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

-339_The Mother's notes.html I was asked a question: "What is youth?" Here is what I replied (Mother holds out a note): "To be young is to live in the future for the future. To be young is to be always ready to abandon what one is in order to become what one ought to be.... And above all, the most important: "To be young is never to admit the irreparable." page 86-87 , Mother's Agenda , volume 8 , 29th March - 1967 Then Mother takes out another note she has just written to a disciple: "One is always deeply disgusted at one

On March 19 during the translation class the inner voice said: Hold yourself straight and the body sat up and held itself absolutely straight during the entire class. 1. The following text was given by Mother in both French and English. 2. Later added by Mother 3. Note written by Mother in French At this period, Mother's back was already bent. This straightening of her back seems to be the first physiological effect of the 'Supramental Manifestation' of February 29, which is perhaps the reason why Mother noted down the experience under the name 'Agenda of the Supramental

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(Mother holds a note out to Satprem) This is what I sent for the conferences of the New Age Association. [[An association of students from the Ashram. ]] They asked, "Is the aim of life to be happy?..." So I replied: "That is just putting things topsy-turvy."The aim of human life is to discover the Divine and to manifest it. Naturally, this discovery leads to happiness, but this happiness is a consequence, not an aim in itself. And it is this mistake of taking a mere consequence for the aim of life that has been the cause of most of the miseries afflicting humanity."

It is an error to confuse Joy and Felicity. They are two very different things. Not only are their vibrations different, but their colors are different. The color of Felicity is blue, a clear silvery blue (the blue of the Ashram flag), very luminous and transparent. And it has a passive and fresh quality that refreshes and rejuvenates. Whereas Joy is a golden rose color, a pale gold with a tinge of red, a very pale red. It is active, warm, fortifying, intensifying. The first is sweetness, the second is tenderness. And Bliss - what I spontaneously call Bliss - is the synthesis of both. It is found in the very heights of

What struck me the most is sight. Hearing ... for a very, very long time - years - I've had the feeling that when people don't think very clearly, I can't hear. But that's not quite the point: it's when their consciousness isn't ALIVE in what they're saying - it's not so much a question of "thought," it's their consciousness that isn't ALIVE in what they're saying; it's a mental machine; then I don't understand anything at all - nothing. When their consciousness is alive, it reaches me. And I have noticed, for instance, that people whom I don't hear think it's because I am deaf in the ordinary way, so they start shouting - which is even worse! Then it's a

Here, I have brought you two flowers. They have two different yet very typically Indian fragrances: this one is Straightforwardness, [[Ixora arborea (Torch Tree). ]] and this is SIMPLICITY. [[Hymenantherum, a tiny yellow flower like a miniature daisy. ]] I have always found that this one (Mother holds out the Simplicity) has a cleansing fragrance: when you breathe it, ah, everything becomes clean - it's wonderful! (Mother breathes in the flower's fragrance.) Once I cured myself of the onset of a cold with it - this can be done when you catch it at the very beginning. It fills you completely, the nose, the throat.... And this [Straightforwardness] is right at the

Oh, a few days ago I was told a frightful story - what depths humanity has sunk to ... it's unbelievable. Have you heard this story of the slaughter of baby seals? When seals are born (a certain species of seals), they're all white, and they remain so for a few weeks, then they lose their hair and turn gray-gray or yellowish, like their fathers and mothers. And as it's the fashion to wear all-white fur coats, some people ... It's organized by some trader or other: seals gather at the time of giving birth, there's a place there, in the North, on an island, where they gather in their thousands, and each mother gives birth to a single child. So th

/The Atomic Bomb/ The Atomic bomb is in itself the most wonderful achievement and the sign of a growing power of man over material nature. But what is to be regretted is that this material progress and mastery is not the result of and in keeping with a spiritual progress and mastery which alone has the power to contradict and counteract the terrible danger coming from these discoveries. We cannot and must not stop progress, but we must Page - 48, Words of The Mother, vol -15 Maybe we'll see from another world. (Laughing) It's possible. They have bombs in America and Russia (China hasn't boas