Did you have something to say? (Satprem presents to Mother the manuscript of The Synthesis of Yoga before sending it to a new publisher in France:) I pray that there may be no difficulties with J.H. and the formerpublisher ... We'll see. Did J.H. have a sort of free hand to do all he wanted? He came here while Sri Aurobindo was here, and he asked [to publish Sri Aurobindo's and Mother's works], and Sri Aurobindo said, "Let him do as he pleases," like that! ... Everything was all the same to him. I think we should try, because we must free ourselves from thishold. For

Yes, charity is a horrible thing. Oh, for me it's a horrible thing. It's a way of puffing oneself up. So I told S., "If you can convert her ..." She is very rich (laughing), it would be quite useful! 7 Fevrier, 1970, vol - 11, L'Agenda de Mère

You know, that Russian woman who went up into the stratosphere [[Yalentina V. Tereshkova (on June 6, 1963). ]] (she went around the earth several times, I don't know how many), anyway she came on a visit to India and gave a lecture somewhere about her journey. And she said (in a very lovely way, it seems, I don't know her exact words) that she saw the earth from up there and that it was so beautiful, so magnificent! And she made this reflection: "From up there, there are no demarcations between countries, it makes so harmonious a unity that it seems unthinkable men should fight among themselves." That's lovely.... page 395 , Mother'ds Ag

There's a new phenomenon during the night. One phenomenon was there before, but has grown more precise: it's a place in the subtle physical where those with a body and those without a body are mingled without difference. They have the same reality, the same density and the same conscious, independent existence. There I see ... Last night (or the night before, I don't know), there were things like that: Chandulal [[Chandulal is the engineer who built Golconde. He left his body in November 1945 ... twenty-four years earlier. ]] was there, Amrita too, they met and talked, made plans together, just as they would have done physically on earth. It wasn't the first time the

The idea that things are not in their place, mon petit, is something I understood even as a youngster, and it was eventually explained to me by Theon. In his cosmogony, Theon accounted for the successive pralayas [[Pralaya: The destruction of a universe at the end of a cycle. According to Hindu cosmology, the formation of each universe begins with an 'age of truth' (satya-yuga) which slowly degenerates, like the stars, till there is no truth left at all; it becomes a 'dark age'(kali-yuga) like ours, and ends with a cataclysm. Then a new universe is reborn out of this cataclysm and the cycle begins again. There is a correspondence here wit

I still remember what Théon used to say (Théon was quite against philanthropy), he said, "Philanthropy perpetuates human misery, because without human misery it would lose its raison d'être!" And you know, that great philanthropist ... what was his name? In the time of Mazarin, the one who founded the "Little Sisters of Charity"? Vincent de Paul. That's it. Mazarin once told him, "There have never been so many poor as since you started looking after them!"[[Someone had written to Mother, "I want my money to be used exclusively to conquer the causes of our sufferings and misery." Mother had replied, "That is what we are working towards her

When P. returns from Switzerland, she will have some very interesting stories to tell. She has written me of experiences she had with Swiss children, genuinely interesting experiences. It is going on everywhere, everywhere, everywhere, and in a much more precise and exact way than one would ever believe. Even in America. page 239 - Mother's Agenda, volume 2, 24th June - 1961 The action isn't limited. That is, it's probably limited to the earth ... although manifestations from other planets or other worlds seem to be multiplying, too. And there have been experiences lately, rather curious ones. Other physical pla

Rita: "The actual fact of death evokes in me an experience in which one is thrust into space and soars up." Amusing! I found it very amusing. She is the only one, besides, the others are quite practical. [[This young girl, to whom death looked so graceful, was to die four years later. ]] Dilip: "A cessation of all physical activity caused by the absence of a source of energy (or soul)." It's not clear.... The other two are quite practical (!) Anand: "When the brain stops functioning and the body starts decomposing, it's death." (Mother

-339_The Mother's notes.html I was asked a question: "What is youth?" Here is what I replied (Mother holds out a note): "To be young is to live in the future for the future. To be young is to be always ready to abandon what one is in order to become what one ought to be.... And above all, the most important: "To be young is never to admit the irreparable." page 86-87 , Mother's Agenda , volume 8 , 29th March - 1967 Then Mother takes out another note she has just written to a disciple: "One is always deeply disgusted at one