November 27, 1971 So, how are you? So-so. So-so!... I have some notes that can be used for February -- things I said. (Mother hands a piece of paper to Satprem) "A victory won over the lower nature willgive a deeper and more lasting joy than any outer success." And then this (Mother hands another paper). This is an experience I had yesterday ... (Mother smiles with her eyes closed). All of a sudden I saw -- I saw the world in another way. For a moment, all of a sudden I saw as ... as the Divine sees the world, you understand? There was no longer the human vision. And I saw something so marvelous.... It was so marvelous I can't describe it. Then slowly the huma

August 11, 1971 (Mother gives Satprem a note she has just written.) "When men become disgusted with the falsehood they live in, then the world will be ready for the reign of Truth." * * * (Then another note she had had read to K.K. Birla, one of India's foremost industrialists.) "Truth is within men's reach, but they care nothing about Truth." * * * You have something to say? What is happening right now? (Mother sits with her eyes closed, tries several times to speak, then goes back within until the end) You have nothing else to say? How do you see that pact? [[The Indo-Russian pact which has just been signed in Delhi by Gromyko and Swaran Singh. This i

October 23, 1971 (Satprem reads to Mother a letter from G., which ends with the following question.) He asks a question? Yes, at the end he says: "Mother, what sort of change may takeshape in life if one becomes just Thy Will but nothing else?" (after a silence) Supreme Peace, certitude, and even the functioning of the body can change. Page 274 (Satprem has not heard well:) You said Supreme Peace.... Supreme Peace is established and becomes constant, and then.... Then the functioning of the body can change. And certitude in the action also. A certitude in the action when you do things. That's all? It's very difficult to know what to do.... You ge

March 3, 1971 (After having approved the layout of the jacket for "Supermanhood" designed by Sujata.) You have nothing to ask? Page 57 I have the feeling your look has changed a lot.... (Mother nods) For about a year now, and increasingly so, it has resembled SriAurobindo's look. Well ... (smiling) it's possible! Before, your look was a "diamond look," a look ... it was you,it was powerfully you. Now, it's ... it's becoming like infinity. Oh, but my way of seeing isn't the same. Yes, as a matter of fact, Sujata wanted to ask you: when you look at people that way, what do you see? I think I see ... the most exact thing to say is their condition, t

December 13, 1971 (A note by Mother) Communications from the psychic do not come in a mental form. They are not ideas or reasonings. They have their own character quite distinct from the mind, something like a feeling with a self-contained meaning and influence. By its very nature, the psychic is calm, quiet and luminous, Page 331 understanding and generous, wide and progressive, it is forever striving for understanding and progress. The mind describes and explains. The psychic sees and understands. Page 332

March 31, 1971 You haven't spoken of Sri Aurobindo in a long time. Me, I have nothing to say. Page 75 What about Sri Aurobindo, is he saying anything? (after a silence) He's very busy with ... (gesture to the north) with everything happening in the country. It's serious, you know. But what is India waiting for? Waiting for what? Well, to recognize that country.[[To recognize officially the "provisional government" of Bangladesh under the leadership of Sheikh Mujibur. Only eight months later, on December 6, would India recognize Bangladesh. ]] Oh, she has recognized it! No, Mother, she hasn't. They told me.... She has expressed her "sympathy," that

August 28, 1971 Well, what's new? ... What do you want or have to tell me?... Nothing? Nothing, or always the same thing, rather. What's that? I'm waiting. Oh, you're waiting! So am I! (laughter) (silence) It's as if all the ways of seeing the world were passing by one after the other: the most detestable and the most marvelous -- like this, like that, like this ... (Mother turns her head like a kaleidoscope), and they all come to tell me: "See, you can look at it this way, you can look at it that way, you can...." But the Truth ... what is true?... What is true?... There is all that (same kaleidoscopic gesture), and "something" we don't know. First of all, I

May 19, 1971 There is something from Nolini.... A thought came to him andhe wrote it down; it's about Mujibur, the man who led the revolution in Bangladesh and whom they imprisoned. Yes, he is now in Pakistan. Page 140 I don't know. But a thought came to Nolini and he wrote it down: Mujibur's Bengal risked her body but saved her soul. Indira's India neither risked her body nor saved her soul. I refuse. I don't want to say anything against Indira! Yes, but what happened is that he wrote this down, left it onhis table, and as usual people go by; they saw it, took it, copied it, and passed it around. Oh!... That's going to get us into great trouble! It's very

December 11, 1971 (At the start of this conversation, Satprem reads to Mother the text she had asked him to write for Indian radio for Sri Aurobindo's centenary. This text is included at the end. Then the conversation continues.) I'd like to ask you something about one of Sri Aurobindo'saphorisms. When the aphorisms were first published in the "Bulletin," you had said to omit this one. It's a rather mysterious aphorism -- which I must say I would like to unde rstand correctly. So, since we are going to bring out a complete edition of all the aphorisms, I would like to know if we should publish it or not.... Sri Aurobindo says this: Page 324 76 -- E

June 12, 1971 (First, Mother gives Satprem a few copies of the Swedish translation of the introduction to "Supermanhood," then Satprem reads several extracts from Sri Aurobindo for the next Bulletin.) "Every sadhak has by nature certain characteristics which are a great obstacle on the way of the sadhana; these remain with obstinacy and can only be overcome after a very long time by an action of the Divine from within. Your mistake is not to have these defects, others have defects of anger, jealousy, envy, etc. very strongly and not only have them within but show them very openly -- but to accept it as a reason for despair and the wish to go away from here. There is absolutely