11 January 1971 After a long physical trial of about a month and a half, Mother made the following com- ments, which were noted down from memory by a disciple. In physical vision a much more continued concentration is needed. Physical sight serves to stabilise. It gives a continuity to things. It is the same thing with regard to hearing. So, when they are not there any more, one becomes directly conscious of the thing, and that gives the true knowledge. The Supramental will surely act in that way. Physical sight and hearing have been thrown into the background to make room for identification by consciousness, for the sake of the

28 September 1966 Why is there suffering? How to cure suffering? For a long time quite recently, that is to say, for days together, there was a very acute, very intense, very clear perception that the action of the Force translated itself externally by what we call “suffering'' because that is the only kind of vibration which can pull Matter out of its inertia. The supreme Peace, the supreme Calm are deformed and disfigured into inertia and into tamas, and precisely because this was the deformation of true Peace and Calm, there was no reason why it should change! A certain vibration of awakening ― of reawakening – was necessary to come out of this tamas, tha

19 November 1969 This morning about eight o'clock, I could have said many things.... Because there came a day when many problems had cropped up as a consequence of something that had happened, then this morning (towards the end of the night), I had the experience that was the explanation. And for two hours I lived in an absolutely clear perception (not a thought: a clear perception) of the why and how of creation. It was so luminous, so clear; it was irrefutable. It lasted at least for four or five hours and then it petered out; gradually the experience diminished in intensity and clarity.... I had just seen many people, then... it is difficult to explain now. But all had become

24 June 1967 Many things to say, but... it is better to come to the end. It is a curve. Better to reach the end. It is too early to speak. (After a silence) The movements of the body almost in their totality are habitual movements. Behind, there is the consciousness of the physical mind (what I call the “cellular mind''), which is itself constantly conscious of the divine Presence and is keen on accepting nothing but That; so a whole work is going on for changing, shifting the origin of the movements. I mean to say that instead of it just being automatically the habit, it should be automatically the divine Presence and Consciousness that causes the movement (Mother

20 May 1970 Are we following your experience even a little? What should we do to be a little more in the movement? Some are beginning to have experiences; some have the experiences but do not know! (Mother laughs) It has some effect. The greatest difficulty, as always, is the mind, because it wants to understand in its own way. That is the difficulty... There are some who would go much more quickly if they did not have that. They have the feeling that if they do not understand mentally they have not understood. Page - 234 27 June 1970 Since long you have not spoken... (Silence) To express, there must be a minimum of mentalisa

22 November 1967   There is a progress. At the end of the physical demonstration on the 2nd of December,¹ all the children in a chorus are going to pray, and I have written the prayer for them. I am going to read it to you. But I had not thought of it; I was asked and I did it. Probably they read the Bulletin and so they asked for a prayer – a prayer that is truly of the body. And I answered: The prayer of the cells of the body Now that, by the effect of the Grace, we are slowly emerging out of inconscience and waking to a con- scious life, an ardent prayer rises in us for more light, more consciousness, “O Supreme Lord of the un

17 May 1969 Is it possible that the individuality gets dissolved after death? These notions about individuality... they are very much changed for me, very much. Even the whole of this morning... But for a long time, for at least a month, it has been different. When people speak of individuality, there is always as though... at least in the background, some separation, that is to say, something existing independently and having its own destiny. But now, as the consciousness in this body knows it, it is almost like a pulsation of “something'' which for the moment has a separate action, but is at bottom, in essence always one; as something which is projected lik

25 September 1968 I have found some old papers, I do not know what they are. There is an envelope from you. It is a question on Aphorisms. “When I hear of a righteous wrath, I wonder at man's capacity for self-deception.'' Sri Aurobindo, Thoughts and Aphorisms * It is wonderful! There was a question: “It is always ‘in good faith' that one deceives oneself: it is always for the good of others that one acts or in the interest of humanity and for serving you, it goes without saying. How does one come to deceive oneself and how to know it truly?'' ¹ It is terribly true. Even yesterday, without even reading it, I had a lo

10 December 1969 Progress is going on at a giant's pace – that shakes the house a little, but it goes on at a giant's pace. And for some, like X for example, it is very conscious. She had an accident in the knee long ago and this leg is a little weaker than the other one – there was a possibility of an upsetting. She noticed that so long as she had the correct attitude she felt nothing, there was nothing, it seemed to have gone altogether. As soon as she fell back into the ordinary consciousness, the illness returned..... And she has had innumerable experiences. I found it very interesting. Others also. And it is truly interesting. It is truly interesting because it has

11 January 1967 A disciple complained that people took Mother's time with questions often useless, while less and less time was left for her to attend to apparently more important work.Mother commented: It has to be like that, since it is like that. It is perhaps a lesson (it is an indication), but it has a purpose. The lesson that I have to understand, I am trying to understand. I am learning to be patient, oh! such a patience.... Always there are revolts, insults, all that. For me it is absolutely zero and sometimes it is even amusing. When I am in my own condition, the true condition of compassion, it changes nothing, it does not raise even