May 3, 1969 This Consciousness is very interesting. It has (smiling) ... it's not scorn, it's a sort of faraway indifference for all human ideas - all conventions, all principles, all moralities, it finds all of that ... absolutely grotesque. Now and then, it comes into contact with human ideas (Mother takes a surprised tone of voice): "Ooh! So that's what they think ..." It's amusing! There are two things. Death, it doesn't at all understand what we mean by that, the importance we attach to it - but not at all. And then, money, to this consciousness, is buffoonery: this system of money, the invention of this system, which prevents you from doing anything unless you pull out a banknote, t

September 13, 1969 RL. has seen something. He thinks what he's seen is me, but in fact it's his own mental projection, I think. Anyway, it expresses clearly enough the problem he is facing .... Basically, the thought that troubles him is to know whether he would do a better work by leaving the Church than by staying within it. That's the prob lem he has been somewhat mulling over, because, for instance, next month in Rome, all the bishops are meeting in a synod, and on that occasion, a number of priests who are recalcitrant or refractory or rebellious, let us say, want to meet in Rome and hold a sort of anti-synod to publicly prod the Church towards a

July 23, 1969 (The American astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin landed on themoon on July 21. Mother shows the following text which was suggested to her as a "message" for August 15.) It's Nolini who suggested this text ... because of the people who landed on the moon! (Mother laughs) But it's far too personal - I said no. I am just showing it to you, but I told him, "No, I don't want." Q. "I have been wondering whether the Mother has beenable to establish a direct connection with Mars or any other far off planet which is probably habitable and inhabited." Someone put this question to Sri Aurobindo. So now that people have landed on the moon ... A. "A long t

August 23, 1969 Yesterday I saw Y. She told me what she wanted to do: her new method of education .... It was rather amusing! ... It seems there is in a box the miniature reproduction of as many things of the earth as can be represented: humans, animals, objects, houses, and so on. All that is mixed together in a big box, on a sort of table, and the big and small children are put there, all of them together, and given a fixed time (I think): they have to make something out of the objects on the table - absolutely free, they do what they like. And it seems that according to what they do, the way they use the objects and assemble them, you can tell their character ... As an illustration, s

September 24, 1969 So did you see this healer? Yes, I saw him. Page 345 Tell me. I am very much struck, I must say. First of all, to put thingsphysically, the first time I saw him, I remained with him for three and a half hours-he didn't stop talking .... Oh! But the extraordinary thing is that usually, when I am withpeople, after half an hour I am exhausted - after three and a half hours (I didn't budge, didn't stop looking at him), I was as fresh as a daisy! And so full of energy that I didn't sleep the whole night! And I spent three and a half hours listening to this man .... Yesterday evening (I was tired, Id had a rather hea

February 19, 1969 (The conversation begins an hour late.) We must take life as a grace, otherwise it's impossible to live. (silence) I had things to say, but ... I've just seen at least thirty people. (silence) I am entirely convinced that things are as they must be, and that it's simply the body that lacks suppleness, tranquillity, trust .... So Page 66 I can't even say that things grate (they don't grate at all), but ... You understand, the work consists in changing the conscious base of all the cells-but not all at once! Because that would be impossible; even little by little is very difficult: the moment when the conscious base is changed is ... The

July 30, 1969 (The "healer" referred to in this conversation will often recur inthis Agenda, and will play a decisive role in Satprem's life, in the sense that through a sort of reductio ad absurdum, he will make Satprem suddenly understand who Mother really is.) Have you heard of that healer? ... Someone has written from France, the son of a farmer (I think), anyhow not an intellectual in the least, who by accident became aware that his hands have a healing power. So he writes a very long letter narrating all he did, how he developed himself, and so on, until he came across your book; [[Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness. ]] and when he read your book, for him it

October 12, 1969 (From Satprem to Mother) (The full text of the following letter regrettably disappeared, onlythe last part of it was found. The healer told Satprem that what he found near Mother was "the same thing" as elsewhere, the same immutable, eternal, changeless "That." Satprem tried hard to make the healer feel that there was nevertheless something else near Mother-perhaps because it was the very question that troubled him - and in his letter he asked Mother if he did well to write thus to the healer.) "... your journey in India. I pray from the bottom of my heart that you may not pass it by. In your solitary retreat, I hope you will be able to o

July 19, 1969 (Mother was strongly shaken on Wednesday the 16th and could not see Satprem.) They have mixed me up (in Delhi and here) in all their political affairs ... "mixed me up," I mean they're asking for my help. Some people are discontented and without scruples, and there was some mischief (on Wednesday, when I couldn't see you). I realized it afterwards. But it's troublesome. I haven't told anyone what it was. It was an incredible affair ... with no cause, no reason, [[Violent vomiting, probably the result of some magic. ]] and when I looked, I saw where it came from. Anyway, I was in no condition to see anyone. That's troublesome. It's about their politi

February 12, 1969 (A note from Satprem to Mother) Sweet Mother, I would have like to under stand what your look was saying this morning .... With love S. (Mother's answer overleaf) I would rather not write it. M. Page 63