August 6, 1969 (After studying various matters of printing, Motherabruptly asks:) I'd like to ask you a material detail: have you enough cheese for one week?! Yes, yes, Mother. Are you sure? ... Because cheese is good for you. If you want more, there's nothing easier ... (Mother peers at Satprem's face) Ah, it's yes! (To Sujata) Go and ask for a box. You think of everything! You know, I don't "think," but things come like this (gesture as if on a screen). All of a sudden I see, so it must be true, it's not my imagination. Yet it's not in my consciousness! Ah, mon petit, I see much more than what you're aware of! (Mother laughs) It's in your subcon

May 17, 1969 (About Pavitra's departure. Pavitra was the oldest French disciple; chemist and engineer of the École Polytechnique, he came Page 180 to the Ashram in December, 1925, after having pursued his quest all the way to Mongolia's lamaseries. [[Pavitra left some very interesting memoirs of his conversations with Sri Aurobindo and Mother in 1925 and 1926, which unfortunately were barbarously mutilated (with whole pages torn away, almost a third of Pavitra's notebooks) by his closest collaborator, under the pretext that it would be "better left unsaid." We shudder to think what would have been the fate of this Agenda had it come into the hands of those same "collaborator

June 28, 1969 Oh, I've received this from little S.U., again in relation to your book: (Mother holds out a letter) Page 223 Sweet Mother, What is the idea behind this sentence from the "Adven ture": "Unfortunately, the West has too much intelligence to have much clear vision to translate outwardly, while India, too full within, is not demanding enough to match what she lives with what she sees"? (Mother smiles and dictates straight off) It means that in the West (especially in France), the intellectual development has prevailed over the spiritual development and the contact with higher regions, while in India, the inner knowledge has remained mor

January 25, 1969 (The whole time is spent in contemplation, except for a moment when Mother comes back to say:) All the time, all the time, something like a slight indication passes by - and noiselessly: it's not words. Page 36

May 3, 1969 This Consciousness is very interesting. It has (smiling) ... it's not scorn, it's a sort of faraway indifference for all human ideas - all conventions, all principles, all moralities, it finds all of that ... absolutely grotesque. Now and then, it comes into contact with human ideas (Mother takes a surprised tone of voice): "Ooh! So that's what they think ..." It's amusing! There are two things. Death, it doesn't at all understand what we mean by that, the importance we attach to it - but not at all. And then, money, to this consciousness, is buffoonery: this system of money, the invention of this system, which prevents you from doing anything unless you pull out a banknote, t

September 13, 1969 RL. has seen something. He thinks what he's seen is me, but in fact it's his own mental projection, I think. Anyway, it expresses clearly enough the problem he is facing .... Basically, the thought that troubles him is to know whether he would do a better work by leaving the Church than by staying within it. That's the prob lem he has been somewhat mulling over, because, for instance, next month in Rome, all the bishops are meeting in a synod, and on that occasion, a number of priests who are recalcitrant or refractory or rebellious, let us say, want to meet in Rome and hold a sort of anti-synod to publicly prod the Church towards a

July 23, 1969 (The American astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin landed on themoon on July 21. Mother shows the following text which was suggested to her as a "message" for August 15.) It's Nolini who suggested this text ... because of the people who landed on the moon! (Mother laughs) But it's far too personal - I said no. I am just showing it to you, but I told him, "No, I don't want." Q. "I have been wondering whether the Mother has beenable to establish a direct connection with Mars or any other far off planet which is probably habitable and inhabited." Someone put this question to Sri Aurobindo. So now that people have landed on the moon ... A. "A long t

August 23, 1969 Yesterday I saw Y. She told me what she wanted to do: her new method of education .... It was rather amusing! ... It seems there is in a box the miniature reproduction of as many things of the earth as can be represented: humans, animals, objects, houses, and so on. All that is mixed together in a big box, on a sort of table, and the big and small children are put there, all of them together, and given a fixed time (I think): they have to make something out of the objects on the table - absolutely free, they do what they like. And it seems that according to what they do, the way they use the objects and assemble them, you can tell their character ... As an illustration, s

September 24, 1969 So did you see this healer? Yes, I saw him. Page 345 Tell me. I am very much struck, I must say. First of all, to put thingsphysically, the first time I saw him, I remained with him for three and a half hours-he didn't stop talking .... Oh! But the extraordinary thing is that usually, when I am withpeople, after half an hour I am exhausted - after three and a half hours (I didn't budge, didn't stop looking at him), I was as fresh as a daisy! And so full of energy that I didn't sleep the whole night! And I spent three and a half hours listening to this man .... Yesterday evening (I was tired, Id had a rather hea

February 19, 1969 (The conversation begins an hour late.) We must take life as a grace, otherwise it's impossible to live. (silence) I had things to say, but ... I've just seen at least thirty people. (silence) I am entirely convinced that things are as they must be, and that it's simply the body that lacks suppleness, tranquillity, trust .... So Page 66 I can't even say that things grate (they don't grate at all), but ... You understand, the work consists in changing the conscious base of all the cells-but not all at once! Because that would be impossible; even little by little is very difficult: the moment when the conscious base is changed is ... The