March 3, 1965 Have you brought something? There's a beautiful aphorism. (Satprem reads:) 109 - All things seem hard to man that are above his attained level and they are hard to his unaided effort; but they become at once easy and simple when God in man takes up the contract. It's perfect. There is nothing to say. Just two or three days ago I wrote something in reply to a question, and I said something like this: Sri Aurobindo is the Lord, but only a part of the Lord, not the Lord in His totality because the Lord is All - all that is manifested and all that is not manifested. Then I wrote: There is nothing that isn't the Lord, nothing - there is nothing that isn't the Lord,

January 24, 1965 (From Mother to Satprem) (All of Satprem's letters from Vellore, like the others, unfortunately disappeared. Satprem had written to Mother asking for a mantra, especially since he had given up the Tantric discipline.) January 24, '65 Satprem, Here is Ganesh who dances so you may be cured SOON. Tenderness Signed: Mother Page 22 P.S. I heard your request, and I have sent you a mantra that begins with OM. I would like you to hear it within. Try. With my love. Signed: Mother Page 23>

June 9, 1965 So, how is your mantra? Fine, Mother, it's a beautiful Mantra. I had a rather interesting experience. You know, there is always an impression that if you let someone else know the Mantra, it will lose some of its force, but I said to myself, "Never mind, I will do it," and the minute the decision was made, naturally I stopped thinking about it - it was gone. And in the evening of the day when I told you the Mantra, towards the end of the day, suddenly the words came with a warmth and intensity, as if ... (how can I put it?) they were rounded out with force. Then, at the same time, I remembered I had told you the Mantra, so I looked, and I saw it was what your consciou

November 13, 1965 Sweet Mother, for two or three weeks, some blood has been coming again. They gave you a treatment, are you following it? Yes, very scrupulously. That's troublesome. I don't have faith in their treatments. Doctors would not exist without diseases, you understand. I am not saying that they consciously encourage them, but they are on quite ... friendly terms. It's very subtle, but absolutely true. I see a given vibratory phenomenon of the cells with the Consciousness (let's call it universal Consciousness), and then the very Page 293 same thing seen in a medical consciousness - if you knew how changed it is! It takes on a very concrete char

October 20, 1965 (Satprem had sent Mother a letter complaining about his lack of experiences, in particular the fact that he never saw Sri Aurobindo, except once eleven years earlier, and that in addition Mother told him she saw him only rarely. In the end Satprem wrote, "I wonder what I am doing here?") I am not going to eat you, don't be afraid! (Satprem's denial) Tell me, have you anything new to add? Has anything happened since you wrote?... Nothing. You are in the same state? Calmer. Oh, good. But it's the same state, because it has been there for a long time. For a long time I have been saying to myself, "What does all this mean?" I don't very well understand. T

February 4, 1965 (From Mother to Satprem in hospital) February 4, '65 Satprem, mon cher petit, Your mind is still too critical, too anxious for traditional or classical accuracy. That is why you haven't received the mantra. Page 23 But do not worry, I will give it to you orally when you are back. In the meantime, rest peacefully in the Eternal. With you, in love and deep joy. Signed: Mother Page 24

October 16, 1965 I have just thrown a fit of indignation! Because almost without exception, all the people around me, who profess to want nothing but what I want, are apparently completely obedient, but their instinct is just the opposite. When I see someone, for instance, I see how he is, what he is capable of, etc., and when I see it's a man we can't count on, THEIR instinct is: "Oh, what a wonderful man!" And it's their INSTINCT, in other words, the spontaneous movement of their being is in constant contradiction with my knowledge. Page 273 So that means ... I can't say it's hypocrisy, but it's a purely mental attitude that doesn't correspond to the consciousness of the being

February 19, 1965 (Regarding the mantra Satprem asked for when he was in hospital but did not receive.) The mantra ... Did you get my note?... Several times while walking for my japa, I sent you the mantra insistently. The truth is that I intend to give you a beautiful present. Only, for it to be truly a beautiful present, it is necessary that the mind shouldn't interfere in any way; otherwise I won't be able to pass the Power on to you along with the words. It's a Power that has been growing from year to year. Up to now, I have kept it exclusively for myself, but when you asked me, I looked to see if there was something that suited you, and I so to say received the int

November 15, 1965 (For some time Mother has been giving Sujata packets of ready-made soups from Germany, Sweden, etc.) ... You'll become cosmopolitan, my child - cosmopolitan in taste. (Sujata makes a face) You don't want to? Is there something in your nature that doesn't want? (Sujata:) Food, ever since childhood I haven't liked eating. But mon petit, I have never been interested in food! I have never liked eating. When I was small, they had to think up all sorts of tricks to make me eat, to me it was the most absurd and least interesting thing. Well, I know the food of every country and have done a comparative study (!) of all cuisines, and I can be Page 297

July 31, 1965 There is a problem I'd like to put to you. What problem? A practical problem, not a yogic one! It's about Italy, N. and the publication of the book on Sri Aurobindo ["The Adventure of Consciousness"]. N. translated it and gave it to his friend S. to look after the publication in Italy. S. saw a publisher, who asked to read the book in French and found it interesting. And then, I don't know whether on the publisher's suggestion or S.'s, they are asking if it wouldn't be better to publish first a book by Sri Aurobindo like, for instance, "The Guide to Yoga." That doesn't exist! Yes, you know, fragments of letters were used to make "The Bases of Yoga" and so on, and