naturally individuals who try and hoard as much as they can to sell it for as high a price as possible. The situation in which we ourselves are [at the Ashram], this difficulty, doesn't come from anything else: the government's interference in everything, its meddling in other people's affairs and putting spokes in the wheels of everything, but everything. I've got a pile of examples, of proof for every minute - all the proof. So there are two possibilities: violence, or Transformation. Violence means invasion or revolution - it's hanging in the air, it could break out any moment. The government ... Nehru wasn't worth much, but still for the masses he represented a certain ideal (which he was quite incapable of living up to, but anyway ...). After him, it's finished; the present Prime Minister is a man with great goodwill, who has no character, to such a point that in the presence of difficulties he falls ill - he's ill! Ill, he can't work! That's where we are. [[Indira Gandhi will come to power in early 1966, after the death of the present Prime Minister, Lal Bahadur Shastri. ]] Here, in Pondicherry, it's the same muddle. But you get the feeling that in a country like this one, which in spite of everything is receptive, if one great man (I mean, of |
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Mother hands Satprem a brochure, "Spiritual Unity of India," in which quotations from Sri Aurobindo and Mother on the partition of India have been gathered, in particular Mother's declaration: "India must fight until India and Pakistan have once more become ONE.") It has gone around India. Thousands of copies have been distributed in India. There are even lots of newspapers that have written about it. It has made a lot of noise in the country.page 291 , Mother's Agenda , volume 6 , 10th Nov - 1965 |
But unless outward circumstances COMPEL India to reunite with Pakistan, they won't budge.But it's being prepared. It's being prepared. It's going to break out all at once. The impression is that if India isn't pushed from the outside, isn't forced to re-create this unity, they won't budge.The army is completely with us. Besides, it seems (I have been receiving a great many letters, I've again received some these last few days), it seems they had truly miraculous instances of forces intervening, of people suddenly turning into extraordinary heroes.... There were marvelous things. If, at that point, [[Before India accepted the cease-fire of September 22. ]] they hadn't stopped, it would have been easy. page 292 , Mother's Agenda , volume 6 , 10th Nov - 1965 |
The government (I don't know who) has asked the chief of the Radio here to ask me for a message on India's condition. At first I answered, "I don't deal with politics." Then he told me, "No, it's not from a political but from a spiritual standpoint." I said, "I don't know." But he insisted, he told me, "I've been asked by the government; if I can't give it to them, I'll be in trouble...." The poor man knew how to get round me! (Mother laughs) See, here's his letter (Satprem reads): "I pray the Mother to record a message for my radio on 'integration and unity of India'...." I said this: (Mother reads) "It is only India's soul who can unify the country. "Externally the provinces of India are very different in character, tendencies, culture, as well as in language,and any attempt to unify them artificially could only have disastrous results. "But her soul is one, intense in her aspiration towards the spiritual truth, the essential unity of the creation and the divine origin of life, and by uniting with this aspiration the whole country can recover a unity that has never ceased to exist for the superior mentality." page 189-90 , Mother's Agenda , volume 9 , 3rd July - 1968 |
But I told you (did I see you after I saw the President?), I told you that when the President was here, suddenly this Consciousness started pressing on my head: "Say this." I didn't feel like speaking, so I kept quiet. Then the pressure became so strong that I started perspiring all over! So I made up my mind and spoke. And it was over. It was ... Without the Force in it, it's a platitude, but at the time, it had the power of a revelation, you know, when it made me say ... (Mother tries to remember) What did I say?"Let us work ..."Ah, it was in English - that's it (I was trying to remember in French!), "Let us all work for the greatness of India." You understand, it's a platitude - it became a revelation. I notice this: when it makes me say something and I see it later with the ordinary consciousness, I find it such a platitude! Or something perfectly obvious, or which isn't worth saying. But when it descends, it takes such a force! And it HAS a force (Mother brings down her two fists). Page 339 , Mother's Agenda , volume 10 , 20th Sep - 1969 |
Sujata asks a question. She says: "If India called the Divine,would it not be a more effective way of stopping China?"Un-de-ni-a-bly! (Mother laughs) Undeniably. They don't have faith! page 195 - Mother's Agenda , volume 11 , 16th May - 1970 |
I was asked for a message for all of India [in connection with the Bangladesh crisis]. I gave one. (Mother hands the text)
page 160 - Mother's Agenda , volume 12 , 9th June - 1971 |