February 16, 1966 About Satprem's mother: ... It's not a miracle that you are your mother's son: it's natural (!) It means many things.... It means a good atavism. It means Page 38 that the journey here did not multiply difficulties, on the contrary. As for me, I chose my parents ([laughing] don't go about repeating what I am saying!), I chose my parents in order to have a solid physical base, because I knew that the work I had to do was "very very difficult" and a solid base was needed. From that point of view I succeeded. But then, there were difficulties ... It doesn't matter, because from the physical point of view, it was good. But with you, it's not just that: it's psy

March 19, 1966 We spent part of the night together. There was something I thought yesterday I should tell you, but now I don't remember.... In fact, I think we did it last night! What happened last night? Oh, all sorts of things always happen. It's always on a plane of intellectual organization.... "Intellectual," meaning that it doesn't go lower than the intellectual: it's something coming from above which we spread and organize in the terrestrial mind - that's where we always meet. "Meet" isn't exactly the word: it's a habit of work. I must be going there very regularly, but when the night is full of lots and lots of things, I don't always remember. But last night, it so ha

December 21, 1966 (Mother first reads her "message" for the year 1967:) Men, countries, continents! The choice is imperative: Truth or the abyss. *** Have you anything to tell me? I wondered how a false expression (because it's false, I feel all this expression is false), how it could be worthwhile salvaging this false expression? Is it worth correcting and doing all this work when I feel this expression not to be the true one? Can it still be useful? The problem isn't like that. Certainly you must have observed two things: first the differences of condition while you wrote, and also a difference of "pressure" among the things that wanted you to write them.

December 31, 1966 Mother gives Satprem a red rose: The red rose is the order of the "knights of the Truth." Don't you know this?... I began placing it when Colonel Répiton came here, the one who made the Africa march during the war. Every morning I would give him a red rose, and with him I instituted it. Since then, when I give any man a rose (I give them a red rose), it's so he becomes a knight of the Truth. But I don't tell him. *** (Soon afterwards, Satprem proposes he might himself translate Page 307 a certain text in order to save Mother's time. Mother smilingly refuses and wants to do it herself:) If I listen, Sri Aurobindo will say it to me, so it will be

August 24, 1966 (Satprem normally meets Mother at 10 A.M., but this has progressively been put back to 10:30 A.M., and this morning, the secretaries left at 10:45 A.M. Over the past year Satprem's "conversations" with Mother have been growing more and more sparse, as this Agenda is witness to, the entire time being taken up by "very urgent" or "very important" communications. This situation will keep worsening till the end, when Mother, overwhelmed, will only be able to see Satprem a few moments, after twelve. Then the door will be closed.) It's totally absurd! If I hadn't cried out, they would have kept me for another half-hour.... It's a stupid life. I begin a thing at the time I s

March 26, 1966 (Mother first reads out a message for the opening of the Ashram's sport season:) "It may be good to remind you that we are here for a special work, a work not done anywhere else: we want to come into contact with the supreme consciousness, the universal consciousness, we want to receive it and manifest it. For that, we need a very solid base, and our base is our physical being, our body. We therefore need to prepare a solid, healthy, enduring body, skillful, agile and strong, so it may be ready for anything. There is no better way to prepare the body than physical exercises: sports, athletics, gymnastics and all other games are the best means to develop and strengthen t

August 13, 1966 You know that scores of people have come for Auroville.... Instead of working, they spend their time talking and chatting! And they send me letters. Their whole mental ego is bubbling with excitement, all of them. Have you seen them? No. I am afraid they may "summon" me! They've already begun discussing what the city's political situation will be - even before the first stone has been laid! And one of them, the one with a Communist creed (he is the one who has the greatest energy and power of realization), is scandalized: he wrote Page 173 to me yesterday, saying he couldn't take part in something that wasn't "purely democratic"! ... So I answered him this (

December 20, 1966 (Letter to Mother from Satprem) Mother, I am writing to ask you for a grace. You know, you see. I would like you to tell me the truth about this book: is it part of the Page 300 things that must be? Or is it the effort of the writer's little persona? I read the long first chapter again this morning, and it's unreadable - it would need to be completely redone. I am wondering if it's not the same thing with the other chapters? Would you out of grace tell me precisely what must be, whether I must strive on, do my best and rewrite what has to be rewritten, or give up everything. I am a little sad, naturally, because I tried to write with the best of my so

April 24, 1966 (Message given by Mother for April 24) "I have already spoken about the bad conditions of the world; the usual idea of the occultists about it is that the worse they are the more is probable the coming of an intervention or a new revelation from above. The ordinary mind cannot know - it has either to believe or disbelieve or wait and see. "As to whether the Divine seriously means something to happen, I believe it is intended. I know with absolute certitude that the Supramental is a truth and its advent is in the very nature of things inevitable. The question is as to the when and the how. That also is decided and predestined from somewhere above; but it is here be

July 23, 1966 ... We're still receiving a number of letters because of the article in Planète, or from people who have read your book. And there are lots of them who want to come here! That's more serious! ... But anyway, we send them literature. We tell most of them that they have to prepare themselves. And I direct a large number towards Auroville; maybe that's the essential raison d'être of Auroville.... Page 155