Soon afterwards Did your mother intend to come by plane? By sea.Mon petit, ships can no longer sail past Port Said: the Suez Canal is closed. What's going to happen?(After a long silence) We are just like this (gesture hanging in balance between two chasms). Yesterday, I would have answered very strongly.... Let me tell you what happened. We had here an American, a very nice boy who, before he came here, was a paratroop instructor in Israel's army. I don't think he is an Israeli, I think he's American; I am sure his nationality is American, I saw his passport. But he was a paratroop instructor in Israel's army. When those two started quarreling, he wrote me a letter in which he explained that, and also paid great compliments to the Israeli nation, saying they had achieved a really remarkable sense of brotherhood and cooperation. That was his impression of the country. And he said that if war broke out, he would like to go back there to help them as much as he could. So as soon as they started bombing each other, he decided to go. He left yesterday evening. And I saw him in the afternoon, before he left. He is a sincere man. While he was here, Sri Aurobindo ... (how can I explain?), the impression is that Sri Aurobindo "concretizes" (he is always here, but at certain times he seems to concretize, as though ... [Mother makes a gesture of gathering or condensing]. That's really the impression: he concretizes and starts speaking). So then, first Sri Aurobindo said to him (but there was a whole WORLD in it), "My blessings are with you." The man was very touched (I didn't tell him it was Sri Aurobindo; I spoke, you understand, it was my mouth that spoke then, but it was Sri Aurobindo who spoke). Then I concentrated, and Sri Aurobindo said with great force: "All the countries live in falsehood. If only one country stood courageously for truth, the world might be saved." That's where things stand. Today ... Have you heard today's news? They have blocked Suez and broken off with the U.S.All the Muslim countries, including Algeria and so on, have been ordered to break off with America and Britain. [[Also to stop selling them oil. ]] I don't know if all this news is true, but there is also a general pressure from all countries, from America and Britain, for instance, and at the same time from Russia, for a cease-fire, to stop the conflict. If this news is true (because the amount of lies that are passed around is unbelievable), if this news is true, it means the Pressure is beginning - the pressure of the Consciousness. It has already started acting. You see, every national entity has a right to free and independent existence, provided it doesn't interfere in the free and independent existence of all other entities. Ambitions, territorial expansions - of course, all colonies and all of that - must be swept out of the picture. To defend themselves, the Egyptians say that the Israelis had publicly declared that Israel's border should be the Nile - I don't know if that's true. I don't know if it's true because everybody tells lies. On their part, the Egyptians publicly declared three years ago (it was a public declaration), they publicly declared that the Israeli nation had no right to exist and had to disappear. Three days ago, Nasser declared that he wanted "the destruc tion of Israel: wiped off the map."Yes, that's it. But three years ago, they declared that Israel shouldn't exist. So that clearly puts them in the wrong. I don't know how the others replied.... The whole world lives in falsehood, without a doubt, but one thing must be established in an absolute way: the right of each nation or country to individual existence, provided it doesn't interfere in another nation's right. That should be the base. Of course, they will start arguing: "BUT at that time, things were like that; at that time they were like this; and in the past this was ours; in the past ..." Endless arguments. So there should be a higher vision, which means a balanced and just and deep vision of things, capable of saying, "This is how it is." Otherwise there would be an indefinite source of arguments. For the moment, at any rate, all diplomatic relations are based on falsehood - and the crudest falsehood at that: it's recognized as a necessity and the only way out. That's how they consider it. So that's what must be abolished to begin with. page 172-73 , Mother's Agenda , volume 8 , 7th June - 1967 |
But you know - I have rarely felt that - yesterday there was really something like a prayer for Israel.Indeed there was! You really say to yourself, "This MUST NOT be."That's it, absolutely. It was so strong. page 175-76 , Mother's Agenda , volume 8 , 7th June - 1967 |
With this Israel affair, I have been made to write all sorts of things, to answer all kinds of questions (Mother looks for her notes).... Did I show you this? "Those who serve the Truth cannot take one side or another. Truth is above conflict or opposition. In Truth all countries unite in a common effort towards progress and realisation." This was in answer to someone who asked whom one should "take sides" with. There is also that man who wrote from Israel, saying that their success, their victory exceeded anything they had hoped for. And he adds, "They seem to be too materialistic to know the real source of it" - he knew. But he says (he is American, not Israeli; he may be Jewish by religion, I don't know, but he is American by birth), he says he greatly admires the way the country is organized, there in Israel, and that it's "a wonder of brotherhood and sense of organization." So he writes to ask me if this isn't the beginning of a future realization? They clearly are very receptive.... I saw it straight away; when I was told that the Egyptians, and in particular this present president, [[Nasser. ]] had decreed that the Israeli nation must disappear, I straight away saw there was a very strong reaction [[A reaction in Mother, or in the universal Mother. ]] - (laughing) it brought about quite a categorical result! page 187 , Mother's Agenda , volume 8 , 17th June - 1967 |