September 14, 1956 (Letter to Mother from Satprem) Hyderabad, September 14, 1956 Sweet Mother, Scarcely has a moment gone by since I left that I have not thought of you, but I wanted to wait for things to be clear and settled in me before writing, for you obviously have other things to do than listen to platonic declarations. My friends keep telling me that I am not ready and that, like R,' whom they knew, I should go and spend some time in society. Page 86 I. A former disciple who left the Ashram, and subsequently committed suicide. They say that my idea of going to the Himalayas is absurd, and they advise me to return to Brazil for a few years to stay wit

December 13, 1960 During these last days, I was face to face with a problem as old as the world which had taken on an extraordinary intensity. It's what Sri Aurobindo calls disbelief, and it's located in the most material physical consciousness - it isn't doubt (which mainly belongs to the mind), it is almost like a refusal to accept the obvious as soon as it doesn't belong to the little daily routine of ordinary sensations and reactions - a sort of incapacity to accept and recognize the exceptional. This disbelief is the bedrock of the consciousness. And it comes Page 491 with a ... ('thought' is too big a word for such an ordinary thing) a mental-physical activity

January 1959 Invocation Seigneur, Dieu de bonté et de miséricorde Seigneur, Dieu d'unité souveraine, Seigneur, Dieu de beauté et d'harmonie, Seigneur, Dieu de puissance et de réalisation, Page 340 Seigneur, Dieu d'amour et de compassion, Seigneur, Dieu de silence et de contemplation, Seigneur, Dieu de lumière et de connaissance, Seigneur, Dieu de vie et d'immortalité, Seigneur, Dieu de jeunesse et de progrès, Seigneur, Dieu d'abondance et de plénitude, Seigneur, Dieu de force et de santé, Seigneur, Dieu de paix et d'immensité, Seigneur, Dieu de pouvoir et d'invincibilité, Seigneur, Dieu de la Vérité victorieuse. Prends possession de ce corps,

August 12, 1958 (Letter from Mother to Satprem, travelling) 8.12.58 My dear child, Behind all the appearances and diverse entities, I am always present near you, and my love enfolds you. I have put the work aside and shall be happy to do it with you upon your return. My blessings never leave you. Signed: Mother Page 188 ISBN 2-902776-33-0

October 7, 1956 I cried towards the Light and Thou gayest me knowledge. Z asked me, 'Why didn't you stop it?" I replied, 'Probably because I am not omnipotent!' Then he insisted: 'No, that's not it. I make no distinction between your will and the divine will ... and I know that you don't either. So why didn't you stop it?' And suddenly, I understood. It was because I hadn't thought of it. It hadn't even grazed my consciousness. The divine will is not at all like that, it is not a will: it is a VISION, a global vision, that sees and ... No, it does not guide (to guide suggests something outside, but nothing is outside), a creative vision, as it were; yet even then, the word

May 28, 1959 (Letter to Mother from Satprem) Pondicherry, May 28, 1959 Mother, I do not want you to suffer because of me, for there is already too much suffering in this world. I shall do what you wish. I will go to Rameswaram and I will stay there as long as X wants. I have seen that there is no happy solution. So I bow before the circumstances. 1. The disciple's tantric guru. Page 305 If it is not too tiring for your eyes, I would like you to read what follows. I want to tell you what I have seen, very clearly. After the wave of rebelliousness this morning, I was seized by a great sadness, a great bitterness, as though I were being confronted with a profound injust

January 1959 Ô seigneur, qu'il est doux d'avoir besoin de Toi! ... (translation) O Lord, how sweet it is to need You! ... Page 344 ISBN 2-902776-33-0

October (?) 1955 (Letter to Mother from Satprem) Pondicherry Mother, after seeing you, I received a letter from my Bangalore friends. They have just bought an old Mogul residence and gardens in Hyderabad that used to belong to the Nizam ... They suggest that their new property would be an enchanting setting for writing the book I have felt like writing for years but never wrote because I was always on the move. Anyway, they have made it clear that should I have qualms about staying with them too long, it would be easy for them to find me some lucrative work that would not be too time consuming - which would allow me to write or do whatever I wish - with their friend the Mahar

May 2, 1956 (Extract from the Wednesday class) Sweet Mother, you said, 'The Supramental has come down on earth.' What does this mean, exactly? You also said, 'The things that were promised are fulfilled.' What are these things? Oh, really! How ignorant! It has been promised for such a very long time, it has been said for such a very long time - not only here in the Ashram, but ever since the beginning of the earth. There have been all kinds of predictions, by all kinds of prophets. It has been said, 'There will be a new heaven and a new earth, a new race shall be born, the world shall be transformed ...' Prophets have spoken of this in every tradition. You said, 'They a

Undated 1958 For me, the subtle physical is far more real than this distorted world, but to see it you have to be conscious there, whereas people want to get effects which give them the impression of the marvelous and the miraculous and they want the subtle physical to become visible in the material world IN SPITE OF the falsehood. What makes the great difference for the ordinary physical consciousness is this: it wants to come into contact with that in spite of the falsehood, whereas the universal law is, get out of the falsehood and that will become true for you. For me, this subtle world is far more real than the material world - much truer, much more tangible, concrete, real -