October 12, 1966 (After a meditation with Mother) Even now, as soon as I remain quiet with you when you are here, there is always a sort of limitless immensity, with such a pure, tranquil light.... And it's white, but a white that might have some blue in it, but so pale that it's white. Théon gave a name to this region (he had special names for all those regions), I don't remember, but above it, there were only the regions he called "pathetism" (quite a barbarous name), which were regions belonging to the unmanifested divine Love. I myself experienced the passage through all these regions, and this one [the region of white light in which the meditation took place] was the very l

August 10, 1966 They've asked me for a "message to the stars." Then, "Do you have a message for the Christmas issue[[Of the magazine called "= 1." ]] on the new man?" They asked me, "What message can we send? It will take two hundred years to reach its destination": the message sent from here reaches the star two hundred years later. But, of course, there's nothing to say that they'll understand French or English on the star! It's actually clear that they won't understand it.... They want to send signals such as "= 1," and they say they will understand - they'll understand that we are intelligent beings! (Mother laughs ironically) I don't remember the message I gave them. B

October 29, 1966 So, what would you like to tell me for your birthday? I'd like to do more for you, and better. Better is difficult. As for more, we'd have to have more time! We could do a lot, I know that, but we would need time. But I'd like to serve you more. There are lots of things, lots of things.... Last night again, we were together for a long time. But we are together to WORK together; you understand, it's not as if you are looking after me Page 244 and I am looking after you, it's not that: we meet because we work together. And there are vast movements of consciousness. To tell the truth, I don't like mental activity - I have never liked it. I worked a

October 15, 1966 The conversation begins an hour and a half late. All right. It's 11:30. I am not starting anything - neither talking nor keeping quiet (because that lasts a long time!) I'll try to play some music on October 30, if I can. I don't know Page 233 what will come.... One day, as I was sitting quietly, I wondered whether it would come, and suddenly I grew very tall, very tall, with large hands, and I was sitting before an instrument that wasn't this one: it was a much bigger instrument, and I started playing such a fugue! It was fantastic. I looked and saw myself with large hands, large arms, and a big instrument.... And it was very good (laughing), the MUSIC wa

April 30, 1966 (Regarding very generous disciples who send soup packets to Mother, who in turn gives them to Satprem:) They are two old ladies, of German origin, but Jewish. In Germany, they still aren't kind at all; Hitler's influence has been disastrous, the Jews are still treated with contempt - it's disgusting, utterly disgusting. So these ladies went to Israel. They are very generous. But some people still have prejudices, you know! In France, with Pétain, there was that grotesque affair of the "yellow star"; I think it has also left a very bad imprint. There are people to whom I wouldn't give these packets, because they'd immediately think it's very bad! No! Page 98

March 4, 1966 (Mother resumes her comments on Sri Aurobindo's aphorisms.) 115 - The world is a long recurring decimal with Brahman for its integer. The period seems to begin and end, but the fraction is eternal; it will never have an end and never had any real beginning. 116 - The beginning and end of things is a conventional term of our experience; in their true existence these terms have no reality, there is no end and no beginning. This past week again, there has been a whole development of that experience. Ultimately, with worlds it's the same as with individuals, and with universes the same as with worlds. It's only the duration that differs: an individual is very small,

December 28, 1966 Regarding a sick disciple: She's leaving for Hong Kong for three months. Three months! "The doctor's orders." Page 306 But Hong Kong isn't going to set her back on her feet! The doctor said something much worse than that, he said, "If she returns to Pondicherry before spending at least two months in a cool climate" (and Hong Kong isn't cool!), "she will be incurably ill, her liver will never be cured." So faced with such a suggestion, I said, "I am not taking any responsibility: go and get your suggestion cured in Hong Kong!" They are terrible. And they said she was dying and they "saved" her, but that she would start dying again if she came back

May 7, 1966 (Regarding a flower which Mother has called "Power of material healing":) Oh, how I would like it to be true: when I put my hands here, like this (Mother lays her hands on Satprem's shoulders), it would heal! Because I feel such force in these hands! Such CONSCIOUS force - conscious, you understand: it's vibrant with consciousness, light and force. It should heal. It heals me. If I have a pain or something wrong, I put my hand here or there, and it goes away in the space of a minute or two. So why shouldn't it heal others! Maybe because nobody would be ill anymore! (Mother laughs) In fact, that's right. We speak of the supramental world, but it's simply a world in

June 25, 1966 This morning towards five, you came and told me lots of things. Oh, really! Were you sleeping? Page 138 Yes, certainly. I was awake, taking my walk - my japa-walk. You came and spoke to me, you even asked me (laughing), "Did you see Sri Aurobindo this night?" So I told you all kinds of things, but I also told you, "No, I won't have anything left to tell you this morning!" And here I am, telling you everything. Nothing sensational last night. It was a night of great rest. So that's what I can tell you, that's all. But it was amusing, and I said, "Oh, you are so conscious you come and talk to me!" But then you weren't conscious! Which means that this [Satprem's ou

September 30, 1966 After reading a hitherto unpublished letter of Sri Aurobindo's "... Although St. Paul had remarkable mystic experiences and, certainly, much profound spiritual knowledge (profound rather than wide, I think) - I would not swear to it that he is referring [["For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory." (I Corinthians 15:53-54) ]] to the supramentalised body (physical body). Perhaps to the supramental body or to some other