Undated Makest for it possible to bear the work of transformation. Page 388

Undated ... because the state of Nature that makes this necessary must be surpassed. We aspire for the time when it will no longer be necessary for Sri Aurobindo to die. Page 389

M o t h e r's   A g e n d a   Undated Undated The task of completing Sri Aurobindo's vision has been given to the Mother. The creation of a new world, a new humanity, a new society expressing and embodying the new consciousness is the work she has undertaken. Because of the very nature of things, it is an ideal that seeks to broaden the base of the attempt to establish harmony between body and Soul, Spirit and Matter, ... Page 389 ISBN 2-902776-33-0

June 28, 1967 Regarding an Italian disciple who has just come ... Her family wanted to baptize her child and they were beginning to quarrel (because I said, "We do not want baptism"), so they wrote to me in despair, saying, "We don't know what we should do, because the whole family is against us and they're constantly picking a quarrel with us." So I wrote: "If they really want freedom, let them come and give birth to the child in Auroville! ..." Oh, they were enthusiastic, she left right away! Here, see the register! (Mother laughingly shows the notebook in which she noted a few days ago the first birth in Auroville.) Page 198

March 15, 1967 The roses are open now (Mother holds out a rose to Satprem), but this one has a magnificent color. Beautiful, isn't it? This morning I had an amusing experience with roses. There was a closed bud - big, hard - big and hard, red. I took it, looked at it, then my fingers ran over the flower like that, and ... (gesture showing the flower opening up), one petal after another and another and yet another - before my very eyes. And it was completely hard and closed. I took it and said, "A pity." I was about to put it back in water so it would open up, and while I looked ... It was such a pretty sight, you know, opening up, happy, as if saying to me, "Oh, how happy I am!" F

December 6, 1967 I saw you last night. Oh, yes? Do you remember?... No. We were in the subtle physical. I saw lots of people: Purani [a departed disciple] and so on, people who are no longer on earth. It was in Sri Aurobindo's ... not his house, but his domain. I saw and did lots of things. There were people who live on earth and people who no longer do: they were all together. And at the end (for many details Sri Aurobindo was there, then he left), at the end I looked at all that, and for the first time in the subtle physical, I said, "Oh, how insipid and useless your life is, and flavorless, when you don't think of the Divine." The experience was so acute! So acute. T

June 21, 1967 A few days ago, I said something about Muslims and Israelites, and F. noted it down.... The impression it made on me (what should I say?) ... The whole life is gone, at any rate: it's hollow, dry, like an empty shell - well, the impression is of an unlit lamp. A lightless lamp! (Mother laughs) Here it is anyway: "The Muslims and Israelites [[Mother later explains (see p. 242) her dislike of the word "Jew." ]] represent the two religions in which faith in God is the most extreme. Only, the Israelites' faith is in an impersonal God, while the Muslims' faith is in a personal God. "Their enmity perhaps exists only because they are neighbors! ... I should add that it wa

October 19, 1967 It seems the Gospel announces a great battle for this year.... For this year, in the Gospel! Not this year, but it says there will be a terrible battle before the second coming of Christ.... As for me, I know nothing about that! But a lady disciple in Holland has written a letter: it seems everyone there is terror-stricken, there's a panic in the whole country (!) and they say it's the year of the battle. And here in India (not concertedly, of course), astrologers have said that September and October are months of a terrible battle (maybe not a war, but a battle) between Truth and Falsehood. There in Holland, it seems it's like in the year 1000: they gather for

November 29, 1967 Well, read me this letter. "Sweet Mother, in the Bulletin you said, 'Psychic memories... are unforgettable moments of life when the conscious ness is intense, luminous, strong, active, powerful, and sometimes also turning points in your life which gave it a new orientation. But never will you be able to describe the dress you wore or the gentleman with whom you spoke or the neighbors or the kind of field you were in.' (Questions and Answers of May 6, 1953) And regarding the memory of small details, you said, 'It's perfectly silly.' Page 392 "But then how is it that one often enough reads in newspapers the story of little chi

August 16, 1967 What did you feel at the darshan yesterday - not "darshan," at the meditation?... Nothing special? No, Mother. It was fine, but I don't know. Ah ... (in a disappointed tone). You were at home? No, in Sri Aurobindo's room. Oh.... Do you know, I sat down when it was nearly time [for the meditation], maybe half a minute before, and instantly, without warning, like a staggering blow: such a powerful descent (I was completely stilled) of something.... At the same time Sri Aurobindo seemed to tell me (because the definition came along with the "thing" - it was a vision which wasn't a vision, which was absolutely concrete), and the word was golden peace. But