The French language is very literary and mental, isn't it? Yes, it's very rigid. Rigid, yes. They're beginning to wonder what Auroville's language will be. I think it will be a language that will ... (Laughing) The children are setting the example: they know several languages and make sentences with words from every language, and ... it's quite colorful! It's like the Americans. Their language ... the English say that have totally spoilt the language, but the Americans say that the way they speak has more life. That's how it is. People who speak Esperanto wrote me an official letter

It's at the lake. The property belonged to the mission and at that time its manager was a very good friend of ours, even though he was a missionary. He said that he would arrange for us to have it. Everything was arranged, and I was to receive the money to buy it (they asked for more than fifty or sixty thousand rupees#). But then the money didn't come and our missionary friend left. He's no longer there; he's been replaced by someone else. (Mother looks at a piece of paper) 'Calling Antonin Raymond3.' The architect for the construction. Then there was also 'making ready temporary quarters for Z4.' But then Z left; he died.

Albano, Regina Apostolorum, 13 January 1972 To His Excellency Msgr. A.R. Archbishop of Pondicherry Venerable Lord, As Your Excellency knows, I have directed the Holy Congre gation for the Eastern Church for nearly twenty-five years, and one of my most cherished memories is the journey I made to your beloved country in 1953. I have always held a keen interest in your great nation, but even more so after I visited it. It was thus with a very special pleasure that I accompanied His Holiness Pope Paul VI to the International Eucharistic Con gress in Bombay.

(Mother first reads out for All India Radio the message she intends to broadcast for February 21, 1968, on the occasion of her ninetieth birthday.) "It is not the number of years you have lived that makes you old. You become old when you stop progressing. As soon as you feel you have done what you had to do, as soon as you think you know what you ought to know, as soon as you want to sit and enjoy the results of your effort, with the feeling you have worked enough in life, then at once you become old and begin to decline. When, on the contrary, you are convinced that what you know is nothing compared to all that

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

(Mother shows the text of a note she has written for the disciples:) "Every time you act under the impulse of Falsehood, it acts as a blow on my body." page 181 , Mother's Agenda , volume 7 , 27th Aug - 1966 I am not saying anything officially; because I have said and always repeat that politics is in complete Falsehood, based on Falsehood, and I am not dealing with it, meaning that I am not in politics, I don't want to be - but that doesn't stop me from seeing clearly! ... People have come and asked me (from every side, by the way) for my opinion, view or advice; I said, "No, I don't deal in p

I constantly see. At night (especially at night), I see moving forms that look like ... You know how J. is dressed, [[Like Punjabis, with a long jacket and tight-fitting pants. ]] or Dr. Agarwal [[Who wears a "Gandhi cap" and sports a long beard. ]] ... Oh, speaking of Dr. Agarwal, when Pralhad [his son] died, his mother was very anxious to know if he had come to me. I told her, "Nothing, I haven't seen anything." So I don't know if it's as a result of that or if I thought about it, but two days ago (the day before yesterday), I went for a stroll in a forest of the vital! ... Mon petit, it was beautiful! Oh, a magnificent forest, and so well maintained, s

Mother listens to Satprem read the July 11, 1956 Talk on the vital world. She refuses to have it published in the "Bulletin". To begin with, I said that the vital is peopled by small entities, small formations, the remnants of human beings who have died. But there is a whole vital world which has nothing to do with that one, a world peopled by beings of the vital proper, beings of great power and even great beauty. Most people who dabble in occultism without having a deep enough spiritual life are immediately deluded by them - some even take them as the supreme God and worship them. That's generally how religions are created. They are a great s

Even the body, the body itself, has the constant perception of bathing in the vibration of the CONCRETE divine Presence; so certainly from a psychological standpoint there is not the slightest shadow in the picture. Even from the material standpoint, this Presence is here. Yet although it is here, felt, perceived and experienced, there is still this disorder! (I call it disorder.) (long silence) It is a great Mystery ... oh! (silence) All is a great Mystery. (silence) What Sri Aurobindo calls 'the Great Secret' - a GREAT secret. The day we find it ... thin