July July 4, 1962 The other day, Pavitra said to me in passing, "Modern science would neither follow nor believe us." According to him, scientists acknowledge only "essential hypotheses," and not having the experience, would take our science for a set of "non-essential" hypotheses. I didn't argue, or else I would have told him, "We don't make any hypotheses, far from it, we simply state our experiences." They are free to disbelieve us or to think we're half crazy or hallucinating - that's up to them, it's their business. But we don't make hypotheses, we speak of things we know and have experienced. For several hours afterwards I had a vision of this state of mind and found absolutely

July 14, 1962 Mon petit, last night for the first time I saw you, just as you are, coming to me. "How wonderful!" I said to you. You came up like this (Mother makes a gesture close to her face) and looked at me. "He's conscious!" I said to myself. You weren't conscious? ?... It was around three o'clock in the morning. I have seen you very often in visions, symbolic visions in the mental realm, but that's not what it was. It was in the subtle physical, this close (same gesture); you came deliberately, and you looked at me. "Oh," I told you, "how nice!" I had a dream about you, but I felt the subconscient made it up. No, it must be a transcription. Page 255 A stra

September 26, 1962 (After listening to a passage from Satprem's manuscript:) It's very good! I'd like to see their faces ... it would be funny. After this, I go on to Alipore: the Supraconscient. It's going to be fascinating. Its difficult. No, it's very good. It will be a beautiful book - unusual. It's an original way of presenting things. Interesting, mon petit. Page 351 One day when you have time, I'll have to ask you some questions. Because for the Supraconscient, some things aren't too clear in my mind. You may ask me questions, but you will find all the answers in what he has written, don't you think? Yes and no. What do you want to know?

September 18, 1962 I don't have far to go on my translation of The Synthesis of Yoga (it's going very quickly), and I have found what I'll do next.... It will be something like those notebooks [Prayers and Meditations]. I am going to take the whole section of Savitri (to start with, I'll see later) from "The Debate of Love and Death" to the point where the Supreme Lord makes his prophecy about the earth's future; it's long - several pages long. This is for my own satisfaction. I am going to translate it line by line (not word by word - line by line), leaving a space between each line; and when I've finished Page 347 I will try to recapture it in French (gesture of pulling d

December 28, 1962 (Satprem reads Mother one last passage from his manuscript:) Evolution does not move higher and higher, into an ever more heavenly heaven, but deeper and deeper; and each cycle or evolutionary round comes to completion a little further down, a little nearer the Center where the Supreme High and Low, heaven and earth, will finally join. Thus for the two poles Page 469 to actually meet, the pioneer must cleanse the mental, vital, and material middle ground. When the junction is made, not merely mentally and vitally but materially, Spirit will emerge in Matter, in a total supramental being and supramental body, and ... All earth shall be the Spirit's manife

June 27, 1962 ... Personally, I have nothing to say. This is a period of study and observation. There is absolutely nothing to say. It's a whole world of minute observations which, I hope, will lead me towards something more ... positive. More exactly, it's a demonstration of the inadequacy of the usual methods when it comes to acting according to Truth - and it goes on night and day. Two nights ago, I had an experience I hadn't had for perhaps more than a year. A sort of concentration and accumulation of divine Energy in the cells of the body. During a certain period (I don't remember when), every night I had a kind of recharging of batteries through contact with universal forces;

November 27, 1962 I don't recall whether it was last night or the night before, but I saw you with him, the two of you were busy with the book. And Sri Aurobindo was pleased. When I saw him (I was there, seeing the two of you), I thought, "Well, if Satprem could see this (laughing), at least he'd be pleased for once." Well, yes! In a place full of light. Now, read me the next part. I don't know why, but I'm more and more unconscious. Unconscious? Oh yes, more and more. Previously I used to remember a little - now nothing. Nothing! It's funny. It's because you're not going to the same place as before. You understand, you're going to places (laughing) you're still n

August 31, 1962 What about your sleep - any better? On the contrary, I feel a kind of drowsiness, but with no real rest or real sleep. No rest? No total relaxation? Try, mon petit, try again. Try again and again, it will come. It's not "sleep," it's a kind of peace that descends. It can begin as drowsiness, but it changes into a sort of inner immobility - immobility of the Spirit. The body too becomes quiet, quiet, quiet, very still; and from there, if nothing disturbs you, you flow into a sense of eternity. It's a wonderful experience. The real sense of Eternity: everything stops, and then NOTHING. And if you have the gift of vision (it's not necessary, but if you do), you

June 9, 1962 (In the course of the preceding conversation, Satprem had thought that rather than a subjective change, a change in one's attitude towards things, there should be an objective change, a power capable of changing the very substance of things: their property of hardness, for instance. Here Mother elucidates her previous statement that "if matter were changeable, it would have changed long ago," a statement that, at first glance, seemed to shatter all hope of transformation.) There is nothing to change! Only the relations between things change.... As an analogy, look at what science has discovered about the so-called composition of matter at the atomic level - there's nothi

June 6, 1962 Did you see anything last night? Feel anything? ?? I am asking because last night I tried ... it was around four in the morning and I was concentrating on trying to build that bridge [between your waking consciousness and the other consciousness]. You didn't feel anything? It's very vague. It's another way of remembering, that's why. It must give a sort of woolly effect to someone not used to it.... You know, when you want to draw your consciousness within - what people call "concentrating" - for meditation, for instance, or japa, well, to the sharp-edged surface consciousness the movement of interiorization is like entering something ... not exactly "smoky," be