M o t h e r's   A g e n d a   Undated Undated ... because I do know nobody who could make a grown-up body into which I could step without losing my consciousness. Page 388 ISBN 2-902776-33-0

December 13, 1967 Did you feel the earthquake?... It was in the morning of the day before yesterday, at 4:30. I didn't feel anything. But some people felt it and told me. Over there it was quite bad. [[In the Indian state of Maharashtra. ]] My mother reached Bombay on that day and felt it. All the dogs were howling; for three seconds houses were shaken. A small town has completely disappeared. [[The village of Konya. ]] But it's strange.... I wasn't asleep but was outside my body, so I didn't notice anything. It didn't wake up my body. But it must have been very weak here. I was awake but didn'tfeel anything. Page 411 (silence) Is there something beh

January 11, 1967 ... In the afternoon, the lists [of appointments] have lengthened to such a point that I have no time left. Before, I used to start my daily work (the mail to be signed and so on) at 3:30, then it became four, and now it's quarter to five. There was a time when I finished at four, so I did the translation of Savitri (that was a very, very long time ago); later I finished at 4:30, so I still had time to take something, eat a little; now I finish after five, so (laughing) that settles it! It MUST be like that since it is like that. It's perhaps a lesson (it's an indication), but there is a purpose to it.[[This long phase of "invasion" from outside, which had start

May 10, 1967 (Satprem reads Mother an old Playground talk of May 23, 1956, in which Mother suddenly asked various questions about the pronunciation of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.) Was there something special that triggered your questions? At one time, I was very interested in knowing about it. I tried to recall the memory of the elements that lived at that time, but ... Yes, you say, "I wondered how they retrieved the names of the pharaohs and gods." Then you ask, "Is the Egyptians' language contemporary with the most ancient Sanskrit, or still more ancient?... Or is there another human language older than the oldest Sanskrit?" You also ask, "Is this hieroglyphic Egyptian langu

November 15, 1967 Anything to say? No, the feeling is that unless something miraculous happens inthe way men understand it, well, it will take many centuries. But you never expected it not to take any time!? Obviously not. But I never thought, I never believed it could come fast. First of all, if one just tries with one's own body, as I do, one soon sees the difference between matter as it is, its constitution as it is, and ... well, and what we may conceive of a divine existence - "divine," that is, not tied down every second to the darkness of a nearly unconscious matter.... How long will it take? How long did it take to change the stone into the plant, the plant in

February 21, 1967 (Message for Mother's eighty-ninth birthday) When darkness deepens strangling the earth's breast And man's corporeal mind is the only lamp, As a thief's in the night shall be the covert tread Of one who steps unseen into his house. A voice ill-heard shall speak, the soul obey, A power into mind's inner chamber steal, A charm and sweetness open life's closed doors And beauty conquer the resisting world, The truth-light capture Nature by surprise, Page 61 A stealth of God compel the heart to bliss And earth grow unexpectedly divine. Sri Aurobindo (Savitri, I.IV.63) Page 62

September 3, 1967 (Regarding Auroville's beach, where Satprem now often goes in the evening for a stroll. The beach is some four miles from Pondicherry.) I find the atmosphere different. Over there?... It's wonderful. Yes, but there is a very different atmosphere, I don't know ifit's in my consciousness. Something is missing? ... It [Mother's atmosphere] doesn't reach up to there? I don't know, I don't feel "surrounded" as I do here. When Sri Aurobindo was here and I used to go out, I would feel his atmosphere as far as the lake. [[Some six miles from Pondicherry. ]] Then, as soon as I went beyond, it would thin out and then vanish. But I thought that there

M o t h e r's   A g e n d a   July_1965 July, 1965 Om, Supreme Lord, God of kindness and mercy. Om, Supreme Lord, God of love and beatitude. I am tired of our infirmity, but it is not to rest that this body aspires, it aspires to the plenitude of Your consciousness, it aspires to the splendor of Your light, it aspires to the magnificence of Your power - above all, it aspires to the glory of Your all-powerful and eternal love. Page 387 ISBN 2-902776-33-0

January 9, 1967 Are you tired? No ... I can't say "tired," I don't feel tired.... I am very ... very deep within. I feel I am there (gesture above the head), and usually it's not like that. Since this morning I've had the feeling of being there (same gesture), and it's extremely strong there, as if something were being done. I feel work is being done (at night also). I don't know if it's an effect of your experience, but I have Page 17 great difficulty being in physical things: in words, gestures, all outward things. A great difficulty. It began yesterday, with the sense of a very widespread action taking place. Page 18

April 13, 1967 (A note from Mother to Satprem, who is in a bad mood) Satprem, my dear little one, We're still friends anyway! Tenderness Signed: Mother Page 107 April 15, 1967 Have you read this report on LSD? What's your impression? It's interesting. They have experiences that aren't just on the level of brute sensation. That drug does release the consciousness, all the same. (Mother remains silent) It releases from the whole habit of formations. Page 107 Ah, yes, that, surely. But he himself says it's better to begin with a guide. But do you hold the same opinion after reading the end?Because you hadn't read the whole thing