October 5, 1966 About the financial situation, I have a little story to tell you, which took place on Sunday or Monday. I told you that the situation was quite ... to ordinary consciousnesses, it was critical. And there was a payment to be made. I don't remember the material details, but something had to be paid very urgently (I think it was to the workers: they were hungry and hadn't been given their money). And I needed a certain amount - which I didn't have: I had nothing. Then a sort of compassion came into me for those people who didn't have any money. I saw it wasn't right, and I couldn't do anything because there was none. So, in the evening while I was walking (I have an hour of

October 8, 1966 (The conversation is about Satprem's forthcoming birthday. We publish it despite its personal character, for the "rhythmic" significance of birthdays is of general interest and there is always, as Mother says, a curve from the past that doesn't readily connect with the curve of the future.) It will soon be your birthday.... I can see that what we call "birthday" is an opportunity to take stock. That's why people consult astrologers on certain dates. The individual has a certain relationship or set of relationships with the Universal, and there must be a rhythm, things recur automatically at the same point in time. So every year, it should be possible to take

August 15, 1966 (Message for Sri Aurobindo's birthday:) "Not the blind round of the material existence alone and not a retreat from the difficulty of life in the world into the silence of the Ineffable, but the bringing down of the peace and light and power of a greater divine Truth and consciousness to transform Life is the endeavour today of the greatest spiritual seekers in India. Here in the heart of such an endeavour pursued through many years with a single-hearted purpose, living constantly in that all-founding peace and feeling the near and greatening Page 174 descent of that light and power, the way becomes increasingly clear. One sees the soul of India ready to ent

M o t h e r's   A g e n d a   1966-11-23 November 23, 1966 After reading an excerpt from the debate with Death: If God there is he cares not for the world; All things he sees with calm indifferent gaze, He has doomed all hearts to sorrow and desire, He has bound all life with his implacable laws; He answers not the ignorant voice of prayer. Eternal while the ages toil beneath, Unmoved, untouched by aught that he has made, He sees as minute details mid the stars The animals's agony and the fate of man: Immeasurably wise, he exceeds thy thought; His solitary joy needs not thy love. (X.IV.646) Yes, but we need his joy. All this was said to me this morning. Abs

May 14, 1966 I have queer eyes.... They have become peculiar. This eye [the left] sees extremely clearly - extremely clearly - almost more clearly than before, but in the entire corner here, in the very corner, there is a sort of little fog, very, very small like a needle point - no, a pinhead. So that I can't read with it. With this one [the right] I can read, there's nothing, but it's dimmed: there isn't half the clarity of the other. But the left is fantastically clear! Very well. So I am accustomed to reading with a magnifying glass [with the right eye], and it has become that way; but when I look at a photograph with a magnifying glass, the photo starts having three dimensions (ges

SERIES ELEVEN Series Eleven To a sadhak of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. How can my effort to serve the Divine become more perfect? By wanting Him more and more in every part of your being – integrally. 11 October 1966 * In 1958 the Mother said, “If things go on advancing at this speed, it seems more than possible, almost evident, that what Sri Aurobindo wrote in a letter is a prophetic announcement: The supramental consciousness will enter a phase of realising power in 1967.”¹ Have things advanced at the required speed? Yes. 2 January 1967 * May I try to make my nights conscious? I pra

SERIES FOURTEEN Series Fourteen To a sadhak of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram We are at a moment of transition in the history of the earth. It is merely a moment in eternal time, but this moment is long compared to human life. Matter is changing in order to prepare itself for the new manifestation, but the human body is not plastic enough and offers resistance; this is why the number of incomprehensible disorders and even diseases is increasing and becoming a problem for medical science. The remedy lies in union with the divine forces that are at work and a receptivity full of trust and peace which makes the task easier. 18 November 1971 *

SERIES TEN Series Ten To a young captain in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Department of Physical Education. He began writing to the Mother at the age of nineteen. Sweet Mother, On the night of Friday the 8th, I had a very peculiar dream. As I could not tell it to You at the Playground, I am going to tell You now. It was a very fine day very special. There was an important meeting at the Playground, so I was hurry- ing there. But near the Playground in front of Standard Stores, the road was covered with innumerable snakes. I was taken aback and r

SERIES NINE Series Nine To a young teacher in the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. Sweet Mother, With what attitude should I read Sri Aurobindo's books when they are difficult and when I don't under- stand? Savitri, The Life Divine, for example. Read a little at a time, read again and again until you have understood. Sri Aurobindo says: “Yoga is nothing but practical psy- chology.”¹ What does this sentence mean? The whole paragraph is not clear to me. Because you know nothing about psychology. Study psychology and you will understand what he means. Sri Aurobindo says: “

SERIES THIRTEEN Series Thirteen To a student in the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education who began writing to the Mother at the age of sixteen. Sweet Mother, Should one give money to beggars or not? In a well-organized society, there should not be any beggars. But as long as there are, do as you feel. There are good reasons both for doing it and for not doing it. Blessings 8 July 1969 * There is no one for whom it is impossible to realise the Divine. Only, for some it will take many, many lives, whereas there are others who will do it in this very lifetime. It is a question of wi