January 1, 1969 Yes, there was ... It came slowly in the night, and this morning when I woke up, there was a golden Dawn, as it were, and the atmosphere was very light. The body felt, "Oh, it's really ... truly new." A light, golden Light and ... benevolent. Benevolent in the sense of a certitude - a harmonious certitude. [[Strangely, this year 1969 will be simultaneously marked by a general appeasement in international relations (few years have been so "peaceful" since World War II) and by the surfacing, around Mother, of a general wave of bad will and darkness. As though the safety valve were there. This is the year when the "haste [in the disci

Did I tell you the miracle that took place? You haven't heard about it? ... In Auroville we're going to build a big factory to mill wheat, but something huge (it's to mill wheat for the whole of India!), huge. Machines are coming I don't know from where, huge too. And they chose to land them at Pondicherry because going from Pondicherry to Auroville is easier than from Madras to Auroville. Only, when the ship came and they saw the number and the size of crates, they got terribly scared - it wasn't possible. Here it's a woman, Padmini., who owns the landing barges, and she refused. I had her told that I needed her help and she had to do it (because she had cla

But this king[[King Mahendra and Queen Ratna. ]] is a remarkable man. He has a remarkable history, but it would be too long to tell.... I was in contact with him before (gesture of mental communication), and I had said, "I won't speak" - and I didn't speak. When he came he looked at me, then suddenly (he was standing), he remained standing in meditation, he closed his eyes and remained motionless. And then he asked me his questions mentally - I received them. And the answer came from up above, magnificent. An answer with a golden, superb force, and a power telling him that he had a great role to play and had to be strong and so on. A very,

A little later There was, yesterday afternoon and this morning, a long demonstration of how the Mind brought about and permitted a certain change in the evolution of Matter for the Divine's play, how rejection of the Mind is useful ONLY as a means of progress and evolution, and how it will be fully used when the new being - the complete, divine being - manifests. It was very interesting. A demonstration. It's the continuation of the demonstration [of August 31] which showed that ALL that has happened is necessary. But this can be really understood only when you have got rid of the Mind. As long as you are bound to it,

.. Then there is little S.U. (do you know S.U.?), who isn't too happy with her work and asked me if I couldn't help her make some progress. So I told her, "Read Satprem's book ...." She started reading Satprem's book. She told me "If I don't understand something, what do I do?" I said, "If you can't understand, ask me." So yesterday, she quoted a bit of a sentence to me (you know how they do: they take a bit of a sentence and ask you, "Whatever does this mean?!"). I answered. It was a sentence in which it was said that there were two "positions": the materialist and the spiritualist; then you mention me, saying we should take another position, a "third position."

It's like that famous Nirvana - you can find it behind everything. There's a psychic nirvana, a mental nirvana, even a vital nirvana. I think I already told you about the experience I had with Tagore in Japan. Tagore always used to say that as soon as he started meditating he entered Nirvana, and he asked me to meditate with him. We sat together in meditation. I was expecting to make a very steep ascent, but he simply went into his MIND, and there ... (what I do, you see, is tune in to the person I am meditating with, identify with him - that's how I know what happens). Well, he started meditating, and everything quite rapidly came to a halt, beca

(On January 18, Mother received the Dalai Lama. It should be noted that Mother had long ago admitted a number of Tibetan refugees to the Ashram and Auroville.) Anything to say? I'd be curious to know what you felt with the Dalai Lama? A truly benevolent man. Buddhist benevolence, you know, and he practices it marvelously. He seems to have no ... no selfishness in him (there's no word for it in French). I mean, a constant concern to do the right thing. page 350 , Mother's Agenda , vol 13 – 1972-73 I told him Tibet would become independent again. He asked me when. I said, "I don't know." [[Mother replied, "All depends on the

O my sweet Lord supreme Truth, I aspire that this food I take may infuse into all the cells of my body Your all-knowledge, Your all-power, Your all-kindness. Page 337 O my sweet Master, Lord God of Kindness and Mercy. What you want us to know, we shall know, what you want us to do, we shall do, what you want us to be, we shall be - forever. Om - namo - bhagavateh For it is You who is, who lives and who knows - it is You who does all things, You who is the result of every action. And the body says to the Supreme Lord: 'What You want me to be, I shall be, What You want me to know, I shall kno

/Have you heard the story of the flying saucer? / Ah, yes! I have studied it also. However, I am waiting to have a physical experience. I indeed saw a flying saucer pass over Pondicherry during the war, I saw it clearly, with open eyes, and going fairly slowly, coming from the sea to the land. It was light blue and had a slightly rounded shape like this. I saw it passing by and said to myself, “Why, I have a vision!” I rubbed my eyes but my eyes were open, completely open… Suddenly I saw a form passing in the sky like this; I told myself, “How strange it is!” but as no one had spoken about it till then, I thought that I had a vision. I see many thing