September 28, 1963 Do you remember Savitri's debate with Death ["The Debate of Love and Death"]? ... According to it, Sri Aurobindo seems to be saying that Disorder arose when Life entered Matter. (Mother leafs through her thick translation notebook [[We are giving here directly the original English of those passages and not Mother's translation into French. ]]) Page 326 Although God made the world for his delight, An ignorant Power took charge and seemed his Will In other words, that Power assumed the appearance of God's Will. And Death's deep falsity has mastered Life. All grew a play of Chance simulating Fate. (X.III.629) And before, Sri Aurobindo wri

May 29, 1963 I would like a clarification on a passage from a previous conversation [of May 3], in which you said: "Something tries to draw less and less the attention and concentration of others...." And you added: "That is, to lessen the SENSE OF INTERMEDIARY necessary for forces and thoughts to spread...." What is this "sense of intermediary"? Do you mean your "role of intermediary" in the diffusion of forces? Do you want to lessen that role - to withdraw? It isn't "role"! The role is a fact, a sort of ineluctable fact, Page 153 absolutely independent of the individual will and consciousness - I am more and more convinced of it, fantastically so. The Work is done through a ce

December 29, 1963 (Note from Mother to Satprem) Satprem, mon cher petit, On the 31st I will see you in the music room, and I would like Sujata too to come at 10 A.M., because I want to try different key boards of the organ, and she will help me arrange them. My tenderness is ever with you signed: Mother Page 430

July 20, 1963 So what would you like to tell me? Tell me a story! I don't have anything interesting to tell. I have quite a stagnant feeling. Anyway, this time I've observed, carefully observed X's arrival, stay and departure. Because there were different opinions: some very unfavorable, that he always brought difficulties; others, that he always brought something positive. Well, to tell you the truth, there is nothing to it, ONLY what people think. Yes. Simply what they think. Otherwise, his arrival, his stay, his meditations, his departure: absolutely neutral. In other words, I noticed neither increased difficulties nor improved conditions. Things carry on in their own sweet

March 9, 1963 I'd like to ask you a question.... I haven't quite understood what you meant by "miracles in the Mind." What are they? "Sri Aurobindo performed miracles in the Mind," you said. That was when he brought the supramental Force into the mental consciousness. He would bring into the mental consciousness (the mental consciousness that governs all material movements[[ In other words, the physical mind, creator of the medical, gravitational and mortal cage we live in. ]]) a supramental formation, or power, or force, that instantly altered the organization. With immediate results ... that appear illogical because the process doesn't follow the course set by mental logic. He sai

July July 3, 1963 (This conversation took place a few days after the new Pope, Paul VI, was enthroned. Mother had asked Satprem to erase the recording, except for a few fragments, but he thought it fit to retain at least its integral transcription.) Here, your flowers [roses]. A magnificent color.... Then I have another photo of the Pope (Mother shows "Time" magazine). It seems it's the photo he chose himself for the press, to announce his election. It's better than the last one. (Mother hands the photo to Satprem) So, what do you have to say? You should be the one to say! I have to say. I have to say that I know this man. I have met him several times. I don't kn

March March 6, 1963 (Regarding an old Playground Talk of December 4, 1957, in which Mother asked: "Will there be a gradual transition from what we are now to what our inner spirit aspires to become, or will there be a break, will we have to leave our present human form behind until a new form emerges - an emergence whose process we cannot foresee, of a new form without any connection to what we are today? Can we expect this body, our means of manifestation on earth until now, to be transformed progressively into something capable of expressing higher life, or will we have to abandon this form altogether in order to take on another one not yet born on earth?" Mother adds:) Why not bo

April 29, 1963 (Letter to Mother from Satprem) Rameshwaram, Monday, 29 April Sweet Mother, On Friday X gave me a new mantra, then the next day he told me that during his puja he received an "order" to the effect that this mantra was not suitable and he should give me another one. I am supposed to receive the new mantra tomorrow, Tuesday. X said this mantra would be final and with effect. I do hope so, for I would really like to be through with all these changes and preparations and delays, to have the Word, as the Rishis said, and fix myself on it. I would like not to return to Rameshwaram any more and to be through with these dillydallyings. Anyway, I'll have to wait for anoth

dead! ... They'll become a plague. What will we do with all that? They will be far more numerous than the living and will crowd everything - what will we do with all that?" There, you see the type of reflection. (silence) The attitude of the living towards the dead is one of the most loathsome expressions of mankind's selfish ignorance. It's either a complete I-couldn't-care-less attitude, or else, "Ohh, anything to get rid of that!" I have some children here (they're no longer children), who live here with their fathers and mothers (who aren't very old), and some of those children told me "dreams" in which they saw their fathers or mothers dead and coming to them ... and they s

October 30, 1963 (On the occasion of Satprem's birthday Mother writes the following message.) Page 367 "A day shall come when all the beautiful dreams will become real, with a reality far more marvelous than anything we can dream of. With our love and blessings." I've put it into French, but it's something Sri Aurobindo said for you! I put "our," it's deliberate. And he said with assurance, "Do tell him this, let him not forget that all the most beautiful, the most marvelous, the most fantastic things we have dreamed of are nothing compared to what will be realized" - and yet that will be the realization of all dreams. But far more perfect, more marvelous, more comp