June 8, 1966 (Regarding an old Talk of 19 April 1951 in which Mother said: "You seem to be on an inner hunt, you go hunting for the dark little corners.... You offer the difficulty, whether it is in yourself or in others, whatever the seat of its manifestation, to the Divine Consciousness, asking It to transform it.") That's precisely what I have been doing for two days! For the last two days I have spent all my time seeing all that ... oh, an accumulation of heaps of sordid little things we constantly live in, sordid tiny little things. And then, there is only one way - only one way, always the same: to offer it. This Supreme Consciousness almost seems to put you in contact with qui

August 3, 1966 Is there anything new? There was something that might interest you (Mother looks for a piece of paper). What interests me is what you are doing. What I ...? What you are doing. I am making discoveries, mon petit. When the mind is active, or rather, as long as the mind is active, when you have dedicated your life and are fully convinced that it's your only raison d'être, you tend to imagine that if you work for the Divine, the whole being participates, and if you aspire to progress, the whole being participates. You are satisfied once all contradiction has disappeared either in the vital or in the mind, and once everything is in agreement and harmonious. Y

M o t h e r's   A g e n d a   1966-11-12 November 12, 1966 Yesterday was Kali puja,[[ Kali represents the warrior aspect of the universal Mother. Ceremonies in honor of her take place every year around this time. ]] and in English I would say, She has been outspoken. In the afternoon, she expressed ... (laughing) her "view of things." She was displeased? (Mother nods her head) And it was amusing, because it wasn't just here, it wasn't just the earth, but it was a displeasure even at the way of acting of Nature's forces.... See this irony: yesterday morning I got a telegram - an S.O.S. from Bihar, telling me that they have no drinking water, they are in a dreadful condition of drought and deprivation, a

August 19, 1966 (Mother resumes her translation of the debate with Death.) Think not to plant on earth the living Truth That's just what I am doing, Sir. (turning to Satprem with a smile) Do you think he hears me? Think not to plant on earth the living Truth Or make of Matter's world the home of God; Truth comes not there but only the thought of Truth, God is not there but only the name of God. (X.IV.646) (Mother remains pensive) Basically, according to Sri Aurobindo, materialistic thought is the gospel of death. No? It's very interesting. (silence) That's basically the point. We say Savitri is an "epic"; so Savitri is the epic of the vic

February 16, 1966 About Satprem's mother: ... It's not a miracle that you are your mother's son: it's natural (!) It means many things.... It means a good atavism. It means Page 38 that the journey here did not multiply difficulties, on the contrary. As for me, I chose my parents ([laughing] don't go about repeating what I am saying!), I chose my parents in order to have a solid physical base, because I knew that the work I had to do was "very very difficult" and a solid base was needed. From that point of view I succeeded. But then, there were difficulties ... It doesn't matter, because from the physical point of view, it was good. But with you, it's not just that: it's psy

March 19, 1966 We spent part of the night together. There was something I thought yesterday I should tell you, but now I don't remember.... In fact, I think we did it last night! What happened last night? Oh, all sorts of things always happen. It's always on a plane of intellectual organization.... "Intellectual," meaning that it doesn't go lower than the intellectual: it's something coming from above which we spread and organize in the terrestrial mind - that's where we always meet. "Meet" isn't exactly the word: it's a habit of work. I must be going there very regularly, but when the night is full of lots and lots of things, I don't always remember. But last night, it so ha

December 21, 1966 (Mother first reads her "message" for the year 1967:) Men, countries, continents! The choice is imperative: Truth or the abyss. *** Have you anything to tell me? I wondered how a false expression (because it's false, I feel all this expression is false), how it could be worthwhile salvaging this false expression? Is it worth correcting and doing all this work when I feel this expression not to be the true one? Can it still be useful? The problem isn't like that. Certainly you must have observed two things: first the differences of condition while you wrote, and also a difference of "pressure" among the things that wanted you to write them.

December 31, 1966 Mother gives Satprem a red rose: The red rose is the order of the "knights of the Truth." Don't you know this?... I began placing it when Colonel Répiton came here, the one who made the Africa march during the war. Every morning I would give him a red rose, and with him I instituted it. Since then, when I give any man a rose (I give them a red rose), it's so he becomes a knight of the Truth. But I don't tell him. *** (Soon afterwards, Satprem proposes he might himself translate Page 307 a certain text in order to save Mother's time. Mother smilingly refuses and wants to do it herself:) If I listen, Sri Aurobindo will say it to me, so it will be

August 24, 1966 (Satprem normally meets Mother at 10 A.M., but this has progressively been put back to 10:30 A.M., and this morning, the secretaries left at 10:45 A.M. Over the past year Satprem's "conversations" with Mother have been growing more and more sparse, as this Agenda is witness to, the entire time being taken up by "very urgent" or "very important" communications. This situation will keep worsening till the end, when Mother, overwhelmed, will only be able to see Satprem a few moments, after twelve. Then the door will be closed.) It's totally absurd! If I hadn't cried out, they would have kept me for another half-hour.... It's a stupid life. I begin a thing at the time I s

March 26, 1966 (Mother first reads out a message for the opening of the Ashram's sport season:) "It may be good to remind you that we are here for a special work, a work not done anywhere else: we want to come into contact with the supreme consciousness, the universal consciousness, we want to receive it and manifest it. For that, we need a very solid base, and our base is our physical being, our body. We therefore need to prepare a solid, healthy, enduring body, skillful, agile and strong, so it may be ready for anything. There is no better way to prepare the body than physical exercises: sports, athletics, gymnastics and all other games are the best means to develop and strengthen t