October 30, 1965 (Mother improvises on her organ for Satprem's birthday. The organ, long unused, gives a few creaks.) There. I hear at the same time. I don't hear what I play: I hear something else. So when suddenly something creaks, it no longer works! It's probably because it hasn't been played for a long time. I haven't played for nine months - the last time was ... In December. Ten months. After ten months, I play much better, because when I play often I remember what I have played before, so that's no longer it. It's not at all a question of practicing: it's a question of the hands not being afraid. That's all. As soon as the hands Page 280 become conscious, i

June 26, 1965 (Sujata shows Mother a sort of cyst that has developed in her neck. This banal incident is the starting point for a capital discovery: the "cellular spinning.") It's a tumor. Probably a hair that coiled up and the body covered it in a layer of skin, and then, out of habit, went on building skin around it: one layer, then another layer, then ... It's an idiotic goodwill. And that's how it is for almost all illnesses. *** Page 150 Soon afterwards I have a little problem I'd like to put to you. I would like you to give me an indication or ask Sri Aurobindo for an indication. It's about the translation into German of certain words: the word "mind" and the word "s

November 30, 1965 Mother takes up the translation of "Savitri": Imagining meanings in life's heavy drift, They trusted in the uncertain environment And waited for death to change their spirit's scene. (X.IV.641) Yes, those are the people who are hoping to go to a beatific heaven. The entire West is convinced, of course, that the earth has to be taken as it is and that it's a preparation for a life in another world, which according to your "faults" or "qualities" will be a heaven or a hell. But anyway, doing away with hell, all those who have goodwill will go to a beatific heaven. It's a weird invention, isn't it! Anyway ... But there is an accumulation, an