December 30, 1967 (Mother extracts from a heap of papers, letters and envelopes of all kinds, a note on Auroville, which was based on her words but written from memory.) (Laughing) All this hangs together in a marvelous balance! Page 425 (Satprem reads out the note) "Auroville will be a self-supporting township. "All who live there will participate in its life and develop ment. "This participation may be passive or active. "There will be no taxes as such but each will contribute to the collective welfare in work, kind or money. "Sections like Industries which participate actively will contribute part of their income towards the deve

February 4, 1967 Mother comes in with a bad cold There were constant obstructions here, between the nose and the throat, and I was silly enough to complain about it; I said it really didn't make sense and it had better go - so then ... the drastic method. But this morning I was told to "rest," that is, to go within. I said I had other things to do - then it came over me forcibly! Which means that something suddenly comes to me, I see it, and then, quite naturally, I concentrate on it - and I realize I've gone away! It was like that this morning, while I was working. They are always sending me photos of people who went to get married (it has become a craze), and I am asked

December 20, 1967 Mother comes in forty-five minutes late There is obviously a will to abolish the sense of time, because ... It's very interesting, there are all kinds of experiences like that. I have work that would normally take thirty-six hours out of twenty-four, so naturally, I get later and later every day: I go to bed later and later, and I have to do the night's work, so sometimes I am late in the morning, at times I've been as much as one hour late. Then in the morning, with a certain concentration, in a half-hour I do what would normally take me an hour. I have learned a lot in that respect. Now, at this time [10:45 A.M.], I can see that the only fatigue is the sen

April 3, 1967 Mother holds out a paper to Satprem: Here is what I wrote for the opening of the sports season: "... I must tell you once more that for us spiritual life does not mean contempt for Matter but its divinization. We do not want to reject the body but to transform it. For this, physical education is one of the means most directly effective...." *** Last time, there was something I didn't have the time to tell you; now, regrettably, it's only a memory - not quite, not just a memory, something remains. The effect remains. But while it was there ... Sri Aurobindo said, but he said it as the expression of a knowledge that had always been expressed on th

October 4, 1967 (Sujata gives Mother a flower called "Power to heal.") Power to heal? ... I've read in Planète the story of a man born in 1905, who for thirty-five years has been healing people by the laying on of hands![[ Mother is referring to Alalouf. See Planète N¡ 35, July-August 1967. ]] His father was Italian, his mother Spanish, and he was born in France, he is French. For thirty-five years he has been practicing the laying on of hands; he has treated five million people - five million. Out of them two thirds were cured, and he has been sued countless times ... by doctors, naturally: he had no right to heal people because he wasn't licensed! ... At one of the trials (I'll te

January 20, 1968 (Mother gives Satprem a soup packet she hasn't even tasted.) You don't have the time to try it? It's no use. There is something trying hard to stop me from eating. I don't know.... I still eat out of ... (what should I say?) common sense, the old common sense. Of course, the body is still working in the old way, so the old means have to be used, but ... That's all. Page 34

June 15, 1968 Mother looks at an orange amaryllis It's pretty.... I don't know why, it always gives me the impression of a church.... Page 161 Yes, exactly! You too? Why?... It's very pretty. So I don't know why. It gives the impression ... of an artificial adoration! * * * Satprem reads Mother a letter of Sri Aurobindo: "In our yoga we mean by the subconscient that quite submerged part of our being in which there is no wakingly conscious and coherent thought, will or feeling or organized reaction, but which yet receives obscurely the impressions of all things and stores them up in itself and from it too all sorts of stimuli, of persistent habitual movements, c

November 30, 1968 For February 21 next, couldn't we broadcast at the Playground the recording of that very important conversation, you know, on the "central experience"? [[Conversation of November 23. Through the "Notes on the Way" or otherwise Satprem always wanted to make Mother's experience known to the Ashram, but did not at the time understand the reasons for her reluctance. ]] No. * * * Impossible to speak.... The body constantly feels it's learning - learning to live. And learning to be what it must be. Constantly, night and day. And that's all. It has everything to learn. And very acutely, the sensation that speech distorts, the word distorts.... The

November 23, 1968 I've had an interesting experience.... Not yesterday evening but the evening before, someone I won't name told me, "I am fully in the physical consciousness: no more meditations, and the Divine has become something up above, so far away...." Then, instantly, while he was speaking, the whole room FILLED with the divine Presence. "Oh," I told him, "Not up above: HERE, right here." And at that moment, EVERYTHING, the whole atmosphere ... you know, the very air seemed to change into divine Presence (Mother touches her hands, her face, her body): you understand, everything was touched, touched, permeated, but with ... above all, there was a dazzling Light, a Peace like th

January 1, 1968 (Message for the new year:) Remain young, Never stop striving towards Perfection. Mother Page 17