One thing, though: suddenly I read (yesterday or the day before) a sermon delivered in the U.S.A. by an American (who is a rabbi, a pastor and even a Catholic priest all at the same time!). He heads a group, a group for the "unity of religions." A fairly young man, and a preacher. He gives a sermon every week, I think. He came here with some other Americans, stayed for two days and went back. But then, he sent us the sermons he had given since his return, and in one of them he recounts his "spiritual journey," as he calls it (a spiritual journey through China, Japan, Indochina, Malaysia, Indonesia, and so on up to India). What shocked him most in India was

-430_The Mother's flag.html (On 1 November 1954 Pondicherry and the other French settlements in India were transferred to the Indian Union. To celebrate the occasion the flag with Mother's symbol at its centre was hoisted at the Ashram at 6.20 a.m., when Mother read out the following message.) For us the 1st November has a deep significance. We have a flag which Sri Aurobindo called the Spiritual Flag of United India. Its square form, its colour and every detail of its design have a symbolic meaning. It was hoisted on the 15th August 1947 when India became free. It will now be hoisted on the 1st November 1954 when these settlements get united with India and it will be

But this way of seeing is too far removed from the state of mind and spiritual education in which X has lived,# of course, for him to understand. Nor am I in favor of proselytizing (to convince X); it would disturb him quite needlessly. He has not come here for that. He came here for something special, something I wanted which he brought, and I have learnt it. Now it's excellent, he is a part of the group in his own fashion, that's all. And in a certain way, his presence here is having a very good effect on a whole category of people who had not been touched but who are now becoming more and more favorably inclined. It was difficult to reach all the traditio

Many things are stirring over there.... You know the events in Czechoslovakia. [[On August 20, Russia invaded Czechoslovakia. ]] Things are stirring. A black steamship? Yes, a huge steamship. And strangely, it seemed to be going onthe rocks (which were also black), but without being crushed. I am sure the movement has begun. How long will it take to reach a concrete, visible and organized realization? I don't know. Something has started.... It would seem to be the onrush of the new species, the new creation, or at any rate a new creation. A terrestrial reorganization and a new creation.

-515_Amal Kiran 's mother.html There was an experience like that quite recently. A.'s mother was ill - old and seriously ill. Seeing her declining, A. wrote to me: 'If the time has come, make it happen quickly - don't let her suffer.' Then I saw very clearly that there was still something in her which didn't want to go; and when I applied the Force for the best to happen she suddenly began to recover! It must have coincided with a kind of inner aspiration in her - no more fever, she was feeling well. And A. began preparing to come back here. 'If she's recovering,' he said, 'there's no longer any point in my staying!' The same evening she had a relapse and he sent me a telegram

You see, I'm doing the sadhana really along a ... a path that has never been trod by anyone. Sri Aurobindo did it ... in principle. But he gave the charge of doing it in the body to me. That was the wonderful thing when we were together and all these hostile forces were fighting ... (they tried to kill me any number of times. He always saved me in an absolutely miraculous and marvelous way). But you see, this seemed to create very great BODILY difficulties for him. We discussed this a great deal, and I told him, 'If one of us must go, I want that it should be me.' 'It can't be you,' he replied, 'because you alon

Did you have something to say? (Satprem presents to Mother the manuscript of The Synthesis of Yoga before sending it to a new publisher in France:) I pray that there may be no difficulties with J.H. and the formerpublisher ... We'll see. Did J.H. have a sort of free hand to do all he wanted? He came here while Sri Aurobindo was here, and he asked [to publish Sri Aurobindo's and Mother's works], and Sri Aurobindo said, "Let him do as he pleases," like that! ... Everything was all the same to him. I think we should try, because we must free ourselves from thishold. For

Yes, charity is a horrible thing. Oh, for me it's a horrible thing. It's a way of puffing oneself up. So I told S., "If you can convert her ..." She is very rich (laughing), it would be quite useful! 7 Fevrier, 1970, vol - 11, L'Agenda de Mère

You know, that Russian woman who went up into the stratosphere [[Yalentina V. Tereshkova (on June 6, 1963). ]] (she went around the earth several times, I don't know how many), anyway she came on a visit to India and gave a lecture somewhere about her journey. And she said (in a very lovely way, it seems, I don't know her exact words) that she saw the earth from up there and that it was so beautiful, so magnificent! And she made this reflection: "From up there, there are no demarcations between countries, it makes so harmonious a unity that it seems unthinkable men should fight among themselves." That's lovely.... page 395 , Mother'ds Ag

There's a new phenomenon during the night. One phenomenon was there before, but has grown more precise: it's a place in the subtle physical where those with a body and those without a body are mingled without difference. They have the same reality, the same density and the same conscious, independent existence. There I see ... Last night (or the night before, I don't know), there were things like that: Chandulal [[Chandulal is the engineer who built Golconde. He left his body in November 1945 ... twenty-four years earlier. ]] was there, Amrita too, they met and talked, made plans together, just as they would have done physically on earth. It wasn't the first time the