April 20, 1962 (Letter to Mother from Satprem) April 20, 1962 Sweet Mother, 1) I have received a letter from the publisher, who reiterates his requests for alterations. I am replying to him this very day that I will write another book. I have no idea how I am going to write the book! 2) I have finished the work you gave me. I will bring it to you when you wish, but there is no hurry at all - rest. Your child, Signed: Satprem Page 133

March 6, 1962 So, how are you? I don't know at all where I stand. You're neutral. Yes, I understand nothing at all. You're neutral - dull. That (laughing) makes it hard for you not to get irritated! Why? What has happened? Oh, nothing (Mother laughs), nothing in particular. Just the feeling that you'd jump if someone touched you! Really, I don't understand anything any more. I don't understand. I have absolute faith in Something Else - that's always been there, it doesn't waver. But ... there seems to be no progress. I see nothing ahead of me, nothing behind me, nothing. I don't know, I've already been here a good number of years and I don't feel I've made an inch of

July 11, 1962 (Referring back to the conversation of July 4: "One must die unto death to be born to Immortality.") When I said that, oh, you can't imagine, I had just been seeing it somewhere - somewhere in a dazzling light - and it was full of marvelous meaning. And of course when I uttered it I wondered why ... why it was no longer the same. It was absolutely wonderful, it explained ... not that it explained everything, but it was a revelation. There must have been some fault in the transcription. It all came back after you left. I looked and asked myself, "Why did I say it was so marvelous!" And I understood: when I saw it, I really SAW, saw those words, more dazzling than the most

January 15, 1962 You spoke last time of putting a body on a vital being. Is that being still alive? Who was it? I have spoken of this before. I told the story of the Chinese revolution, and how this being left me, saying.... It was just five years before the Chinese revolution. I've told the story. Page 43 I know I've told it - but it was never noted down. I used to dictate. Théon taught me to speak while in trance (that is, he had taught my BODY to express itself), and I would tell him everything I was doing while doing it. And he never noted any of it down - I suspect he did it on purpose: he wasn't interested in making revelations. So it's all lost. But had it

November 17, 1962 (Concerning the Sino-Indian conflict along the Himalayan border:) X wrote N. to announce - in precise and almost violent terms - that it was the beginning of a general upheaval, a catastrophic world war. Page 413 I know it's the will of that Asura I've mentioned to you several times, the Lord of Falsehood who was born the Lord of Truth, and who knows that his hour is at hand ("at hand" relative to that world there) and has declared he will cause as much havoc as he can before disappearing. Quite recently, just before the present conflict broke out, I went to a realm in the vital world which is right above the earth, like a platform (not a mountain top, bu

June 30, 1967 (About an Indian disciple from South Africa who has been jailed for a few months in Syria under the pretext that his banknotes were counterfeit.) ... They have no government to protect them. Before India's independence they had a British passport, but now the government of South Africa doesn't recognize them, the government of India doesn't look after them, so they're like that, neither fish nor fowl, and with no one to protect them. It's rather peculiar. There are a few here [in the Ashram] who still have a British passport, and they don't know what to do. They're neither this nor that, they're nothing I To those who are nice I say, "Never mind, you wil

August 5, 1967 (Mother gives Satprem a quotation from Sri Aurobindo.) "I have never known any will of mine for one major event in the conduct of the world affairs to fail in the end, although it may take a long time for the world-forces to fulfill it." Sri Aurobindo (October 1932) It's very interesting! I didn't know Sri Aurobindo had said that so openly.... I knew the fact, I had noted it, but I didn't know he had said it so openly. Interesting. Everything is certain. (Mother nods her head) Page 256

May 6, 1967 I made a speech to P. and A. (not "made a speech," but they told me about something and I started speaking), and P. tried to note it down. He hasn't read it to me, I don't know what he wrote; you can read it to me if you like. But wait.... On the morning of the 4th, when I got up (it was 4:30), suddenly I seemed to be sent ... well, it was as if I were sent a ball of lightning like this (Mother strikes her head). I said, "Ah, very well!" (Mother laughs) But it shook me! It was so strong that it shook me (I was sitting over there). Then came the explanation of the "message" for 4.5.67. It came in English. He told me, "You must say this, you must say this, you must ..." and it

January 28, 1967 Mother shows a note she has just written: I wrote this to someone here.... He hasn't been in India for a long time, and he doesn't understand anything about Indians - which isn't a crime, but he's full of scorn. Because he doesn't understand he is full of scorn. So I wrote him this: "One should be careful not to scorn what one does not understand, for innumerable are the marvels sealed from our narrow view. "The Lord has unsuspected splendors which He reveals progressively to our too limited under standing." Page 35 It's a whole category of ways of thinking. Those who think they have superior intelligence and scorn what they don't understand

July 5, 1967 You remember that man who had left for Israel - the Indian Embassy has refused him a visa to come back here! ...[[Because India does not recognize Israel. ]] So he is forced to go to America (America is his country, he is American), he is going to America, and then, he writes to me, he will make some money so he can come and bring it to me! Another boy here was to go and work in Germany with E., everything was arranged, then Germany said, "No, we don't want any Indians." So there's universal brotherhood. But with the Israel affair and the stand they have taken, theIndians haven't made many friends. No, they haven't. Oh, but from Holland a woman who was here wr