February 11, 1967 (Regarding Mother's "Agenda." Satprem is sorting out a huge stack of files.) ... Now that bits are coming out in the Bulletin, lots of people are beginning to be very, very interested and want to know. They ask me, "But are you saying everything?" I answer, "Everything, that's impossible. But I am saying more." Then, "Can't we know?" - No one would understand a thing. When it's completely over, we'll see. I am telling you this so you know this work isn't wholly in vain. Oh, but I'm sure it's not in vain, I am convinced of it! I don'tneed to be reassured. It will be a monument! It's better to leave it as a monument, not to publish it in bits: ma

September 13, 1967 (Still regarding Mrs. Z, the Catholic lady who hovers around the Ashram.) I have a nasty little story to tell you.... The other day, I forget when, F. met Mrs. Z, who told her (she too was in a concentration camp), "I would like ..." (word for word) "I would like Satprem to go back to the concentration camp to see if his reaction now would be different!" F. was so indignant that she couldn't help telling her, "But that is a monstrous desire to have!" There's my story: "I'd like him to go back to the concentration camp to see! ..." But the marvel is that I feel I could be sent anywhere, anything could happen to me, even the worst things, and ... noth

June 7, 1967 I have something to add to what we said the other day about the Divine. [[See Conversation of May 24: What is the Divine? ]] Someone asks me, "And whatever is God?" It's about a text from Sri Aurobindo. Here it is: Page 169 "Love leads us from the suffering of division into the bliss of perfect union, but without losing that joy of the act of union which is the soul's greatest discovery and for which the life of the cosmos is a long preparation. Therefore to approach God by love is to prepare oneself for the greatest possible spiritual fulfillment." (The Synthesis of Yoga, XXI.III.523) It's about the last sentence; someone has asked m

November 8, 1967 (Mother first reads out for All India Radio the message she intends to broadcast for February 21, 1968, on the occasion of her ninetieth birthday.) "It is not the number of years you have lived that makes you old. You become old when you stop progressing. As soon as you feel you have done what you had to do, as soon as you think you know what you ought to know, as soon as you want to sit and enjoy the results of your effort, with the feeling you have worked enough in life, then at once you become old and begin to decline. When, on the contrary, you are convinced that what you know is nothing compared to all that remains to be known, when you feel that what y

M o t h e r's   A g e n d a   Undated Undated The task of giving Sri Aurobindo's vision a concrete form has been given to the Mother. Page 389 ISBN 2-902776-33-0

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

May 20, 1967 (Mother gazes at a flower she called "divine purity": lobelia longiflora.) Can you tell me what divine purity is?... I no longer know. What can it mean? Page 148 Obeying the true Impulsion? If we mean "divine purity in beings," I quite understand, but if we mean "the Divine's purity," I no longer understand. Divine purity in beings means they are closed to any influence except the Divine's. (Mother counts the petals) Five petals ... *** Soon afterwards I go on seeing throngs of people whom I don't know. And with more than half, it's per-fect-ly useless: curiosity, pride, bragging. That's all. So they can say, "Oh, you know, I saw the Mother." So

October 5, 1967 (From Satprem to Mother) Sweet Mother,I have seen the monk. My impression is favorable nevertheless. With love Signed:Satprem Page 326

M o t h e r's   A g e n d a   1967-05-10 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 hierog

May 27, 1967 Do you remember S.B.? He was here.... He was a man with many disciples, he had yogic powers. He came here and was thunderstruck, as it were, when he saw Sri Aurobindo: he fainted. He Page 156 said afterwards it was because of the power of the revelation. He stayed here for years and years; he lived there, downstairs. Then he went away; you see, he used to receive all his disciples here, so I said, "No, that won't do, it's better to have a room elsewhere." Then he left. And for years and years he wasn't heard of again. He has been making contact again lately (I have seen him relatively often at night), and he's made contact again with such ardor, such enthusiasm! He ha