April 24, 1956 * The manifestation of the Supramental upon earth is no more a promise but a living fact, a reality. It is at work here, and one day will come when the most blind, the most unconscious, even the most unwilling shall be obliged to recognize it. Page 75 ISBN 2-902776-33-0

November 25, 1959 There is a difference between immortality and the deathless state. Sri Aurobindo has described it very well in Savitri. The deathless state is what can be envisaged for the human physical body in the future: it is constant rebirth. Instead of again tumbling backwards and falling apart due to a lack of plasticity and an incapacity to adapt to the universal movement, the body is undone 'futurewards,' as it were. There is one element that remains fixed: for each type of atom, the inner organization of the elements is different, which is what creates the difference in their substance. So perhaps similarly, each individual has a different, particular way of org

Undated 1957 (Note from Mother to Satprem) It is within oneself that one finds the Pretentaine.' 1. Pretentaine: name of the boat on which Satprem wanted to sail around the world alone. Page 126 ISBN 2-902776-33-0

June 25, 1959 (Letter to Mother from Satprem) Rameswaram, June 25, 1959 Sweet Mother, X told me to tell you what he has seen of my previous lives (but my impression is that he did not tell me everything and that there are elements about which he wants to speak to you personally). To begin with, I must tell you a dream that I had here in Rameswaram a few days after my arrival. I was being pursued and I fled like an assassin - it is a dream I have had hundreds of times for years, but in this dream, there was a new element: while being pursued, I climbed a kind of stairway to try to escape when suddenly, in a flash, I saw a feminine form hurtling into a void. Page 321 I s

December 20, 1960 Regarding Christmas, I'll tell you a curious story. For a while, there was a Muslim girl close to me (not a believer, but her origins were Muslim; in other words, she wasn't at all Christian) who had a special fondness for Santa Claus! She had seen pictures of him, read some books, etc. Then one year while she was here, she got it into her head that Santa Claus had to bring me something. 'He has to bring you something for Christmas,' she told me. 'Try,' I replied. I don't know what all she did, but she prayed to him to bring me money. She fixed a certain sum. And on Christmas Eve, exactly this sum was given to me! And it was a large sum, several thousan

Early May 1959 (Letter to Mother from Satprem) Pondicherry Sweet Mother, I have just spoken for a few minutes with X. He came out of your room extremely 'moved' (in his deep way). 'I was standing before Mother and I no longer knew where I was. At the end of fifteen minutes, I found myself there.' And several times, he said, 'Great Power, Great Power ... An Ocean. She ONLY can understand ...' And as I expressed my surprise - for while going to your room, he had told me that he would begin this special 'japa' standing before you only tomorrow - he told me, 'When I went into Mother's room, I felt the Order come from above, and I began immediately.' He told me that this

January 21, 1959 (Letter to Mother from Satprem) Rameswaram, January 21, 1959 Sweet Mother, Here is what X told me: 'I have received a message from my guru.# In my vision, the Mother was there, next to my guru, and she was smiling. My guru told me that your present difficulties are a period of testing, but I could already give you the first stage of tantric initiation and that for you, the three stages of initiation 1. The French translation of Sri Aurobindo's Thoughts and Aphorisms. 2. X's deceased guru. Page 272 could be done in an accelerated way. I will therefore give you initiation this Friday or Saturday, on the day of the full moon or the day before

June 13, 1959 (Letter to Mother from Satprem) Rameswaram, June 13, 1959 Sweet Mother, I have received your last two letters of the 10th and 11th. I told X what you wrote about this trip to France and that your finances are in an 'almost desperate' state. He replied with perfect Page 318 assurance, 'Soon it will increase, very soon it will change.' I am obviously hesitant to accept your generous offer and I do not know what I should do. I had never thought of returning to France, except in a distant future. I don't know why X told me that I should return there, except perhaps because he felt who my mother is. I know that she is sad, that she believes me lost to her and

M o t h e r's   A g e n d a   Undated_1956 Undated 1956 (b) (Letter to Mother from Satprem) Pondicherry Sweet Mother, with all the sincerity of which I am capable, I am putting before you an important problem (important to me) so that you may help me resolve it. I feel that I am coming to a decisive turning point, but something is preventing me from going any further. All my past is weighing down on me, not because of any attachments, for I regret NOTHING of my past and my only hope is what lies before me. Yet I have not entirely undergone all this like a marionette, it even seems to me that 'I' have created it, composed it like a book - for the last fifteen years, from the time of the concentration

June 1958 (At the time of publishing the following conversation of March 19, 1958, in the Ashram 'Bulletin,' Mother added certain com mentaries that have a direct bearing upon the preceding con versation about the Last Judgment, and She incorporated an entire passage from the conversation of the end of February 1958 on the same subject.) One thing seems clear: humanity has reached such a generalized state of tension - tension in effort, tension in action, tension even in daily life - with such an excessive hyperactivity, such an overall restlessness, that the species as a whole seems to have reached a point where it must either burst through the resistance and sur