Only a few days ago, on the morning of the 29th, I had one of those experiences that mark one's life. It happened upstairs in my room. I was doing my japa, walking up and down with my eyes wide open, when suddenly Krishna came - a gold Krishna, all golden, in a golden light that filled the whole room. I was walking, but I could not even see the windows or the rug any longer, for this golden light was everywhere with Krishna at its center. And it must have lasted at least fifteen minutes. He was dressed in those same clothes in which he is normally portrayed when he dances. He was all light, all dancing: 'You see, I will be there this evening during the Darshan." An

At I in the morning, I had to do another work, because one of our boys, T. (that boy has the makings of a hero), almost single-handedly saved the clinic, but it cost him a fractured skull. At the time, they thought he was done for. They brought me the news, and when the news came I saw, I felt all of a sudden the other experience recede, and then that I was becoming the universal Mother with all the power of the universal Mother. And then, that T. became quite small, like this (gesture of something tiny in the hollow of the hand), and I held him in my hands - but he was all luminous, all luminous - I rocked him in my hands, telling him, "My child, my little chi

This morning I got a letter from a little girl who asks me, "What is consciousness? I asked my teachers, they answered me it was very hard to explain"! (Mother laughs) So she's asking me. And since she asked me, I've been looking at it. How can we express it? Do YOU know how it can be explained? Because the words we use are meaningless. Spontaneously, I'd say it's the fire or the breath that carries the whole world. It's the fire that makes everything live - that makes the chest breathe, that makes the sea heave ... That's not bad! What would YOU say? Here is what I found: it's the cause of existence - the cause and the effec

These children don't understand [Sri Aurobindo's irony]. They read it prosaically (gesture indicating the surface). Strangely enough, it's the same phenomenon when they read Anatole France. And Anatole France, read without understanding his irony, is abominably commonplace. They don't grasp the irony. Sri Aurobindo had it. He understood the irony of Anatole France so well, he had this same thing - so subtle, so refined ... 'Very good,' he would say while reading La Révolte des Anges 'Yes, it is true, which of the two should we believe?'# (Mother laughs). page 293 , Mother's Agenda , volume 1 , Undated 1959

Sri Aurobindo had made it clear to me when I was still in France that this yoga in matter is the most difficult of all. For the other yogas, the paths have been well laid, you know where to tread, how to proceed, what to do in such-and-such a case. But for the yoga of matter, nothing has ever been done, never, so at each moment everything has to be invented. page 357 , Mother's Agenda - volume 1 , 28th Jan. 1960

Ramdas3 must be a continuation of the line of Chaitanya, Ramakrishna, etc ... . (silence) 1. Note written by Mother. 2. Note written by Mother in English. 3. Ramdas: a yogi from Northwest India who followed the path of love (bhakti). His whole yoga consisted in repeating the name Ram. He founded the Anand-ashram in Kanhargad, Kerala. He was born in 1884 and died in 1963. page 171 , Mother's Agenda , volume 1 , 2nd July - 1958 Ramdas does not at all consider that the world as it is, is good. No, but I know all these people, I know them thoroughly! I know Chaitanya, Ra

Have you seen Bharatidi? [[A long-time disciple (Suzanne Karpeles) and a member of the École Française l'Extrème Orient. ]] No, you know how I am, I don't go out. She saw your publishers in Paris and they told her they are impatiently awaiting (Mother is mocking) your book on Sri Aurobindo.... page 90 - Mother's Agenda , volume 2 , 14th Feb 1961 (Later, about a disciple who is very talkative but full of ironic wit - Bharatidi.) ... She kept me almost an hour! She told me, "The next time, I won't chatter." So this time it was only half an hour! But she has a very pleasant way of saying things.

I would especially like to understand the difference between the overmind and the Supermind - to understand it concretely, not abstractly. The overmind isn't part of the intellect. It's the domain of the gods. It is the domain of the gods, and that's what has been ruling the earth. All the gods men have known, worshipped and had contact with are there. Yes, a domain of gods, with godlike lives and godlike ways - it's not the Supermind. Yes, precisely - but what exactly makes the difference? I don't believe the gods have access to the Supermind. Yes, the gods stop at the overmind.