They can't get that into their heads.

He adds: "I suggested it might be better to gather and listen to

Mother's voice (the recordings of the Wednesday and Friday

classes), for even if one doesn't understand at all, your voice

would do its inner work, which we are not able to comprehend.

the child in contact with you. For all the suggestions, mine in

cluded, seem to me arbitrary and worthless.... Mother, would

it not be better for the teachers to concentrate exclusively on

the subjects they teach, since you are there to look after spiritual life?"

Since?

"Since you are there to look after spiritual life."
I am going to answer him, "There's no such thing as 'spiritual life'!"

It's still the old idea. Still the old idea of the sage, the yogi, the sannyasin, the ... who represents spiritual life, while all others represent ordinary life - but it's not true! It's not true, not true at all.

If they still need to oppose one thing to another (because that wretched mind doesn't work when it's not given an opposition), if they need an opposition, let them take the opposition between Truth and Falsehood, it's somewhat better (I am not saying it's perfect, but it's somewhat better). But then, in all things Falsehood and Truth are there, mixed, everywhere; in the so-called "spiritual life," in the sannyasins, the swamis, those who think they represent divine life on earth and all that, there is also that mixture of Falsehood and Truth.


page 98-99 , Mother's Agenda , volume 8 , 5th April - 1967