July 5, 1969 There's some news of P.L. He is a bit discouraged. You know thathe had been excluded from the Pope's retinue just as the Pope was to make a speech in Geneva on "Christian unity" with the Protestants. So P.L. writes, "I started writing to you several times, but could not manage to end my letters. After the huge effort made to infuse the sentiments of openness that Mother had inspired me with, just as the Pope accepted to refrain from pro claiming himself as the 'Sole' possessor of the Truth and to put himself at the same level as the other creeds, Reaction had the upper hand and everything has remained as before .... That's it. " ... At the last

January 8, 1969 And this descent of the superman consciousness ... Did I tell you I had afterwards identified it? When you spoke last time, you had identified it. Yes, but I spoke of "supramental consciousness." Later, you said, "Maybe the superman?" Yes, that's it. It's the descent of the superman consciousness. I had the assurance of it afterwards. It was on the Is' of January after midnight. I woke up at 2 in the morning, surrounded by a consciousness, but so concrete, and NEW, in the sense that I had never experienced that. It lasted, quite concrete and present, for two or three hours, and then it spread out and went to find all those who could receive it. And

November 19, 1969 This morning about 8, I could have told you many things .... There was a day when many problems came up, following something that took place ... then this morning (at the end of the night) Page 432 I had the experience which was the explanation. And for two hours, I lived in an absolutely clear perception (not a thought, a clear perception) of ... the why and the how of the creation. It was so luminous, so clear! It was irrefutable. it lasted for at least four or five hours, then it settled; little by little the intensity and clarity of the experience diminished .... And also, I have just seen lots of people, so ... now it's hard to explain. But everythi

October 25, 1969 (The following conversation came in connection with two letterssent by the young Indian disciple who accompanied A.R., the healer, in his solitary retreat.) Page 390 October 21, 1969 Mr. A.R. asked me if I had finished reading the "Notes on theWay" again. As for me, I asked him if he had found something after his studies of these last two days. Then there was a stream of words. He said: "I haven't learned anything new. All that she [Mother] says I have known for twenty years. The very basis of my experience was the transformation of the cells, that was my starting point. According to what Mother writes, I think she only

December 13, 1969 I keep receiving almost daily some Aphorisms of Sri Aurobindo, which I had completely forgotten. There are really quite interesting things .... Some of them give me the exact impression of a clothing (we might say an intellectual clothing, but it's not that, it's from a higher mind, but it's mentalized, that is to say, accessible to thought), a clothing of the experience I had of the supramental Consciousness, in which the difference between good and evil and all that looked like childishness, and Sri Aurobindo expresses it in those Aphorisms in a manner accessible to intelligence. Only ... those who understand don't understand right! Because they understand below.

September 20, 1969 Have you seen this? (Mother holds out a note) Auroville is the ideal placefor those who want to know the joy and liberation of not having any more personal possession. It's the last thing that has come. "Personal possession" in the singular: I mean the sense of personal possession. (silence) Your healer has arrived, I am told. Yes, this morning, I think. So I asked A. to bring him to you - you're the one he has come to see. Me! Yes, of course (laughter), the author of your book! ... No, you can speak with him and see. You'll tell me how he is .... I put him up at "Castellini" because there's a large garden - I hope

M o t h e r's   A g e n d a   Vol. 10 - August 9, 1969 August 9, 1969 UNESCO want to publish a brochure on "tolerance," and they wrote to K. to ask him for a message from me. So I wrote something (Mother laughs), here it is: "Tolerance is only the first step towards wisdom. The need to tolerate indicates the presence of preferences. He whose consciousness is one with the Supreme Consciousness meets all things with a perfect equanimity" They puff themselves up like that, they still think themselves highly superior because they have "tolerance" - and tolerance is looking down on things with contempt. (silence) Page 283 Have I seen you since that experience? ... I spent one night (but I f

October 29, 1969 (The conversation begins an hour late.) It's awful! It's a pity for the Agenda, because when at 11 you've seen somany people ... How many times you told me, "Oh, I think I had something to tell you, now it's gone ..." It's a pity. Yes, but the whole of life is like that. I try and try, but everyone comes - for birthdays, for visits, for And yet I don't take everyone. It's become frightful. I want to do one thing: twice a week, the days when you come, I'll refuse to see people. I'll arrange something, because it's beginning to be impossible. I can't do the work in these conditions. *** (Then Mother listens to the Engli

March 12, 1969 (Regarding the Italian and the German translations ofSri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness.) Page 83 I have nothing to say But what about you? Anything? Just two things: N. (you know, the Italian) asks me to bring thisto you-the Italian translation of my book on Sri Aurobindo. Very well .... What's this? (Mother looks at the cover) What does it represent? It's from a painting, an Italian painting .... I even wonder if it'snot Christ? ... Wait, I'll tell you, there's a note here: "God created man. Ah! (Laughing) And which one is God? I don't know! Have they put photos? Yes, Mother, they're here. (Mothe

May 21, 1969 (Regarding a photograph that was taken just before Pavitra'scoffin was closed and lowered into the ground. Satprem was standing near the coffin, to Pavitra's right.) No news? Nothing from P.L.? No, Mother ... There's this [Satprem holds out an envelope]. What is it? The pension ... [such and such an amount]. Oh! ... Doesn't your mother need anything? (silence) I saw the photos - have you seen them? Have you been shown the photos? They took some there. I am telling you about it because there was something interesting .... There was a photo with you there (there was A., there was the governor, there was ...), just when you were all lowering the co