(Mother holds a note out to Satprem) This is what I sent for the conferences of the New Age Association. [[An association of students from the Ashram. ]] They asked, "Is the aim of life to be happy?..." So I replied:"That is just putting things topsy-turvy."The aim of human life is to discover the Divine and to manifest it. Naturally, this discovery leads to happiness, but this happiness is a consequence, not an aim in itself. And it is this mistake of taking a mere consequence for the aim of life that has been the cause of most of the miseries afflicting humanity." What do they mean by "happiness"!Yes! Everyone thinks it's his or her personal little happiness, and that's the cause of the whole misery. They did put "to be happy": "Is the aim of life to be happy?"... That's AMAZING! And that's just what has distorted things, it's the source of everything. "Me, I am happy if I kill someone - so let me kill someone"! (Mother laughs) Yes, they always put the little person at the center.Yes, always, always! page 123, Mother's Agenda , volume 11 , 28th March - 1970 |