May 3, 1973 (One day - it was on May 2 - while walking in Auroville's canyons as I did every evening, I decided to force the Mantra into the body.) Would you like to.... [meditate]? Or do you have something to say ? I'm endeavoring to force the Mantra into the physical mind. (Mother starts repeating the Mantra - thirteen times - until her voice is nothing but a halting breath, like a child's whimper. [[The recording of Mother repeating her mantra is available on cassette. ]] ) OM Namo Bhagavateh OM Namo Bhagavateh OM Namo Bhagavateh OM Namo Bhagavateh OM Namo Bhagavateh OM Namo Bhagavateh OM Namo Bhagavateh OM Namo Bhagavateh OM Namo Bhagavateh

September 6, 1972 (Mother calls Satprem and Sujata in at 10:30 A.M. instead of 10:00.) On your days, the Wednesdays and Saturdays, I see only the Ashram birthdays, but we're now more than 2000, just fancy! So it's.... I see the other birthdays on other days and several at a time, but even so quite a few people come on your days - next Saturday in particular, the 9th (a mass of people in the Ashram were born the 9th). All right, Mother, all right, I get the point! [laughter] So I'll have to call you at 10:30 instead of 10:00. [[Which means 11: 00 instead of 10: 30! ]] What about you, are you feeling better? A little better [a problem with an eye]. The world seems to

March 7, 1973 How are you getting on? Well, I really can't say.... You must know better than I. (Mother laughs) Personally, I keep hearing: peace, peace, peace.... (Mother plunges in, holding Satprem's hands in hers)[373] Page 373

March 30, 1973 Excerpts from a meeting with the teachers. (At the end of a long and distressing conversation that exposes the grudges of a particular individual against her neighbor, then angry remarks, then finally a request for "blessings" for a new trucking company, with a photo of the truck on the back of which Mother is asked to write something, one of the teachers announces that an epidemic of chickenpox and mumps has broken out at the school among the students and teachers, and that one of them has typhoid fever. Mother listens to all that.... This will be the last meeting with the teachers.) I hope you're not bringing any of that here? Page 383

January 8, 1972 What's new? ... Feeling better? ... No? ... I don't know. I don't quite understand what course we'refollowing. Why, I myself don't understand it at all! Simply ... (Mother opens her hands in a gesture of surrender). It isn't easy. It isn't easy, but it's what I was telling you: both extremes. It isn't easy, but all of a sudden, for a few seconds, everything becomes wonderful, and then again.... So I'd rather not speak about it. (silence) Now that I am here like this, in seclusion, the lowest nature of everyone comes out. They do things, thinking "Oh, Mother won't know." That's how it is. So this "Mother won't know" means there's no more restraint. I wo

July 12, 1972 I am always late! ... I think we should fix ten-thirty [instead of ten o'clock]. Well, if you say ten-thirty, it'll mean eleven! [laughter] Yes, yes! (Mother gives Satprem a little tap on the shoulder.) What do you say? Well, I say that Mother doesn't talk much! Page 221 (silence) Before, you ... you talked more readily. Yes. (long silence) I have a feeling I am becoming another person. No, not just that: I am entering ANOTHER world, another way of being ... which might be called a dangerous way of being (in terms of the ordinary consciousness). As if.... Dangerous, but wonderful - how to express it? First, the [body's] subconscie

June 18, 1972 (Mother sees Sujata, who has just lost her eldest brother, and she comforts her. This fragment of conversation has been noted from memory.) What has to be done for each one is done. Our consciousness is limited (microscopic gesture), it sees only a little part. The divine Consciousness is ... (gesture): it sees. What has to be done for each one is done. If someone has given himself to the Divine and trusts the Divine, the Divine looks after him. And ... (how to explain?) for instance, all that has to be done for you is being done every minute; and if you in turn ask the Divine to look after someone, that too is done. And done for the best. But

March 24, 1973 Good morning! ... Do you eat caviar? Caviar! It is a very good food.... I'm sure! I used to eat it, but now I can't.... Not so long ago I used to eat it, but it made my eyes swell. [[All salted food, the doctor said. ]] So I've stopped. How long since you last ate caviar? Oh, at least ... thirty years! (Mother laughs) Try some, and see what you think. Right, I will see! (silence) I brought you a flower from the garden: "Surrender of Falsehood." [[Double red laurel flower. ]] Oh! ... (Mother immediately takes the flower and puts it on her forehead, where she holds it a long time, silently) I take it in the largest and most profound

October 7, 1972 And your eyes? I can't stop the work; everything is programmed I'm notworried ... (Satprem reads to Mother some passages from the conversation of August 30 for the next "Notes On the Way.") That's all ? Will it do, Mother? ... I've cut quite a few things out, but do you think what's left is all right? It's very personal. I've cut a lot already; but, you see, if you remove all thepersonal parts, nothing much remains.... (Laughing) Nothing at all remains! For instance, when I answer your question about whether I still use the thinking process, I don't consider myself a "person," I'm simply a human "representative" whose answe

August 30, 1972 How are you? I think I'm well. Well, so am I! (laughter) (silence) Page 273 I can clearly see that instead of thought governing life, it's consciousness. And when the consciousness remains quietly open to the Divine, all goes well. A lot of things constantly come into the consciousness, from the whole world, it would seem (gesture of being assailed from all sides): all the things that negate or oppose the divine Action. They keep coming all the time like this (same gesture). But if I can remain quiet (gesture of offering, hands open), in an attitude of ... (smiling) nonexistence, a sort of ... I don't know if it's transparency - I don't know if one should