August 19, 1967 This morning, for two hours, I had what I believe to be really the most wonderful experience in my life from the point of view of knowledge-vision. And it was so total ... from the most essential perception of That which is beyond the creation down to the perception of the body's cells, from high to low. And in every plane, the vision of the creation. It went on for two hours. I walked about, had my wash - it didn't matter in the least, on the contrary there was, added to that, the knowledge of how the body can act without disturbing the state of consciousness. Page 264 Afterwards, there was a slight flagging, because there came ... I can't say the memory (it

October 30, 1967 I have been asked for a message to be broadcast on February 21 all over India by radio. I said, "All right, I'll give one." But they want to have it in advance. And I saw so clearly that if I gave it now, it would belong to the period of Kali, of the struggle - I have a strong feeling that from next year the atmosphere will ... (gesture of lifting) will clarify. I don't know why. So it would be better to wait till January. Because mentally one can always imagine and say something, but with me it doesn't work like that: it comes or doesn't come. So a whole number of things come, but they belong to a certain state of consciousness, and it's not the state of consciousnes

January 14, 1967 (As she comes into her room, Mother stops in front of a tray of flowers that has just been brought and takes in her hand a strange new variety of hibiscus, gray-mauve with a bright red pistil.) Oh, this is really my joy! Page 20 What's this flower? ... (Mother takes the hibiscus) It has a strange color. Yes, I've never seen it. It's strange, with this red dot here. Very strange. It gives me a strange sensation.... How can I explain it? Oddly, it's something between deceit and perversion, yet it's divine! How do you like that! You mean there's something false in the flower's appearance? No, it's not the outside: it's inside. I

August 15, 1967 (Message for Sri Aurobindo's ninety-fifth birthday:) "But in any case the Divine Power is working always behind and one day, perhaps when one least expects it, the obstacle breaks, the clouds vanish and there is again the light and the sunshine. The Page 261 best thing in these cases is, if one can manage it, not to fret, not to despond, but to insist quietly and keep oneself open, spread to the Light and waiting in faith for it to come: that, I have found, shortens these ordeals." Sri Aurobindo Page 262

M o t h e r's   A g e n d a   Undated 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 ISBN 2-902776-33-0

February 15, 1967 (The following conversation was noted down from memory. It occurred apropos of a young disciple who did not understand how everything - impulsions, desires, etc. - could come from "outside," from universal Nature, while Sri Aurobindo other wise declares, "I become what I see in myself.") Page 50 I told him once that he would begin to be intelligent when he became capable of setting all opposites face to face and bringing them into a synthesis. What they lack is the sense of the fourth dimension, so they don't understand. There, everything holds together, in a very concrete, palpable way, the "outside" and the inside. As for Théon, he insi

January 21, 1967 (Regarding the English translation of extracts from recent conversations published in the Ashram's Bulletin under the title "A Propos.") ... What they especially lack is the sense of a FORCE in the language. Page 29 What makes things very difficult is that, in fact, there is no one who has the experience I have. That's what is missing. You understand well only what you have experienced. If you try to understand all that mentally, you can't, it's not possible; a keen way of feeling has gone. I read this "A Propos" to A. and Pavitra (you can't find people better disposed and more eager to understand), but all the subtlety was gone! - They didn't unde

Undated The task of giving Sri Aurobindo's vision a concrete form has been given to the Mother. Page 389

July, 1965 The other states of being, the vital, the mind, may enjoy the intermediary contacts. The supreme Lord alone can satisfy me. Page 387

April 22, 1967 (Mother gives Satprem a letter and newspaper cutting she has just received from America about LSD. There is also the photo of a poster inviting people on a "trip.") They look half mad - a bit more than half! Would you like to publish in the next Bulletin what you said about LSD? No, I think that would be giving them far too much importance. In America, it has become rather frightening.... There are a considerable number of people who take this drug. I don't think it's possible to stop them - they'll go on taking it till serious accidents happen, and then ... then the government will intervene and will add another blunder to this one. (silence) T