June 23, 1971 (Mother listens to the reading of various letters of Sri Aurobindo for the next Bulletin and selects this one:) "What your vital being seems to have kept all along is the 'bargain' or the 'mess' attitude in these matters. One gives some kind of commodity which he calls devotion or surrender and in return the Mother is under obligation to supply satisfaction for all demands and desires spiritual, mental, vital and physical, and, if she falls short in her task, she has broken her contract. The Ashram is a sort of communal hotel or mess, the Mother is the hotel-keeper or mess-manager. One gives what one can or chooses to give, or it may be nothing at all except the afo

May 30, 1971 (Sujata's visit to Mother) Falsehood has become acute and terrible. It has to go, so it's clinging. Since yesterday it's become so terrible that no one can be trusted. Page 153 June

January 27, 1971 (Mother hands to Satprem a note that she sent to an Aurovillian) "It is the old methods of yoga that demand silence and solitude. The yoga of tomorrow is to find the Divine in work and in contact with the world." * * * (Then a quotation from Sri Aurobindo that Mother wants to include in the next "Bulletin.") "The power that works in this yoga is of a thorough- going character and tolerates in the end nothing great or small that is an obstacle to the Truth and its realisation." Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga, XXIII. 803 * * * Tell me, the introduction to your book[[On the Way to Supermanhood. ]] was supposed to be published in January.... But

November 27, 1971 So, how are you? So-so. So-so!... I have some notes that can be used for February -- things I said. (Mother hands a piece of paper to Satprem) "A victory won over the lower nature willgive a deeper and more lasting joy than any outer success." And then this (Mother hands another paper). This is an experience I had yesterday ... (Mother smiles with her eyes closed). All of a sudden I saw -- I saw the world in another way. For a moment, all of a sudden I saw as ... as the Divine sees the world, you understand? There was no longer the human vision. And I saw something so marvelous.... It was so marvelous I can't describe it. Then slowly the huma

August 11, 1971 (Mother gives Satprem a note she has just written.) "When men become disgusted with the falsehood they live in, then the world will be ready for the reign of Truth." * * * (Then another note she had had read to K.K. Birla, one of India's foremost industrialists.) "Truth is within men's reach, but they care nothing about Truth." * * * You have something to say? What is happening right now? (Mother sits with her eyes closed, tries several times to speak, then goes back within until the end) You have nothing else to say? How do you see that pact? [[The Indo-Russian pact which has just been signed in Delhi by Gromyko and Swaran Singh. This i

October 23, 1971 (Satprem reads to Mother a letter from G., which ends with the following question.) He asks a question? Yes, at the end he says: "Mother, what sort of change may takeshape in life if one becomes just Thy Will but nothing else?" (after a silence) Supreme Peace, certitude, and even the functioning of the body can change. Page 274 (Satprem has not heard well:) You said Supreme Peace.... Supreme Peace is established and becomes constant, and then.... Then the functioning of the body can change. And certitude in the action also. A certitude in the action when you do things. That's all? It's very difficult to know what to do.... You ge

March 3, 1971 (After having approved the layout of the jacket for "Supermanhood" designed by Sujata.) You have nothing to ask? Page 57 I have the feeling your look has changed a lot.... (Mother nods) For about a year now, and increasingly so, it has resembled SriAurobindo's look. Well ... (smiling) it's possible! Before, your look was a "diamond look," a look ... it was you,it was powerfully you. Now, it's ... it's becoming like infinity. Oh, but my way of seeing isn't the same. Yes, as a matter of fact, Sujata wanted to ask you: when you look at people that way, what do you see? I think I see ... the most exact thing to say is their condition, t

December 13, 1971 (A note by Mother) Communications from the psychic do not come in a mental form. They are not ideas or reasonings. They have their own character quite distinct from the mind, something like a feeling with a self-contained meaning and influence. By its very nature, the psychic is calm, quiet and luminous, Page 331 understanding and generous, wide and progressive, it is forever striving for understanding and progress. The mind describes and explains. The psychic sees and understands. Page 332

March 31, 1971 You haven't spoken of Sri Aurobindo in a long time. Me, I have nothing to say. Page 75 What about Sri Aurobindo, is he saying anything? (after a silence) He's very busy with ... (gesture to the north) with everything happening in the country. It's serious, you know. But what is India waiting for? Waiting for what? Well, to recognize that country.[[To recognize officially the "provisional government" of Bangladesh under the leadership of Sheikh Mujibur. Only eight months later, on December 6, would India recognize Bangladesh. ]] Oh, she has recognized it! No, Mother, she hasn't. They told me.... She has expressed her "sympathy," that

August 28, 1971 Well, what's new? ... What do you want or have to tell me?... Nothing? Nothing, or always the same thing, rather. What's that? I'm waiting. Oh, you're waiting! So am I! (laughter) (silence) It's as if all the ways of seeing the world were passing by one after the other: the most detestable and the most marvelous -- like this, like that, like this ... (Mother turns her head like a kaleidoscope), and they all come to tell me: "See, you can look at it this way, you can look at it that way, you can...." But the Truth ... what is true?... What is true?... There is all that (same kaleidoscopic gesture), and "something" we don't know. First of all, I