May 19, 1973 The last meeting (Sujata gives Mother a pale yellow, slightly golden hibiscus with a red heart. Mother holds the flower without seeing it. That day, I don't know why, I was full of questions.) What is it? It's "Ananda in the physical." We badly need it! Yes, Mother! And you? I was thinking about something Sri Aurobindo wrote.... In Page 417 "Savitri," he clearly says, "Almighty powers are shut in Nature's cells." [IV.IIL370.] In ... ? In Nature's cells. Ohh! ... Oh, that is interesting! ALMIGHTY powers. (silence) He doesn't say anything else? No, not on that subject.... The consciousness of the cells seems to be

August 12, 1972 Nothing to ask? Is there anything new? Oh, it's always new! And you, what's new with you? Nothing, Mother, I'm a little upset about my lack of consciousness during sleep.... I wonder what on earth I do at night! Page 267 (after a silence) Does anyone see Pavitra at night? (Sujata:) I see him almost every night. Oh, you see him.... Me, I see him just as when he was here; and he's busy doing things - a totally conscious and active life. Last night, he was speaking to some people, organizing meetings, he was extraordinarily active. Besides, he was among people who still have a physical body, who were sleeping, I mean who had come out of thei

July 22, 1972 I have some things for you. (Mother gropes for something on the table beside her and hands Satprem a note in English) Man is the creation of yesterday. Sri Aurobindo has come to announce the creation of tomorrow. Is that all? I wrote it in French and I put, "The creation of tomorrow, the advent of the supramental being." Because they are likely to call it "superman" if I don't put "supramental being." The advent of the supramental being. We are just in between. No longer this, not yet that - the time that's the most.... (brief silence) *** Page 230 (Thus, I sent to SABDA and All India Press the note signed by Mother. As was to be expec

May 24, 1972 You are ... (Mother holds Satprem's hands). I don't know if you are aware of it, but you are associated in all this work of transformation, like this (gesture of being carried along in the wake) ... as if you were fastened to it. (silence) But the work is taking place in a region beyond words. Yes.... For some time now I've been very much feeling your presence. Ahh! ... As for me, I always feel you're there, as though you were clinging to me, so each time something is accomplished, it is naturally passed on to you. (Laughing) Clinging like a child. Yes, I really feel it's the only solution. (long smiling silence while holding Satprem's hands) A

March 28, 1973 (That day, Satprem had the inner perception that a new phase was beginning, that Mother was "withdrawing" more and more within. Effectively, a few days later, on April 7, she stop ped seeing almost everybody, except the few regular disciples.) Page 382 Are you eating enough? Yes, Mother. What news? Are things progressing? I suppose so. I turn my consciousness towards myself as little as possible, because ... the sensation is VERY unpleasant. Things are tolerable only when I am turned exclusively towards the Divine and the material consciousness repeats, OM Namo Bhagavateh ... Like that. Like a backdrop to everything. OM Namo Bhagava

August 5, 1972 People know I don't eat anymore, so they've stopped sending anything. I've got all I need! Page 258 Yet I didn't tell anyone! I wonder how they came to know. I've got all I need, Mother! Really? ... I don't want you to get thin! (laughter) There are some interesting things.... (silence) What about you? What do you have to say? No, Mother, nothing. What are the interesting things? (after a long, smiling silence) I see certain things, certain events, certain patterns of wills ... I see them coming like this (gesture of a screen), I see them very powerfully and distinctly. And at the same time the sense that: this is how it will be with the

March 15, 1972 (Satprem reads Mother some parts of the conversation of March 8 for the next "Bulletin": "No compromises, no half measures, no 'It will come later'... it's like a constant feeling of hovering between life and death...".) Page 91 It's very true. And it keeps getting more and more acute, more and more acute. That's it. All the time, all the time like that.... Eating has become a problem. But ... at times, when the attitude is right, it's so easy! It's good what you did. But you said that, Mother, not me! (Mother plunges in she tries to say something, then plunges again) Page 92

February 28, 1973 (For the last ten days, the "conversations" have been spent in silence and contemplation - I have the impression that Mother wants me to understand something by another means. But what? Furthermore, the attendant is now almost constantly in the room. She no longer bothers to pretend being in the bathroom. She breaks in on the conversation, offers her own comments - of course, since Mother "can't hear. "... People go in and out of Mother's room as they please, and continue their own conversations. The atmosphere is quite changed This is perhaps why Mother tries to establish another type of Page 368 communication with me, another ki

February 16, 1972 How are you? Don't know. (Mother laughs and goes on looking at Satprem) You don't have anything, no letter? Yes, I received a letter from A., conveying a message from mypublisher B.C. (you know, the one who published "The Adven ture of Consciousness"). B.C. wrote a letter [Satprem reads it to Mother] saying he's reading "The Ideal of Human Unity," but would like to publish "The Synthesis of Yoga." So A. replied to him [Satprem reads the reply to Mother] that he is sending his letter to Pondicherry "for instructions," but that in his opinion "it would be better to publish first the 'Ideal,' which may be accessible to a larger Western aud

August 2, 1972 The "Formation of Death" On several occasions since the beginning of this year 1972 - and actually even in a conversation of September 8, 1971, where some of Mother's words had a strange ring to them - Mother mentioned the "formation of death" she was up against. Today, again, in the following conversation, Mother speaks of that "formation. " In occult terms, a "formation "is a strongly "formed" thought, or a concentration of force with a specific goal and a permanent exis tence of its own. Formations can be negative or positive. In everyday life, for example, wills or desires or long-nurtured suggestions one day come to their happy or sorry f