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You see, this is how it happened: there's this Ganesh2 ... We had
a meditation (this was more than thirty years ago) in the room where
'Prosperity'3 is now distributed. There were eight or ten of us, I
believe. We used to make sentences with flowers; I arranged the flowers,
and each one made a sentence with the different flowers I had put
there. And one day when the subject of prosperity or wealth came up, I
thought (they always say that Ganesh is the god of money, of fortune, of
the world's wealth), I thought, 'Isn't this whole story of the god with
an elephant trunk merely a lot of human imagination?' Thereupon, we
meditated. And who should I see walk in and
Anusuya: wife of the rishi Atri and endowed with a great inner
force. In her husband's absence, three gods came (Brahma, Vishnu and
Shiva) disguised as brahmins and asked her for something to eat. Then
they refused to eat unless she served them naked. Since they were
brahmins, she could not send them away without feeding them, so by her
inner power, she changed them into babies and served them naked. This
film was shown at the Ashram Playground on August 5, 1958.
page 187 , Mother's Agenda , volume 1 , 9th Aug. - 1958
But what does Anusuya represent? 3
She is a portrait of the ideal woman according to the Hindu
conce
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A little later
We're still receiving heaps of letters. Lots of people want to
come and are asking questions. There's going to be a crush of people -
some are arranging planes! So yesterday I said, "We'll have a direct
yearly flight: Paris-Auroville!" And they're going to prepare an
airfield. We are already in negotiations with the government for the
land: it's huge, we could make four or five airfields! There will be a
landing field in Auroville: Paris-Auroville! (Mother looks very amused.)
It seems that in 1972, there will be a new plane that will fly
from Paris to India (Paris-Auroville!) in four hours. Which means that
if
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(Then Mother sorts out flowers and keeps one aside for the Ashram's cashier.)
I don't have any money either. I owe him 15,000 rupees and
the poor man has to pay all the rents.... I have debts
everywhere! (Mother laughs)
That's how it is, it doesn't matter!
In the past, when I had money problems, I always had money from
here or there, it was easy: I would take it, and as soon as money came,
I'd put it back. But now it no longer works! I owe Amrita 20,000 rupees;
I owe H. 13,000 rupees; I owe the cashier 15,000 rupees. That's how it
is. It doesn't matter, I don't attach any importance to it.
It was certainly with the progress of evolution, the march of evolution,
when the mind began to develop for and in itself, that ALL the
complications, all the deformations began. Indeed, this story of Genesis
that seems so childish does contain a truth. The old traditions like
Genesis resembled the Vedas in that each letter [[In Genesis, Hebraic
letters. ]] was the symbol of a knowledge; it was the pictorial résumé
of a traditional knowledge, just as the Veda contains a pictoral résumé
of the knowledge of its time. But what's more, even the symbol had a
reality in the sense that there was truly a period when life upon earth
(the first manifestation of mentalized M
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(Regarding the New Year message: "Men, countries, continents!
The choice is imperative: Truth or the abyss." A disciple
asks
Mother, "What is the meaning of 'abyss' in your
New Year
Message?" Mother's reply, in English:)
Right now there is a great tension. They have all taken positions
as if to start war. It is the blind passion that men put into their
international relations.
At the base of it all there is fear, general distrust, and what
they believe to be their "interests" (money, business) - a combination
of these three things. When these three lowest passions of humanity are
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(To Nolini:) Do you know?
(Nolini:) At the beginning, when he came to Pondicherry [in1910].
At the very beginning.... But then, what does he mean when he says, "When I knew that God was a woman"!
(Nolini:) He always used to say that Krishna and Kali were one
and the same being. Ramakrishna, too, once became a woman:
God was Krishna and he became a woman; for a long time he
had that impression.
Naturally, for me, the answer is this sense of humor! (Mother laughs)
(Satprem:) Yes, you write to T., "Sri Aurobindo had the
geniusof humor and one only has to admire