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 eat anything, not

July 9, 1966 V. asked me a question about the Americans and Vietnam, so I answered him (Mother looks very amused and hands the text of her answer to Satprem): Question Are the Americans' presence and intervention in Vietnam justifiable? Mother's answer From what point of view do you ask the question? If it is from the political point of view - politics is in complete falsehood and I am not concerned with it. If it is from the moral point of view - morality is the shield ordinary men brandish to protect themselves from the Truth. If it is from the spiritual point of view - the Divine Will alone is justifiable and It is what men travesty and distort in all their acti

November 9, 1966 (Satprem reads Mother a few excerpts from "The Sannyasin," in particular the scene in which the Sannyasin is standing with his back to the temple door, having lost both his "spiritual heaven" and the earth in the form of the one he loved.) This image [of the Sannyasin with his back to the bronze door] was so strong, you know! ... Every time you mention it, I see my vision again.[[See Agenda 1, November 20 and 22, 1958. ]] It was so strong! There was the temple - only the door and the wall could be seen - and the top of a mountain with the abrupt slope downward. Then there was a narrow path between the temple and the precipice, and a roaring crowd surging up, coming

April 6, 1966 After having listened to the letters and reports read by the "secretaries": What about keeping quiet a little [in meditation]?... It will do me good. These people, I can't exactly say they tire me, but the cells feel a sort of pressure of confusion that hurts them. It's like being caught in a stranglehold of confusion, and it hurts. And every day it's the same thing. I tell them - they don't believe me. They think it's blackmail! So then ... I go through a very difficult little moment, very difficult. Afterwards, it gets better again. (meditation) *** (Later, Mother copies out a few lines from "Savitri" which she has just translated, and her hand scratches out

October 12, 1966 (After a meditation with Mother) Even now, as soon as I remain quiet with you when you are here, there is always a sort of limitless immensity, with such a pure, tranquil light.... And it's white, but a white that might have some blue in it, but so pale that it's white. Théon gave a name to this region (he had special names for all those regions), I don't remember, but above it, there were only the regions he called "pathetism" (quite a barbarous name), which were regions belonging to the unmanifested divine Love. I myself experienced the passage through all these regions, and this one [the region of white light in which the meditation took place] was the very l

August 10, 1966 They've asked me for a "message to the stars." Then, "Do you have a message for the Christmas issue[[Of the magazine called "= 1." ]] on the new man?" They asked me, "What message can we send? It will take two hundred years to reach its destination": the message sent from here reaches the star two hundred years later. But, of course, there's nothing to say that they'll understand French or English on the star! It's actually clear that they won't understand it.... They want to send signals such as "= 1," and they say they will understand - they'll understand that we are intelligent beings! (Mother laughs ironically) I don't remember the message I gave them. B

October 29, 1966 So, what would you like to tell me for your birthday? I'd like to do more for you, and better. Better is difficult. As for more, we'd have to have more time! We could do a lot, I know that, but we would need time. But I'd like to serve you more. There are lots of things, lots of things.... Last night again, we were together for a long time. But we are together to WORK together; you understand, it's not as if you are looking after me Page 244 and I am looking after you, it's not that: we meet because we work together. And there are vast movements of consciousness. To tell the truth, I don't like mental activity - I have never liked it. I worked a

October 15, 1966 The conversation begins an hour and a half late. All right. It's 11:30. I am not starting anything - neither talking nor keeping quiet (because that lasts a long time!) I'll try to play some music on October 30, if I can. I don't know Page 233 what will come.... One day, as I was sitting quietly, I wondered whether it would come, and suddenly I grew very tall, very tall, with large hands, and I was sitting before an instrument that wasn't this one: it was a much bigger instrument, and I started playing such a fugue! It was fantastic. I looked and saw myself with large hands, large arms, and a big instrument.... And it was very good (laughing), the MUSIC wa

April 30, 1966 (Regarding very generous disciples who send soup packets to Mother, who in turn gives them to Satprem:) They are two old ladies, of German origin, but Jewish. In Germany, they still aren't kind at all; Hitler's influence has been disastrous, the Jews are still treated with contempt - it's disgusting, utterly disgusting. So these ladies went to Israel. They are very generous. But some people still have prejudices, you know! In France, with Pétain, there was that grotesque affair of the "yellow star"; I think it has also left a very bad imprint. There are people to whom I wouldn't give these packets, because they'd immediately think it's very bad! No! Page 98

March 4, 1966 (Mother resumes her comments on Sri Aurobindo's aphorisms.) 115 - The world is a long recurring decimal with Brahman for its integer. The period seems to begin and end, but the fraction is eternal; it will never have an end and never had any real beginning. 116 - The beginning and end of things is a conventional term of our experience; in their true existence these terms have no reality, there is no end and no beginning. This past week again, there has been a whole development of that experience. Ultimately, with worlds it's the same as with individuals, and with universes the same as with worlds. It's only the duration that differs: an individual is very small,