If he comes, he must come with money, because the situation here is critical. We spend three times more than what we have, so ... It's a sort of constant miracle. And the expenses keep increasing. This morning, D. [[D. looks after the dining room and provisions. ]] told me he cannot go on. That's how it is. And then, the government is raising taxes in a proportion of one to ten - ten times more. So everything is like that. And we are faced with ... a hole. So I can't take new people anymore, except those who can not only meet their own needs but also help the Ashram a little. Things are very, very, very difficult. (long silenc

When X does his puja, I clearly see the particular form of the Mother he is invoking - I see her descending. page 213 , Mother's Agenda , volume 1 , 25th Oct. - 1958 Last night, I thought, 'My god! If I have to ...' Individually, with this one or that one, by selecting the best, I could get somewhere, but this ... this mass.' Swami had told me so - he told me immediately after his first meditation (collective meditation at the Ashram playground), he told me, 'The stuff is not good!' (Mother laughs) page 215 , Mother's Agenda , volume 1 , 2nd Nov. - 1958 Later on, when Sri Aurobindo left his body,

Outside there is a lot of trouble in town because of.. The university?[[A students' strike, public manifestations, parades (the government has had to close all the Pondicherry schools), protesting "Sri Aurobindo University," which was to be inaugurated for the Centenary.

(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. Very benevolent - he's very benevolent. I was told something (I don't know if it's true), he is reported to have said, "Sri Aurobindo and the Mother are the most important personalities in the world today" - I don't know if it's true. He seems

/Mother, for instance, on certain days of the year we have Lakshmi-puja, Mahakali-puja, and all that... / That's because it amuses you, my children! /But on these days you give us blessings also! / Yes, because that amuses you! (Laughter) Eh? /You give us blessings only to amuse us? / Come now! It pleases you; I said “amuses”; it's... I was disrespectful; but it's because it pleases you. Mahakali day, for instance... Yes, yes, sometimes Kali comes three days earlier or four days later or at some other time in the year. She is not necessar

Afterwards, when he left and I had to do the Yoga myself, to be able to take his physical place, I could have adopted the attitude of the sage, which is what I did since I was in an unparalleled state of calm when he left. As he left his body and entered into mine, he told me, 'You will continue, you will go right to the end of the work.' It was then that I imposed a calm upon this body - the calm of total detachment. And I could have remained like that. But in a way, absolute calm implies withdrawal from action, so a choice had to be made between one or the other. I said to myself, 'I am neither exclusively this nor exclusively that

-014_Sri Aurobindo's centenary 1972.html Today is the first day of Sri Aurobindo's centenary year. Though he has left his body he is still with us, alive and active. Sri Aurobindo belongs to the future; he is the messenger of the future. He still shows us the way to follow in order to hasten the realisation of a glorious future fashioned by the Divine Will. All those who want to collaborate for the progress of humanity and for India's luminous destiny must unite in a clairvoyant aspiration and in an illumined work. page 211 - Mother's Agenda , volume 12 , 4th Aug - 1971 (Message from Mother) When Sri Au

I see Z every day, yet he asked me, 'Why do you do nothing for me?'!! 'Each time you come here,' I told him, 'I am NECESSARILY doing something for you, it cannot be otherwise!' But since it's just a part of his work,' it doesn't count! Of course, I don't say, 'All right, now let's meditate! ...' So on his birthday I'll have to sit down and tell him, 'Now we are going to meditate' - that way he'll feel sure. What childishness! It's so funny - the thing in itself doesn't exist for people. What's important to them is their attitude towards the thing, what they think of it. How odd! Each thing carries within itself its own truth - its abs

What do you have to say? Have you been told that recently in France, some six or sevenstudents have set themselves on fire? What?! Yes. Set themselves ... ... on fire, and they died. How horrible! Seventeen- or eighteen-year-old boys. Oh!... Students. It's the latest fad - here also they wanted to do the same thing.... What's that? A protest against this suffocating society. How horrible.... In France? In France. As far as we've been told, the students who have reacted are froma very average mil