October 6, 1962 78 - When knowledge is fresh in us, then it is invincible; when it is old, it loses its virtue. This is because God moves always forward. So, what's your question? The knowledge referred to here is intellectual or spiritual, but for the supramental yoga, knowledge is... what kind of knowledge is it? A knowledge in the body, a physical knowledge? Sri Aurobindo is speaking here of knowledge through inspiration or revelation. In other words, when something suddenly descends and illuminates your understanding: all of a sudden, you feel you know a certain thing for the very first time, because it comes to you directly from the domain of Light, the domain of true know

August 25, 1962 (Satprem complains that he finds it difficult to write his book. Mother concentrates for about fifteen minutes, then says:) All right. He came and put all sorts of things around you for you to write. All sorts of golden things. So they must be written. You can tell me about it on Tuesday. And again he repeated, "No worry, no worry.... Take it easy, take it easy. " And it was as if he wanted to sit you down by a running river, as if you could see the water flowing, flowing, flowing, flowing so naturally along. As if you were sitting in a lovely flower-strewn meadow by a flowing stream.... And he was saying, "Don't worry, take it easy, take it easy." He was put

January 27, 1962 I'd like to ask you a question about those lines from Savitri I showed you the other day. I don't know if you remember - the passage about the "white gods." What did you want to ask? What was it that "the white gods had missed"? But Sri Aurobindo has written it all down in full, right here in the Aphorisms. He has mentioned everything, taken up one thing after another: "Without this, there would not have been that; without this, there would not have been that ..." and so on.[[88 - This world was built by Death that he might live. Wilt thou abolish death? Then life too will perish. Thou canst not abolish death, but thou mayst transform it into a greater living. 89 -

June 20, 1962 Pavitra was telling me the other day that, according to the latest scientific discoveries, matter in its present state can be immortal. There's no reason that it couldn't change (for it changes all the time) enough to avoid decay. Nothing in matter's composition stands in the way of its immortality - immortality of form, I Page 215 mean. If science simply follows its own course (and does not suddenly find itself confronted with something beyond its grasp), there's no reason it should not provide people who don't have a mystical or occult turn of mind with a way to use the present substance in imperishable forms, without recourse to anything from other realms. This

May 15, 1962 (During the night of April 3, Mother had encountered an asuric being who had managed to assume Sri Aurobindo's appearance, as well as a group of people wanting to found a Nietzschean-type religion. Following this encounter, a heart attack had gravely endangered Mother's life. But this was not the first such meeting.) I had said [on April 3] I would find the date of my first encounter with that fake Sri Aurobindo. What I found was the date of another experience that followed that encounter by perhaps three or four weeks, so that pins it down (Mother holds up an old desk-calendar page on which she had written.) Page 140 "Night of July 24-25, '59: first penetrat

February February 3, 1962 (A visitor has written to Mother about her difficulties, saying she is the victim of a "collective karma.") Those karma stories.... I often wonder, very often, whether it helps people to know their karma. I don't think it does. I mean, if they themselves discover the experiences they had in their past life, then it's part of a whole inner, psychic awakening, and very useful. But if some guru or other comes along and tells you, "Here, this was your karma...." I don't think it's useful, to put it mildly! If you discover the line of a former life on your own, that's different; it's part of an inner, psychic awakening, and it's very good. But I don'

October 24, 1962 (After listening to Satprem read his manuscript Mother enters into a long meditation.) He always comes here when you read. And such peace is created when he's here, such peace; something so solid. Don't you feel it? Yes, I feel the peace. (very long silence Mother listens to the peace the clock chimes) When he comes like this, when he manifests this way, you get the feeling that all the disorderly vibrations of life are being kept at a distance - everything becomes so peaceful and ... unconditioned: it depends on nothing, absolutely nothing. A peace coming solid and concrete, capable of existing anywhere at all - even on the Chinese border today. [[Three

M o t h e r's   A g e n d a   1962-12-28 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 th

July 7, 1962 (Mother listens to Satprem read some passages from his new book on Sri Aurobindo. The first book, Sri Aurobindo and the Transformation of the World, was judged "abstract and nebulous" by the Paris publisher. Mother comments:) They probably won't understand anything. For me, the other book was more self-evident. Yes, for me too. Writing it was more intense; I have no sense of inspiration with this one. My idea was to stick to the bare facts, to tell stories from Sri Aurobindo's life, the Ashram, things like that. This is still ... (gesture above the head). It's geared to intelligent people interested in things of the spirit. I don't see how these things could be ski

January January 9, 1962 (Mother has been unwell the past few days and is receiving almost no one.) Are you better? I think so! (Mother laughs) I don't know. It's strange, these attacks ... bizarre; they seem to have nothing to do with my state of health. It's a sort of ... decentralization. You see, to form a body all the cells are concentrated by a kind of centripetal force that binds them together. Well, now it's just the opposite! A kind of centrifugal force seems to be dispersing them. When it gets a bit too much I go out of my body; outwardly I seem to faint - but I don't faint, I remain fully conscious. So obviously this creates a sort of ... bizarre disorganization.