M o t h e r's   A g e n d a   1966-12-07 December 7, 1966 (Mother hands Satprem a flower called "Grace," then a second "Grace.") Would you like a second Grace?... There's never too much of it! Oh, the other day someone asked me a question on the message for November 24,[["There are these three powers [governing life on earth]: (1) The Cosmic Law, of Karma or what else; (2) the Divine Compassion acting on as many as it can reach through the nets of the Law and giving them their chance; (3) the Divine Grace which acts more incalculably but also more irresistibly than the others." (Sri Aurobindo) ]] and Sri Aurobindo replied. It was so interesting! I saw something all of a sudden. While he was speaking it

June 11, 1966 (The conversation begins with the book Satprem is writing, which Mother "dictates" at night, but which Satprem has difficulty receiving.) Mon petit, I keep on writing! It's incredible! It has never happened to me. Fantastic things ... But is it coming along? Not much, not fast at all. Do you write in sequence or did you begin with the end? No, no, I always write in sequence.... It's not coming easily, it's not coming smoothly at all. I wonder where the blockage is. Page 132 It's because when one starts writing, one enters the mental atmosphere, the human mental atmosphere. And the passage is almost imperceptible, there's such a habit of thinking, of e

M o t h e r's   A g e n d a   1966-11-26 November 26, 1966 (Mother looks very tired. This morning she did not eat anything nor did she receive anyone. When Satprem comes in, she gives him flowers and soup packets received from Israel:) But you are the one who doesn't eat! I didn't feel like it. Yet these soups are about the only thing I Page 276  take.... But you understand, I don't do any exercise, the whole day long I stay without moving, so I really shouldn't overeat! But the body still needs to be nourished, doesn't it? I don't know.... Because attacks multiply tremendously, and today, for instance, I found only one solution, which was to stay lying down: while it was going on, not to

May 25, 1966 (Regarding the conversation of May 18 in which Mother said that ninety percent of the visions and dreams in the vital, or even on the other, higher planes, are subjective.) All the same, there is something disturbing about that almost total subjectivity. Ah, why? You wonder what's true, what you really encounter. Isn't it all a figment of your imagination?... It's a bit disquieting. But when you have the positive experience of the sole and exclusive existence of the Supreme and that everything is just the play of the Supreme with Himself, instead of its being something disquieting or unpleasant or unsettling, it's on the contrary a sort of total security. Th

July 27, 1966 Today is the birthday of Jyotin, the gardener. He brought me this, look! ... (Mother gives a double pink lotus) It's beautiful. Page 155 The day man will be like this ... There, exactly! Exactly what I was thinking. When you see this, you feel your infirmity. (Mother looks at the flower again) It's wonderful, isn't it? Man really isn't an improvement! ... He is full of miseries and ugly things, while this is so simple, so spontaneous. Yes, a few days ago the consciousness was under attack. All that is petty, sordid, ugly, oh ... poor, helpless, all that - it was such an avalanche! ... This poor body, it cried over its incapacity to express anything superior.

November 3, 1966 Would you like to win 200,000 dollars? What does one have to do for that? One has to prove the existence of the soul after death. Oh, yes, yes, I know - that article.... "A $ 200,000 reward has been offered to anyone on this earth who can give some scientific proof of a soul of a human body which leaves at death. This was found in the will of James Kidd, an Arizona miner who died in 1951. Lawyers executing the will claim that if no real scientific proof is submitted the money will go to any research institute aimed at proving the existence of the human soul." ["The Hindu," October 26, 1966] Some people already have their argument ready, I've heard. A

December 17, 1966 A child from the School asked me, "How can mathematics, history or sciences help me to find you?" I found that quite amusing! Page 296 I answered: "They can help in several ways: 1. To be able to receive and bear the light of Truth, the mind must be strengthened, broadened and made supple. These studies are an excellent way to achieve this. 2. Sciences, if you study them deeply enough, will teach you the unreality of appearances and will thus lead you to the spiritual reality. 3. The study of all aspects and movements of physical Nature will bring you into contact with the universal Mother, and you will thus be nearer to me." I still remem

September 14, 1966 122 - If thou wouldst not be the fool of Opinion, first see wherein thy thought is true, then study wherein its opposite and contradiction is true; last, discover the cause of these differences and the key of God's harmony. Page 196 123 - An opinion is neither true nor false, but only serviceable for life or unserviceable ... (Mother laughs heartily) ... for it is a creation of Time and with time it loses its effect and value. Rise thou above opinion and seek wisdom everlasting. 124 - use opinion for life, but let her not bind thy soul in her fetters. 125 - Every law, however embracing or tyrannous, meets somewhere a contrary law by whic

January 14, 1966 (Following a "tourist" trip Satprem had to make in India for certain reasons.) Did you feel any difference? What difference? Between being here and being in Bangalore? Oh, to me it was all infernal. All that is hell. Oh, that's the effect it had on you? Oh, yes! Then it's all right. Tourism and all that is hell. I did my job - not very well, but I did it. Then it's all right. Page 16 To tell you the whole truth, that's what you said to me, [[In the inner consciousness. ]] but I wanted to know if you had felt it outwardly. I knew it almost right away. And then there was between us a different contact from the one we have here, and it ex

January 19, 1966 (Mother copies out in her thick white notebook a few lines from her translation of "Savitri.") ... Near my pen, there is a small disk of Sri Aurobindo's light, which sparkles and sparkles.... I see it more than my handwriting. It's no bigger than this (two inches) and it shines, it shines brightly - blue light, of the silvery blue that was Sri Aurobindo's blue. It shines and shines, and it moves along with my fingers. [[Mother had already made a similar remark last year. See Agenda VI, conversation of November 6, 1965, p. 287. ]] And when I speak, when I say things that "come," there are two disks (I don't know why). Not one, but two, and they are bigger (about f