May 19, 1971 There is something from Nolini.... A thought came to him andhe wrote it down; it's about Mujibur, the man who led the revolution in Bangladesh and whom they imprisoned. Yes, he is now in Pakistan. Page 140 I don't know. But a thought came to Nolini and he wrote it down: Mujibur's Bengal risked her body but saved her soul. Indira's India neither risked her body nor saved her soul. I refuse. I don't want to say anything against Indira! Yes, but what happened is that he wrote this down, left it onhis table, and as usual people go by; they saw it, took it, copied it, and passed it around. Oh!... That's going to get us into great trouble! It's very

December 11, 1971 (At the start of this conversation, Satprem reads to Mother the text she had asked him to write for Indian radio for Sri Aurobindo's centenary. This text is included at the end. Then the conversation continues.) I'd like to ask you something about one of Sri Aurobindo'saphorisms. When the aphorisms were first published in the "Bulletin," you had said to omit this one. It's a rather mysterious aphorism -- which I must say I would like to unde rstand correctly. So, since we are going to bring out a complete edition of all the aphorisms, I would like to know if we should publish it or not.... Sri Aurobindo says this: Page 324 76 -- E

June 12, 1971 (First, Mother gives Satprem a few copies of the Swedish translation of the introduction to "Supermanhood," then Satprem reads several extracts from Sri Aurobindo for the next Bulletin.) "Every sadhak has by nature certain characteristics which are a great obstacle on the way of the sadhana; these remain with obstinacy and can only be overcome after a very long time by an action of the Divine from within. Your mistake is not to have these defects, others have defects of anger, jealousy, envy, etc. very strongly and not only have them within but show them very openly -- but to accept it as a reason for despair and the wish to go away from here. There is absolutely

April 10, 1971 I have found two quotations for the April Bulletin... "India, free, one and indivisible, is the divine realisation to which we move."[[The Doctrine of Passive Resistance, I.122. ]] April 1907 Sri Aurobindo Oh, that's very good! It's the current situation. "The end of a stage of evolution is usually marked by a powerful recrudescence of all that has to go out of the evolution."[[The Karmayogin, III.347. ]] 1909-1910 Sri Aurobindo That's just right, exactly what is needed!... They should be put in together. (Mother goes within) Do you have anything? Page 88 How do you see things? Dangerous. (Mother goes back within) It's better to say

M o t h e r's   A g e n d a   Undated Undated (Sometime in August the message that follows was circulated  in the Ashram and Auroville, and published in an Ashram  periodical. It is interesting to note that the text is an alteration  of a much older original text that Mother had given to Satprem. The original text is included afterwards.) "The task of giving a concrete shape to Sri Aurobindo's vision has been entrusted to the Mother. The creation of a new world, a new humanity, a new society, expressing and embodying the new consciousness, is the work undertaken by her. In the nature of things, it is a collective ideal calling for a collective effort to realize it in terms of an integral human p

September 15, 1971 Do you have something to say? You don't have anything? No, Mother, nothing encouraging. (Mother goes within for a half hour) Strange, there's a child beside you. A child who must be between one and two years old -- blond. And he is looking, he is putting his hand on your shoulder.... He's.... He seems very, very intelligent. (Mother goes back within) No questions? Who is that child? I don't know. I looked at him, he grew till he was about 10 years of age. And he stayed there. I saw him very young, two years old, then he grew, grew to about 10 years of age. He had his hand on your shoulder and was always looking at you like this (eyes wide open

June 9, 1971 (First Mother informs Satprem that the article on "Sri Aurobindo and Bangladesh" has been translated into Hindi and sent to Delhi.) There's an onslaught of adverse forces. A ferocious onslaught. But the Response is beginning to come -- just a very small beginning. In each person there was like a storm, and it's not completely over. Everything you thought was conquered and pushed away is rushing back -- in the most unexpected persons -- under every guise, but mainly in the character, oh!... doubts, revolts, everything.... (silence) I was asked for a message for all of India [in connection with the Bangladesh crisis]. I gave one. (Mother hands the text)

December 25, 1971 Good morning! It's the festival of Light: Christmas is the festival of the return of the Light -- it's much older than Christianity! -- when the days were beginning to grow longer (Mother laughs). And next Saturday is the first of January. I'll see you.... I hope that '72 is going to be better! (Mother nods her head) More and more I am convinced that we have a way of receiving things and reacting to them that CREATES difficulties -- I am more and more convinced of it. Because, for example, I have rather unpleasant physical and material experiences about food. You know that for a very long time now I have completely stopped being hungry (I eat only to

March 1, 1971 (A note of Mother's.) There is a Supreme Divinity, witness of all our actions, and the day for consequences will soon come. Page 57

July 21, 1971 What do you have to say? What about you? Me? I still have a cold. I was cured, I was almost cured, but ... (gesture of an avalanche). But this isn't interesting. What's interesting is that the body is becoming more and more conscious, but conscious in a very interesting way. For example? That would mean mentalizing. I can't. (silence) Page 199 I am beginning to know what's going to happen, what people are going to tell me, all that. How can I explain it?... It's as if I had BECOME the circumstances, the people, the words, the.... The body is more and more conscious, but not at all mentally -- like ... like things actually lived. I don't know how