It's very interesting, but it means at least eight pages! Premonitory dreams.... There are different kinds of premonitory dreams. Some are immediately realized - you dream at night what will happen the next day - while the realizations of others are staggered over varying spans of time; such dreams are seen in different realms corresponding to the time they take to be realized. The closer you approach absolute certainty, the greater is the time span, because the realm of such visions is quite close to the Origin, and a long time can pass between the revelation of what will be and its realization. But being so near the Origin, the revela

We are putting together ... (what can I call it?) a set of rules (oh, that's an ugly word) for admission to the Ashram.... Yes! ... Not that if you accept the rules you're admitted, it's not that, but when someone is admitted, we tell him, "But, you know, here is ..." (when he is potentially admitted), "here is what you are committing yourself to by becoming a member of the Ashram." Because requests for admission are pouring in like locusts, and at least ninety-nine times out of a hundred, it's from people who want to come here to be comfortable and rest and do nothing - one in a hundred comes because he has a spiritual aspiration (oh, and even then ... it's mi

Rita: "The actual fact of death evokes in me an experience in which one is thrust into space and soars up." Amusing! I found it very amusing. She is the only one, besides, the others are quite practical. [[This young girl, to whom death looked so graceful, was to die four years later. ]] Dilip: "A cessation of all physical activity caused by the absence of a source of energy (or soul)." It's not clear.... The other two are quite practical (!) Anand: "When the brain stops functioning and the body starts decomposing, it's death." (Mother l

Soon afterwards Did your mother intend to come by plane? By sea. Mon petit, ships can no longer sail past Port Said: the Suez Canal is closed. What's going to happen? (After a long silence) We are just like this (gesture hanging in balance between two chasms). Yesterday, I would have answered very strongly.... Let me tell you what happened. We had here an American, a very nice boy who, before he came here, was a paratroop instructor in Israel's army. I don't think he is an Israeli, I think he's American; I am sure his nationality is American, I saw his passport. But he was a paratroop instruc

And they don't have to be the same. One can be sitting and the other standing. The one in the street, standing; and the one in the house, sitting. That will be very nice. Because in the house there's no need to ask anyone's permission. I hope the one in the street is standing? I believe you had chosen a photo of Sri Aurobindo in which hewas looking toward the future. I think it's the photo by the Dutch painter. Yes, that's it. I would like the one in the street to be standing.[[ The statue in bronze, done by the sculptor Hrishikesh Dasgupta, will be unveiled on 16 August 1975 by the vice-president of India, B.D. Jatti

What is this spring? The spring? It means exactly this: in the deepest depths of the Inconscient is the supreme spring that makes us touch the Supreme. It is like the Supreme making us touch the Supreme: that is the almighty spring. When you arrive at the very bottom of the Inconscient, you touch the Supreme. So that is the shortest path! Not the shortest path! Already for me, it was hard to touch the bottom of the Inconscient, but for others it would take an eternity. It is something similar to what Sri Aurobindo has written in 'A God's Labour.' Was it the Supreme at the very bottom of t

And the acceptance of illness is the acceptance of the usual end, which is generally called "death" (that doesn't mean anything), but anyway, it means that the aggregate is unable to be transformed and is dissolved. These are things [those "seconds"] that happen very often, and without any relationship whatever to outer circumstances. Which means that if one were all alone - all alone, still, in meditation - it would be more radical and definitive. But it's mixed in with the movement of life, outer circumstances, and those outer circumstances make it necessary that it should go more or less unnoticed. So the result is less complete, only partial,

The true life ... it will come. The true life is something else, something that's yet to come. It is something else. The true life is Satprem. That's for later on. When it does come forward, then you will get a sense of the true life. It will come. And you mustn't be impatient - impatience leads to imitation: and unwittingly, in all sincerity, you imitate things within yourself, within your own experience, you imitate the realization - that's what impatience does. The true life in its SIMPLE purity cannot come until ... until the Lord Himself is doing and deciding everything, acting, realizing, livi