December 28, 1962 (Satprem reads Mother one last passage from his manuscript:) Evolution does not move higher and higher, into an ever more heavenly heaven, but deeper and deeper; and each cycle or evolutionary round comes to completion a little further down, a little nearer the Center where the Supreme High and Low, heaven and earth, will finally join. Thus for the two poles Page 469 to actually meet, the pioneer must cleanse the mental, vital, and material middle ground. When the junction is made, not merely mentally and vitally but materially, Spirit will emerge in Matter, in a total supramental being and supramental body, and ... All earth shall be the Spirit's manife

June 27, 1962 ... Personally, I have nothing to say. This is a period of study and observation. There is absolutely nothing to say. It's a whole world of minute observations which, I hope, will lead me towards something more ... positive. More exactly, it's a demonstration of the inadequacy of the usual methods when it comes to acting according to Truth - and it goes on night and day. Two nights ago, I had an experience I hadn't had for perhaps more than a year. A sort of concentration and accumulation of divine Energy in the cells of the body. During a certain period (I don't remember when), every night I had a kind of recharging of batteries through contact with universal forces;

November 27, 1962 I don't recall whether it was last night or the night before, but I saw you with him, the two of you were busy with the book. And Sri Aurobindo was pleased. When I saw him (I was there, seeing the two of you), I thought, "Well, if Satprem could see this (laughing), at least he'd be pleased for once." Well, yes! In a place full of light. Now, read me the next part. I don't know why, but I'm more and more unconscious. Unconscious? Oh yes, more and more. Previously I used to remember a little - now nothing. Nothing! It's funny. It's because you're not going to the same place as before. You understand, you're going to places (laughing) you're still n

August 31, 1962 What about your sleep - any better? On the contrary, I feel a kind of drowsiness, but with no real rest or real sleep. No rest? No total relaxation? Try, mon petit, try again. Try again and again, it will come. It's not "sleep," it's a kind of peace that descends. It can begin as drowsiness, but it changes into a sort of inner immobility - immobility of the Spirit. The body too becomes quiet, quiet, quiet, very still; and from there, if nothing disturbs you, you flow into a sense of eternity. It's a wonderful experience. The real sense of Eternity: everything stops, and then NOTHING. And if you have the gift of vision (it's not necessary, but if you do), you

June 9, 1962 (In the course of the preceding conversation, Satprem had thought that rather than a subjective change, a change in one's attitude towards things, there should be an objective change, a power capable of changing the very substance of things: their property of hardness, for instance. Here Mother elucidates her previous statement that "if matter were changeable, it would have changed long ago," a statement that, at first glance, seemed to shatter all hope of transformation.) There is nothing to change! Only the relations between things change.... As an analogy, look at what science has discovered about the so-called composition of matter at the atomic level - there's nothi

June 6, 1962 Did you see anything last night? Feel anything? ?? I am asking because last night I tried ... it was around four in the morning and I was concentrating on trying to build that bridge [between your waking consciousness and the other consciousness]. You didn't feel anything? It's very vague. It's another way of remembering, that's why. It must give a sort of woolly effect to someone not used to it.... You know, when you want to draw your consciousness within - what people call "concentrating" - for meditation, for instance, or japa, well, to the sharp-edged surface consciousness the movement of interiorization is like entering something ... not exactly "smoky," be

July 18, 1962 (Concerning the vibration of supreme Love Mother experienced on April 13:) Matter needs quite a preparation to make it strong enough to hold those vibrations, and ... and the body seems to be given a trickle to see how much it can bear. But there's such an immediate intensity of joy in all the cells, in the heart and organs, that it all seems on the verge of exploding. It comes just to tell you, "See, this is how it is." I can bring it on at will simply by putting myself in a certain state. But then I notice that someone ("someone" ... well, that's a way of speaking) is dosing it out, allowing the contact for a certain Page 262 length of time or in a certain

December 8, 1962 You said something mysterious the other day [December 41 concerning Sri Aurobindo's departure. You were speaking of the sense of impermanence you had, of total uncertainty, and you said, "It's no longer a destruction, but it's not yet an ascending transformation...." It was a real physical destruction; so I am saying it's not that any more, but it's not yet the realization. (silence) (Mother laughs) I didn't tell you the other side. What's the other side? That's for later. What do you mean, the other side? No, what he seems to be giving me these days, since December 5, is a very clear vision and experience of why he had to leave. But that ... it's

April 28, 1962 (Letter from Mother to Satprem) April 28, 1962 Satprem, my dear child, It would be good to get moving again on the book. These past few days I have started thinking about the August Bulletin. In a few days I will probably be able to start working. In that case, I could ask you to come in the morning and you could read me whatever you have ready. We will do the aphorisms in June; it will probably be easier then. Tell me if you have any plans for work (your work); we will arrange things accordingly. Page 133 You can bring me the work you have finished on the first day you come. With you always. Signed: Mother Later on, there will be many thin

January 12, 1962 (Concerning Satprem's question on the experience of the "supramental ship":) Did you get my note, petit? I've said something on the subject somewhere.... Do you remember that gentleman from Madras who had asked a question?[[An American, a friend of President Kennedy, who had made an analogy between tracking down a deer in the forest and tracking down the Supermind: " How can the Supermind be detected, in the way a huntsman would detect a deer in the forest? By which signs can it be recognized?" See Agenda II, February 25, 1961, p. 96 ff. ]] There was an indication there.... Because I followed the thread, I put myself back in contact with the experience of the