Ramdas3 must be a continuation of the line of Chaitanya, Ramakrishna, etc ... . (silence) 1. Note written by Mother. 2. Note written by Mother in English. 3. Ramdas: a yogi from Northwest India who followed the path of love (bhakti). His whole yoga consisted in repeating the name Ram. He founded the Anand-ashram in Kanhargad, Kerala. He was born in 1884 and died in 1963. page 171 , Mother's Agenda , volume 1 , 2nd July - 1958 Ramdas does not at all consider that the world as it is, is good. No, but I know all these people, I know them thoroughly! I know Chaitanya, Ra

Have you seen Bharatidi? [[A long-time disciple (Suzanne Karpeles) and a member of the École Française l'Extrème Orient. ]] No, you know how I am, I don't go out. She saw your publishers in Paris and they told her they are impatiently awaiting (Mother is mocking) your book on Sri Aurobindo.... page 90 - Mother's Agenda , volume 2 , 14th Feb 1961 (Later, about a disciple who is very talkative but full of ironic wit - Bharatidi.) ... She kept me almost an hour! She told me, "The next time, I won't chatter." So this time it was only half an hour! But she has a very pleasant way of saying things.

I would especially like to understand the difference between the overmind and the Supermind - to understand it concretely, not abstractly. The overmind isn't part of the intellect. It's the domain of the gods. It is the domain of the gods, and that's what has been ruling the earth. All the gods men have known, worshipped and had contact with are there. Yes, a domain of gods, with godlike lives and godlike ways - it's not the Supermind. Yes, precisely - but what exactly makes the difference? I don't believe the gods have access to the Supermind. Yes, the gods stop at the overmind.

Now and then, for ... not even a few minutes (it's a few seconds), there is a clear perception of the true Identity, which is perfect Harmony, and then all disorders cease to exist - but ... materially they exist! Take a very simple instance: my teeth are all loose in my mouth - it s a FACT - and it's true that logically, such a condition should be very painful: it's not. And I see that it is so because of a Presence - that I understand very well. But it doesn't get cured, far from it! It's incurable. [[In a letter (see Cent. Ed., vol. 26, p. 352-353), Sri Aurobindo told the story of a yogi who could prolong his life at will (and lived for more than 200 ye

I said this to Rijuta the other day: there are immense periods during which things are prepared - the past wears out and the future is prepared - and those are immense periods ... neutral, drab, during which things keep repeating themselves over and over, and look as if they will always remain that way. Then, all of a sudden, between two such periods, the change takes place. Like the moment when man appeared on earth - now it's something else, another being. In any case, it is certain that we shall see the signs, or rather that we are now seeing the precursory signs.... I said that to Rijuta while announcing to her (she didn't know it) that the U.S

You know, it's as if the two extremes -- a marvelous state and a general decomposition -- were here like this (gesture of being inextricably intertwined). Everything, but everything is falling apart: people you count on give way, it seems there's a general dishonesty spreading, people getting sick all the time.... As difficulties go, there have NEVER been so many, never, and compounded: big difficulties with ruinous ones. This morning for a few minutes it was absolutely marvelous, but the rest of the time it's infernal. There you are, you see, that's life for you. Everything, all, all seems to be falling apart, the people you count on give way, but

I have replied endlessly, I have given all sorts of explanations about the organization of the School, about World Union, [[World Union - a 'movement' launched through the personal initiative of a disciple. ]] about the true way to organize industry (its true functioning) - so many things! If all that were compiled we could publish brochures! Sometimes I've spoken three-quarters of an hour non-stop to people who listened with delight and were receptive but quite incapable of making a written report of it. At times like that we could have used one of your machines! But when things are organized in advance, it may well be that nothing comes out at all - mentalizin