February 3, 1971 Now I am ready to listen to you. We also need a message for the 21st of February. What message? I don't know. What do you suggest?... I can say something, or else we can find a quotation. If you want to say something.... (silence) Well, I always say the same thing: a life consecrated to union with the Divine is the only life worth living.... A life consecrated to the Divine is the only life worth living. Will that do? Yes, Mother, it certainly will! You'll have to come here (to the right) to read, because.... I am better, I am reeducating my eyes, they're starting to see better. And I am going to reeducate my ear -- this one (the righ

March 4, 1971 (Mother replies to an Aurovillian:) (Question:) You said you did not want to make rules forAuroville. But recently you wrote, "Drugs are forbidden in Auroville." Have you changed your view of Auroville? Perhaps Aurovillians have not yet attained the level of consciousness expected of them. * * * "You must rise high enough in your consciousness so as to be above contradictions. That is the solution." Page 62

December 29, 1971 (Mother caresses Satprem's swollen eye.) No, no, it really doesn't hurt, Mother! ... Do you have anythingnew? It's moving -- moving fast. Because it's moving fast, it's excessive (gesture of straining). For example, during the same meal, I eat without even noticing it, solely in the divine consciousness, then all of a sudden I am back -- and I can't swallow anymore! I choke. It's very extreme, because it's going so fast. But I know what it is. I just gave a meditation to X.[[A Tantric adept to whom Mother gives a meditation every year on his birthday. ]] It is not AT ALL what it used to be ... (what shall I say?). There's a sort of quiet authorit

January 30, 1971 (Again Mother is not well, she receives Satprem an hour late. And first she sees Satprem's mother for a few minutes.) So, how do you find him? (Satprem's mother, solid as a Breton rock:) Quite well. He has written a splendid book. I am counting on this book to revolutionize the world.... You can be proud of your son. (Satprem's mother smiles and goes out) Well, you have brought the book? You want me to read to you this morning? Of course, that's what I am waiting for! Are you sure you're not too tired? Oh, that doesn't tire me. That's not what tires me. What's tiring you right now? My system is beginning to refuse to work in the old

April 11, 1971 (Satprem has protested the "Nietzschean" jacket of "Super manhood" in which "superman" was printed in French in enormous letters, and protested also the sales methods of that Press. This raised a storm. It is hard to know exactly what was reported to Mother, but she sent Satprem a rather severe note. What eluded Satprem completely then was a latent animosity against him, evidently because he was Mother's confidant. He lived completely apart from the Ashram factions and coteries; he only went out of his house to be besieged by visitors, which brought him another sort of animosity. These facts are included here for the sake of accuracy and c

August 25, 1971 (Mother sits looking at Satprem for what seems a very long time. Her left eye is still swollen.) Something to ask? Do you see something? No, there's nothing. Page 222 (Mother remains absorbed for 40 minutes) What would you like to say? What is absorbing you like this?[[Approximately at that time, a former disciple, Rani Maitra, wife of the former chancellor of Benares University, was dying without Mother's knowing anything about it in her outer consciousness. ]] (after a silence) All the time, all the time, there is the "thought" of the Divine, but like a ... a kind of -- thirst to be and to understand. All mental notions seem artificial t

February 27, 1971 What news do you have?... (long silence) The problem is food. The doctors have put restrictions on everything I eat most easily, so it's.... Basically, I realize more and more that we live in total Page 51 ignorance. We really don't know either what should be done or how to do it. But surely that New Consciousness should make one do whatis necessary. I think we don't know how to listen. We don't know how to listen.... (silence) It's very difficult to disentangle the old impulse from the.... Yes, exactly. It's very difficult. Very difficult. You see, our practical knowledge is based on an experience that has become wort

May 27, 1971 (Extract from Satprem's notebook) Pranab-desh. [[What made Satprem put this laconic note in his notebook, what was the occasion, the reason? It is like a forewarning, which we shall leave as it is. Pranab is the name of Mother's "guard." Desh = territory or country. ]] Page 152

July 24, 1971 It's not over yet (gesture of tugging).... And you? I don't know, Mother. How are you? I don't know ... all right, I guess. (Mother laughs) You surely know better than I! I tell you, we are no longer here, we are not yet there.... So it seems stupid. The body is more and more conscious, and it is conscious of the old habits that pull backwards but it is also conscious of the new possibilities that are there, that try to.... There's only one movement to make, a movement of adherence, and ... everything would be all right -- MARVELOUSLY all right. The old thing is like an old wall being torn down. That's it. So it's quite a ridiculous situation. The body

February 13, 1971 (Mother reads her message for Indian radio.) "True liberty is an ascending movement, not yielding to the lower instincts. Page 47 True liberty is a divine manifestation. We want the true liberty for India so that she may be the right example for the world as the demonstration of what humanity must become." * * * (After the reading of Chapter 14 of On the Way to Supermanhood, "The Victory over Death.") I have the feeling of a new consciousness being formed. Page 48