March 17, 1973 I had a question I wanted to ask you. What is it? I was wondering about the difference between.... Youremember, in the past you used to go into trance, into the inner states. I wanted to know the difference between the trance you knew in the past and the one now? Completely different. So it isn't a "trance." No. Page 377 No, it's another type of consciousness. The difference is such that I wonder ... sometimes I wonder how it is possible - at times, it is so new, so unexpected it's almost painful. Aah!... So I ask myself, "What?" And externally I see but one solution: externally - I repeat OM Namo Bhagavateh. Constantly - that's for the o

June 7, 1972 What do You bring? ... And how do you feel? Well, I think I can feel your presence better. Ahh! In fact, I feel that alone can straighten things out. It's the Lord's presence passing through me - through what people call "me." An aggregate of cells which ... (laughing) took this form pretty long ago! Yes, but this form is very.... This form is.... It's most peculiar, you know: that [cellular] consciousness gives an impression of something trying to become fluid. Something is obviously trying to make it manifest a ... an otherness. Be an otherness. But how? ... (silence) The body is comfortable only when it is conscious of the divine Force acting (ges

April 18, 1973 What would you like? Stay like this. (Mother takes Satprem's hands and goes off immediately) Page 404

February 2, 1972 (Mother listens to the English translation of "Notes on the Way" of December 18, 1971, which causes a good deal of confusion between R., the American translator, and Nolini: "a muddle." Mother stops in particular at the following sentence.) "... Everything was simply taken away from me - themind is completely gone. If you like, in appearance, I had Page 51 become an idiot. I didn't know anything. And it's the physical mind that developed little by little, little by little ..." (Mother comments in English) One shouldn't repeat "little by little." It is not little by little. It was rapid because it took place suddenly. It came like

November 26, 1972 (A Note by Mother in English) Before dying falsehood rises in full swing. Still people understand only the lesson of catastrophe.Will it have to come before they open their eyes to the truth ? I ask an effort from all so that it has not to be. It is only the Truth that can save us: truth in words,truth in action, truth in will, truth in feelings. It is a choice between serving the Truth or being destroyed Page 316

April 22, 1972 (Mother silently hands some flowers to Satprem. Then she looks ... at what? She seems quite tired. Satprem informs her that he is moving to his new house at "Nandanam," on the outskirts of Pondicherry. Mother goes off ... somewhere, for forty minutes.) Page 162

January 15, 1972 (Mother gives Satprem her latest notes.) Do you have all these papers? ... I had given this message [in 1966]: Let us serve the Truth, [[Italics indicate words Mother spoke in English. ]] and someone asked me (in a childlike tone), "What is the Truth?" So I answered: Put yourself at the service of Truth, and you will know the Truth. *** Is it possible to develop in oneself a capacity forhealing? By consciously uniting with the Divine Force, all is possible in principle. But a procedure has to be found, depending on the case and the individual. The first condition is to have a physical nature that gives energy rather than draws energy from others.

November 2, 1972 (Mother sees Sujata) How is Satprem? Quite well, Mother, I think. And you, how are you going? But I wanted to ask you: how is Mother going these days? Mother isn't "going"! There's no longer any person to "go." Mother goes where the Lord wants her to go. (silence) Do you understand my condition? One minute the body feels it is going to die; the next minute it feels immortal. So after that, one can't ... one can't possibly say "how it's going." Do you understand? Yes, little Mother, I think I do. Only, Mother, it's you whocarry us along. So when we feel that things are working out for you, they work out for us also. That's how it is, isn't i

April 30, 1973 Do you want to ask anything? ... Tell me.... I don't know.... One would like to have the certitude one willpull through all this.... (Mother raises her arms silence) Certitude of what? Page 406 Of the outcome of the battle. [[I was thinking of my own personal battle in the subconscient, not of Mother's battle, of whose outcome I had not the least doubt. ]] (Mother raises her arms) The ultimate outcome is obvious. Yes, Mother, it's obvious. But sometimes, when one is in the thick of it, one really doesn't know, one doesn't understand what's going on.... No, you mean whether we'll see the outcome of the battle in this body - is that w

February 9, 1972 Good morning, Mother. I have nothing, mon petit, you're going to get skinny! No! (Mother gives some flowers, then her latest note) The first thing one learns on the way is thatgiving brings much greater joy than taking. Then, gradually, one learns that selflessness isthe source of an immutable peace. Later, in this selflessness one finds the Divine, and that is the source of an unending bliss.... One day Sri Aurobindo told me that if peopleknew that and were convinced of it they would all want to do yoga. (silence) We need a message for the 21st.... Do you have something? There are several probable texts, but perhaps you