September 23, 1967 I've had another visit from Mrs. Z.... She is pertinacious. She won't let go! So what happened? I can sum it up in two words. She again told me about her religion, and I said, "But listen, if you are satisfied with that religion, follow it!" Then she said this: "But you have secrets which we don't have." Oh, so that's it.... Then what did you tell her? I told her I wasn't a guru, that if she wanted to follow this path, she had to have a guru and I wasn't here to spread the Good News. I told her, "If you walk alone on this path, you run the risk of taking your thoughts and desires for God's command ments, so it helps to

September 20, 1967 Someone has taken it into his head to print a brochure for February 21 next year [when Mother will be ninety], so they sent me the brochure and asked me to write a message on the first page. And for that brochure they have solicited (!) the opinion of all prominent people: there is Indira Gandhi, India's president, and what have you. And everyone says what has always been said millions of times over: "A great personality, this and that...." All the usual ineptitudes. So I wrote this: There is no other consciousness than the Supreme Consciousness. There is no other will than the Supreme Will. There is no other life than the Supreme Life. There is

May 26, 1967 (Regarding the New Year message: "Men, countries, continents! The choice is imperative: Truth or the abyss." A disciple asks Mother, "What is the meaning of 'abyss' in your New Year Message?" Mother's reply, in English:) Right now there is a great tension. They have all taken positions as if to start war. It is the blind passion that men put into their international relations. At the base of it all there is fear, general distrust, and what they believe to be their "interests" (money, business) - a combination of these three things. When these three lowest passions of humanity are brought into play, that is what I call "the abyss." When someone has dec

May 24, 1967 Yesterday, someone wrote to me and asked: "In the end, what is the Divine?" I answered. I told him that I gave one answer to help him, but that a hundred could be given, each as good as any other: "The Divine can be lived, but not defined.... Page 151 Here, I added, "But anyway, since you ask me the question, I will answer you." "The Divine is an absolute of perfection, eternal source of all that exists, whom we grow progressively conscious of, while being Him from all eternity." Once, Amrita also told me that for him, the Divine was something simply unthinkable. So I answered him, "No! That way, it won't help you. Just think that the

March 29, 1967 (Regarding the conversation of March 7 on "death," in which Mother said in particular: "There really is no such thing as death.... There is no radical change in the vibration of Page 85 consciousness.... You have a perception of the physical world which isn't absolutely identical but with an effectiveness which is sometimes greater...." Mother at first authorized the publi cation of this conversation in "Notes on the Way," then...) I begin to think that it is not good to give this kind of "livedknowledge" to people who are not capable of having it, of experi encing it. For instance, these last few days I have clearly seen that men do not

April 5, 1967 Mother writes a note on the windowsill It's the answer to a question. Have you heard what I said to the School's teachers?...[[See note in Addendum. ]] They've asked me another question. This is the beginning of my answer: "It is the division between 'ordinary life' and 'spiritual life' which is antiquated and obsolete...." *** (Then Mother gives Satprem roses and a garland of flowers called "adoration") Do you want this? (Satprem accepts unenthusiastically) Mon petit, when the cells get into this state, it's wonderful, you can't imagine! It changes life com-plete-ly. They are like that: a sense of wonder at the first Contact. "Is it possible? Can

September 9, 1967 (The "unbearable pressure") As soon as you want to do something, the whole opposite rises up in a mass ... with a degree of stupidity beyond all measure. Page 287 You want to create Harmony: everyone quarrels! Intelligent people seem to become stupid, they do silly things - this morning I have been spending all my time writing to stop people from doing foolish things.... Strange. Intelligent, responsible people, you understand, people who have worked for a long time - and ... tomfoolery. Oh, as soon as there comes a little power - the power of light, power of truth, power of love (the aspect of power in things) - as soon as that manifests (gesture of up

February 8, 1967 I have some interesting things to tell you. It's about that cold. An extraordinary healing power ... All the phases in their most acute form, with the study of the process, going through each phase in a few hours, or a few minutes (depending on what it was). When you have a cold, you usually go through one phase, then another (you know how it is), then it goes lower down, then there is a cough, then ... All of it was gone through quickly, and in two days it was over. And with the whole process, but not the mentalized process, not at all: the vibratory process, showing how the Force comes and acts, and at the same time ... Oh, it was very, very interesting, because the

September 30, 1967 Have you heard of the Pope's conversion? The Pope's conversion! No! I was very happy because it showed me that our conversations hadn't been in vain. I was wondering if he was conscious; I don't know if he was conscious mentally, but in any case it's interesting, you can read (Mother holds out a newspaper cutting to Satprem). Vatican City, September 26 The Pope, in an article published here last night, has said his journey to India in 1964 was "the revelation of an unknown world." Page 304 The Osservatore Romano published in an article excerpts from a forthcoming book of conversations with the Pope by a lifelong friend, the French philosopher an

March 25, 1967 (Satprem reads out to Mother an "old" conversation dating from ... two weeks ago.) ... It's gone. As soon as it's said, it's gone and away. When things are read back to me, I don't remember what I said, it comes like something new. As soon as it's expressed, it's gone. And always it's gone as though expressing meant emptying yourself of something and making room for a new thing - always. When you tell of an experience, the effect of the experience is as though exhausted and you are ready for another. Speaking always makes a void for a new thing to come in. And the impression is always: how old, oh, how old! I find everything old. The movement must be extremely