August 10, 1960 (Concerning two teachers at the Ashram's Center of Education who wrote Mother asking if 'only' Sri Aurobindo should be studied. Pavitra was present during this conversation.) An eight page letter - nothing but passion. (Pavitra:) Yes, Mother. It's all from up here (Mother touches her forehead). (Pavitra:) Passion and reactions. Passion, passion - but this passion and these reactions are the same, thing. And then they stuff into it what they consider intellectual reasonings, but their intellectuality is not so terribly luminous - anyway ... (Mother shows the letter) Here, I'll read this to you for your edification (!). Page 404 'And final

October 2, 1960 (Letter to Mother from Satprem) 1960 Sunday evening Sweet Mother, As I did not find the translation of the Message fully satisfying, I have continued pondering over it. Then another possibility, which MAY be better, presented itself. Here it is: Ce monde merveilleux de félicité, à nos portes, qui attend notre appel pour descendre sur la terre.* In this way we keep the word appel [call], which is strong. All I did was change the relative pronoun (at first you had translated it as qui, à nos portes, attend notre appel. 2). . 'This wonderful world of delight, at our gates, waiting for our call to come down upon earth.' Signed: Satprem

Undated 1957 What is meant exactly by, 'I am with you.' Are we really always heard when we pray of struggle with an inner problem - in spite of our blunders and imperfections, even in spite of our ill will and mistakes? And who hears? You who are with us? Is it you in your supreme consciousness, an impersonal divine force, the force of the yoga, or you, the embodied Mother with your physical consciousness - a personal presence really in timate to our every thought and act, and not some anonymous force? Can you tell us how and in what way you are present with us? It is said that Sri Aurobindo and you are one and the same consciousness, but are the personal presence of Sri Aurobi

April 24, 1956 * The manifestation of the Supramental upon earth is no more a promise but a living fact, a reality. It is at work here, and one day will come when the most blind, the most unconscious, even the most unwilling shall be obliged to recognize it. Page 75 ISBN 2-902776-33-0

November 25, 1959 There is a difference between immortality and the deathless state. Sri Aurobindo has described it very well in Savitri. The deathless state is what can be envisaged for the human physical body in the future: it is constant rebirth. Instead of again tumbling backwards and falling apart due to a lack of plasticity and an incapacity to adapt to the universal movement, the body is undone 'futurewards,' as it were. There is one element that remains fixed: for each type of atom, the inner organization of the elements is different, which is what creates the difference in their substance. So perhaps similarly, each individual has a different, particular way of org

Undated 1957 (Note from Mother to Satprem) It is within oneself that one finds the Pretentaine.' 1. Pretentaine: name of the boat on which Satprem wanted to sail around the world alone. Page 126 ISBN 2-902776-33-0

June 25, 1959 (Letter to Mother from Satprem) Rameswaram, June 25, 1959 Sweet Mother, X told me to tell you what he has seen of my previous lives (but my impression is that he did not tell me everything and that there are elements about which he wants to speak to you personally). To begin with, I must tell you a dream that I had here in Rameswaram a few days after my arrival. I was being pursued and I fled like an assassin - it is a dream I have had hundreds of times for years, but in this dream, there was a new element: while being pursued, I climbed a kind of stairway to try to escape when suddenly, in a flash, I saw a feminine form hurtling into a void. Page 321 I s

December 20, 1960 Regarding Christmas, I'll tell you a curious story. For a while, there was a Muslim girl close to me (not a believer, but her origins were Muslim; in other words, she wasn't at all Christian) who had a special fondness for Santa Claus! She had seen pictures of him, read some books, etc. Then one year while she was here, she got it into her head that Santa Claus had to bring me something. 'He has to bring you something for Christmas,' she told me. 'Try,' I replied. I don't know what all she did, but she prayed to him to bring me money. She fixed a certain sum. And on Christmas Eve, exactly this sum was given to me! And it was a large sum, several thousan

Early May 1959 (Letter to Mother from Satprem) Pondicherry Sweet Mother, I have just spoken for a few minutes with X. He came out of your room extremely 'moved' (in his deep way). 'I was standing before Mother and I no longer knew where I was. At the end of fifteen minutes, I found myself there.' And several times, he said, 'Great Power, Great Power ... An Ocean. She ONLY can understand ...' And as I expressed my surprise - for while going to your room, he had told me that he would begin this special 'japa' standing before you only tomorrow - he told me, 'When I went into Mother's room, I felt the Order come from above, and I began immediately.' He told me that this

January 21, 1959 (Letter to Mother from Satprem) Rameswaram, January 21, 1959 Sweet Mother, Here is what X told me: 'I have received a message from my guru.# In my vision, the Mother was there, next to my guru, and she was smiling. My guru told me that your present difficulties are a period of testing, but I could already give you the first stage of tantric initiation and that for you, the three stages of initiation 1. The French translation of Sri Aurobindo's Thoughts and Aphorisms. 2. X's deceased guru. Page 272 could be done in an accelerated way. I will therefore give you initiation this Friday or Saturday, on the day of the full moon or the day before