December 17, 1969 I've had a revelation. Ah! It was very interesting. That is, I was completely silent, and all of a sudden, it came, and as always it kept insisting until I noted it down. It came in the wake of a question: "What is death? ..." But then, the answer wasn't at all on the ordinary plane, which means that the mind was perfectly silent. It came like this, imperative (Mother laughs): Death is the decentralization of the consciousness contained in the body's cells. Page 475 With a whole world of perceptions at the same time (Mother makes a gesture around her), like a general terrestrial consciousness, with examples showing that it's only w

November 8, 1969 (The conversation begins ten minutes early. Mother hands a "Transformation "flower to Satprem.) <413> Would you like one? Yes, it's necessary! They're pretty ... Only one is necessary: all the way down, this one (Mother gives the flower, laughing). To you (to Sujata) I give four. There. But does it get done independently of our effort? Something is done, that I know. Something is done. The Pressure is very strong, and some people even take it to be discomfort. I made the experiment on my body: the moment of the change of authority - you know, it goes from one authority to another - is always difficult, and if one isn't aware one can t

December 20, 1969 (Mother gives Satprem a Champak flower.) Do you know what it is? ... It's the "divine psychological perfection." So someone asked me, "What's divine psychological perfection?" - A smile in any circumstance ... Good .... You know that I went to the Madras airport yesterdayto bring my mother here. Every time, I really feel as if I had entered a world ... I don't know ... another world. Another world. Really, I've never had in my life that impression to such a point, as if entering a nonhuman world, I don't know what world that is - like a dream world, a world devoid of existence, false, empty. Page 478 Mechanical.

September 27, 1969 (A.R., the healer, enters; Mother gives him a red rose.) (A.R.:) Thank you ... I come to you as a child thirsting and hungering for Truth, Justice, and the Knowledge of spiritual laws. Please give me this nourishment that is the knowledge of the laws, so I may serve the Divine in the most perfect universal Harmony. (silence) (To Satprem:) Did you tell him that I don't speak? (Satprem to A.R.:) Mother doesn't speak. If he has something to say, he can do so. (Satprem:) What is the central question that preoccupies you? (A.R.:) The central question ... The central question for me,with regard to past experiences, is t

February 26, 1969 A few days ago (two or three), Pavitra got a letter from France, from someone who wrote (Mother laughs) that according to a few French people who had visited the Ashram, morals have become quite "lax" at the Ashram and everything is in a pitiful state .... So then, this person sends his "wishes" for "the Ashram's morals to be raised again ...." Pavitra asked me, "Should we reply?" At the time I said (laughing), "Don't bother replying, there's nothing to say" But once he had left, it came (gesture from above), not exactly as an answer to that person, but an answer to a rather common state of mind. It came in French first, in three parts: one sentence, then a whole g

July 12, 1969 The nights are beginning to be interesting! Very interesting, because I have a vision - I don't know where it is, whether it's in the subtle physical (probably so) - a symbolic vision, but active (it's an action), a vision of what's happening, but then ... (Mother smiles) AS IT Is, not as people see it! Things here are always cloaked in a number of clothes, it's never the exact thing, but there, it is the exact thing. Just now ... Last night, I had a long activity, and I wondered, "But why am I seeing all this?" A long activity (I'll tell you what it was), and just now, Z was here and started telling me the difficulties they have with the servants .... "Ah," I thought, "he

January 22, 1969 (Again regarding the descent of the superman consciousness.) I wanted to tell you something, and it's gone .... There's been such a hurly-burly since this morning. (Mother remains absorbed) I told you how I was surrounded [by a rampart] .... Oh, but this Page 32 consciousness is very interesting! It gives me lessons all the time, it's very interesting! He [[He = the mentor. ]] gives me lessons during the night to tell me the things that must change, and with symbolic sounds to make me clearly understand: he makes me LIVE certain situations to know what needs to be changed - what he does is first-rate! It's going on in every detail. I can't

February 1, 1969 (Mother first translates into French the following extract from a letter of Sri Aurobindo:) "As for immortality, it cannot come if there is attachment to the body, - for it is only by living in the immortal part of oneself which is unidentified with the body and bringing down its consciousness and force into the cells that it can come. I speak of course of yogic means. The scientists now hold that it is (theoretically at least) possible to discover physical means by which death can be overcome, but that would mean only a prolongation of the present consciousness in the present body Unless there is a change of consciousness and change of functionings

November 29, 1969 I have news of the healer - not from him, indirectly First, N.S.'s husband said that A.R. went to see her several times, and he writes, "She is completely cured, free from pain anywhere." He said she would write (she was very busy - they're terribly busy there at this time). We'll wait for her letter to see whether it's continuing. The second thing is T. from Calcutta: he said A.R. was coming to Calcutta and had asked him to put him up along with HIS GURU! ... It seems he's found a guru .... Good! So T. didn't like it much, he told me, "The guru, I don't feel like receiving him." I said, "Receive him and tell us who he is" - so as to know who this famous g

August 9, 1969 UNESCO want to publish a brochure on "tolerance," and they wrote to K. to ask him for a message from me. So I wrote something (Mother laughs), here it is: "Tolerance is only the first step towards wisdom. The need to tolerate indicates the presence of preferences. He whose consciousness is one with the Supreme Consciousness meets all things with a perfect equanimity" They puff themselves up like that, they still think themselves highly superior because they have "tolerance" - and tolerance is looking down on things with contempt. (silence) Page 283 Have I seen you since that experience? ... I spent one night (but I forget which), it was strange .... I