May 10, 1969 What's new? Nothing, Mother. Page 173 You know, it's like a stick stirring a pond: everything is coming up ... one thing after another, everywhere, in the whole country a rottenness. As if everything, but everything were exposed. (silence) People write to me ... Previously, all kinds of things were going on downstairs [in the Ashram's offices]; people would speak with Amrita and they would "sort it out"; now, they're writing to me! ... I've just heard a load of it, you know ... (gesture like a truckload being dumped). I did have a kind of sensation that things weren't right, but I'd never have thought they were like that. And how are You? Fine, Mot

October 1, 1969 Did F tell you what the healer said to her? ... They met yesterday or the day before, and he "confessed" to her. He told her he came to India in the hope of finding a place where he could be left alone for a few weeks or even a few months, because he has found the way of healing everything, except a hernia he has, and he would like to be left alone so as to find a way to cure his hernia. Then F told him, "But you can be left alone right here." He replied, "Oh, but if I am asked to cure, I can't refuse." So it might be better to stop sending him people ... but he would have to move to a new house and be alone somewhere. He should be asked if it's all right with him. Thi

May 24, 1969 It's difficult .... The English would say, it's not a joke .... Everything, everything is getting disorganized, everything is disorganized. It's easy to see that it's getting disorganized TOWARDS a higher organization, that is, a broadening, a liberation - that's true ... but nothing, nothing at all is working in the ordinary way any longer. So the body can no longer eat, can no longer ... Sleep, of course, for a long time there hasn't been any ordinary sleep (I don't regret it), but everything, just everything is like this (gesture of upheaval). (long silence) It's a very strange sensation: no relationship remains as it was before. Nothing: neither of the body with it

March 8, 1969 There's a note from Monsignor R. [[P.L.'s friend. P.L. is the disciple in the Roman Curia. ]] First he asks, "May I request you to ask Mother to assist me these next few weeks in a special way? ... Does he believe in it?! Yes, he does! Page 82 Bah! ... Do you have his photo? Not here. Did you show it to me already? ... Yes, then it's all right, it's useful to establish the contact. Then he sends another note. In Rome they had the visit of Swami Z, and our friend P.L. had lunch with him (because they took the Swami to see the Pope, he had an audience with the Pope), they had lunch together and, writes Msgr. R., "The Swami

May 7, 1969 (Mother remains in meditation for a long time) This Consciousness has started working in people's vital beings. Have you noticed? Some people had big vital difficulties - it's beginning to work in them. It's quite unexpected for me. You haven't noticed? Page 172 I have an impression that it's more easy, that difficulties are less violent-that one has a greater mastery, if you like. That's my impression. (Mother nods her head silence) And it's taken it into its head to compel me to concern myself with politics, and that bothers me. But if the time has come ... I have the impression that just as it has tried, not exactly to dissolve relig

March 19, 1969 (Mother listens to the English translation of the conversation of February 15 - "These cells, other cells, it was life everywhere, consciousness everywhere ..." - for "Notes on the Way," then remarks in English:) It's just like the bark of something! ... Too bad! *** Soon afterwards Oh, you know, it's really amusing! It [this Consciousness] has started telling me ... It's constantly giving lessons to the body - not mental lessons: how the body is beginning to live, see, understand .... It's odd. There had always been a question mark .... We can conceive that in the supermind, procreation will be unnecessary, because life on earth will

January 18, 1969 (Regarding the "descent of the superman consciousness.) Oh, did I tell you? The other day, when the [Jain] sadhu came, as soon as he came in (he stood there), this atmosphere came from here up to there (Mother draws a half circle in front of her), it surrounded me like a wall. It was thick, luminous, and what strength it had! But then, it was wholly directed at him (gesture of forward projection). For me, it was visible, very material, like a rampart, about this thick (gesture: about a foot and a half), and it remained there as long as he was there. It was as if to keep him still! (Mother laughs) It was very amusing. So this consciousness is very consciously ac

August 30, 1969 Things are beginning to come for Auroville (Mother points to several written notes); there are many, many others, but there is above all the internal financial question: I would like there to be no money within Auroville (we would have to work out something), I would like money to be retained only for relations with outside. But that I haven't written; I wrote something else (Mother gives a first note). This I have told you several times: "Auroville wants to bethe cradle of the superman. Then, this one: "Auroville, the free international township. No army, no police .... Bravo! "... They are replaced by a battalion of guards, consisting of a

August 16, 1969 (Mother had advised Satprem to go for a walk on Auroville'sbeach so as to get some rest, but as it happened, someone absolutely insisted on accompanying him.) Nothing interesting ... How are you? You went for a walk with F? Yes, the other day we went for a stroll on the beach. Yes. Were you absorbed or something? Why? I don't know, she told me she felt you weren't there. So I wondered if ... Yes, it's true, I wasn't there. I felt somewhat like ... sweeping everything away. (Mother remains silent) Is it a mistake? No, not at all! Not at all, she was only afraid that ... She asked me, "Is Satprem in good health?..." I think yo

November 5, 1969 (The conversation begins an hour and a half late.) To tell the truth, I don't know what to do .... On Wednesdays and Saturdays, I keep things to a minimum, that is to say, I turn down more than half the people. And this is how it is. And the other days, sometimes I keep working till noon. It has become ... Yet I start early But the requests [to see Mother] come to me through at least one, two, three, four ... eight people: each of them brings requests. So there would be only one way, that's to have several bodies! I wanted to tell you something amusing. You know that I haven't played [music] there for two years - impossible. The other day it was Sunil