Now I know, I remember, this whole experience came after I saw a book that was published quite recently in India, in English, which they entitled The Roll of Honour, and in which there is a photo and a short biography of all those who died in the fight against the British, for India's freedom. There were photos everywhere, lots of them (some were only photos the police took after they had just been killed and were lying on the ground). And it all brought a certain atmosphere: the atmosphere of those disinterested goodwilled people who meet with a tragic fate. It had the same impression on me as the horrors of the Germans during the war over there. These thin

I am inundated by a horde of mental questions ... flat, superficial - everybody asks me questions in order to publish my answers! So I refuse. K.G. sent me five or six questions for his journal, each one more stupidly mental than the other, in connection with the supermind. I am asked to say whether it's "this way" or whether it's "that way" - the kind of questions you ask a good pupil to see if he has learned his lesson well! page 103 , Mother's Agenda, volume 4 , 27th March 1963

L'Agenda de Mère - vol 13 – 1972-73 (On January 18, Mother received the Dalai Lama. It should be noted that Mother had long ago admitted a number of Tibetan refugees to the Ashram and Auroville.) Anything to say? I'd be curious to know what you felt with the Dalai Lama? A truly benevolent man. Buddhist benevolence, you know, and he practices it marvelously. He seems to have no ... no selfishness in him (there's no word for it in French). I mean, a constant concern to do the right thing. (silence) Very active [mentally] - there wasn't much of a deeper contact. That's all. He was happy with his visit, I was told. Did you hear that too? Yes, I heard

(Nolini comes in to read Mother his English translation of "Notes on the Way" for the next Bulletin.) I have been wondering about this: maybe if I didn't listen I'd hear quite clearly! (Nolini stares at Mother with a certain bewilderment.) No, I said just before that when I want to see clearly, precisely, I close my eyes and see quite clearly. I do it spontaneously (I noticed it because Satprem asked me what was going on). And since I can't hear, maybe if I didn't listen and went within myself, like that, I would hear? - There must be a trick! (Satprem:) It depends on the consciousness with which onereads to you.

They can't get that into their heads. He adds: "I suggested it might be better to gather and listen to Mother's voice (the recordings of the Wednesday and Friday classes), for even if one doesn't understand at all, your voice would do its inner work, which we are not able to comprehend. the child in contact with you. For all the suggestions, mine in cluded, seem to me arbitrary and worthless.... Mother, would it not be better for the teachers to concentrate exclusively on the subjects they teach, since you are there to look after spiritual life?"

X spoke to me of the Ashram's financial difficulties and said 'I shall tell you the secret why there are such difficulties.' I think he is going to speak to me today or tomorrow. In any case, he told me that he was working ('I am preparing' ... ) to change these conditions, and he asked me if there had been any improvement as yet. I replied that I did not believe the situation had changed very much. He spoke as well of certain people in the Ashram, but I will tell you about this in person. He had a rather amusing way of speaking about people, 'people who pretend to worship the Mother but who keep their mind as a dustbin!' page 331 - Mother's Agen

If we consider the body as the tabernacle of the Lord, then medical science, for example, becomes the initiatory ritual of the service of the temple, and doctors of all kinds are the officiating priests in the different rituals of worship. Thus, medicine is really a priesthood and should be treated as such. The same can be said of physical culture and of all the sciences that are concerned with the body and its workings. If the material universe is considered as the outer sheath and the manifestation of the Supreme, then it can generally be said that all the physical sciences are the rituals of worship. page 208 , Mother's Agenda , volume

But it's explained very well in Savitri! All these things have their laws and their conventions (and truly speaking, a really FORMIDABLE power is needed to change anything of their rights, for they have rights - what they call 'laws') ... Sri Aurobindo explains this very well when Savitri, following Satyavan into death, argues with the god of Death.' 'It's the Law, and who has the right to change the Law?' he says. And then comes this wonderful passage at the end where she replies, 'My God can change it. And my God is a God of Love.' Oh, how magnificent! And by force of repeating this to him, he yields ... She replies in this way to EVERYTHING.

Have you read Sri Aurobindo's last letters on China? [[See Addendum. ]] Oh, yes - he read them to me himself! (Mother laughs.) But everything Sri Aurobindo said has always come true. You know he also said (but it was in jest, he didn't write it) ... concerning reuniting with Pakistan he told me: "Ten years. It will take ten years." The ten years passed and nothing happened - OFFICIALLY nothing happened. But the truth is (I learned it through certain government officials), Pakistan did make some overtures in that direction, asking for a union to be reestablished (they would have kept some sort of autonomy, but the two countries woul

(Mother hands a box to Satprem) F. and R. have come and she brought me some candied chestnuts from Paris.... Yesterday, for instance, I had to see F. and R., since they had just arrived the day before. I spent three-quarters of an hour with them, and by the time it was over they had literally EMPTIED the atmosphere of all spiritual sense - it had become empty and hollow. It took me two or three minutes of concentration (which isn't so long) to bring it all back to normal. page 459 , Mother's Agenda , volume 3 , 19th Dec. 1962