October 11, 1967 (Sujata gives Mother a flower called "New Birth.") (To Satprem) Tell me, what's a new birth? Being radically different. (After a silence) Becoming new every moment. This morning again, for, oh, more than two hours, absolutely a new person. And every time, with the work, the contact with the world ... [it fades away]. But it doesn't quite return the same, something is gone. For two hours this morning, it was still more than the other day, but not the same thing - never the same thing, never the same experience twice. But it was ... At one point I thought of you and said to myself, Page 331 "Oh, if he were here and could note this down, it would be

December 8, 1967 The only somewhat new thing is that the body is beginning to be a bit ... restless at its decay. Before, it didn't bother about it, it didn't give it any thought; it knew it was going on, but ... Now, it's beginning to be bothered. So perhaps it's a sign, I don't know? It's beginning to be bothered - not psychologically, but like this: when it receives a Command to do something and there is, not exactly an incapacity, but a limitation to the possibility, that starts its unhappiness. So I wondered ... Then at night it's the same thing, it says, "Why such a whole long period of diminishing consciousness?" Diminishing? You understand, it's happy and in what it r

M o t h e r's   A g e n d a   1967-11-22 November 22, 1967 The prayer of the cells in the body (The prayer of the body's cells) Now that by the effect of the Grace we are slowly emerging out of  inconscience and waking up to a conscious life, an ardent prayer  rises in us for more light, more consciousness: "O Supreme Lord of the Universe, We implore Thee, give us the strength and the beauty, the harmonious perfection  needed to be Thy divine instruments upon earth." Page 388 ISBN 2-902776-33-0

July 29, 1967 (At the beginning of this conversation, Mother expresses her strong displeasure that her so-called note on Arabs and Israelites [[See conversation of June 21, 1967. This was not a note by Mother, but the rough transcription noted by a disciple, which was published outright as being Mother's words. ]] Page 241 was published in "Mother India" under the title "The Jews and the Arabs." Mother protests against the use of the word "Jew," which corresponds to only one Israelite tribe and has taken on a pejorative meaning.) The word has so often been used as an insult.... Anyway, thanks to that, probably because that note was published, things have bee

February 18, 1967 All these last few days I have been considering the proportion that should be maintained between what was accomplished and established in the past and the attitude of complete acceptance of what comes from the future. There is obviously in Nature a tendency to want a slow transformation from what was habitually regarded as "good" (expressive, good, harmonious) to the new Thing. And I was observing the extent to which there is attachment: the attachment of habit, something very spontaneous and uncalculating. Then, recently (yesterday), I had an amusing example. Do you know little S.?[[A twelve-year-old Tamil child, very dark-skinned, adopted three years earlier

September 23, 1967 I've had another visit from Mrs. Z.... She is pertinacious. She won't let go! So what happened? I can sum it up in two words. She again told me about her religion, and I said, "But listen, if you are satisfied with that religion, follow it!" Then she said this: "But you have secrets which we don't have." Oh, so that's it.... Then what did you tell her? I told her I wasn't a guru, that if she wanted to follow this path, she had to have a guru and I wasn't here to spread the Good News. I told her, "If you walk alone on this path, you run the risk of taking your thoughts and desires for God's command ments, so it helps to

September 20, 1967 Someone has taken it into his head to print a brochure for February 21 next year [when Mother will be ninety], so they sent me the brochure and asked me to write a message on the first page. And for that brochure they have solicited (!) the opinion of all prominent people: there is Indira Gandhi, India's president, and what have you. And everyone says what has always been said millions of times over: "A great personality, this and that...." All the usual ineptitudes. So I wrote this: There is no other consciousness than the Supreme Consciousness. There is no other will than the Supreme Will. There is no other life than the Supreme Life. There is

May 26, 1967 (Regarding the New Year message: "Men, countries, continents! The choice is imperative: Truth or the abyss." A disciple asks Mother, "What is the meaning of 'abyss' in your New Year Message?" Mother's reply, in English:) Right now there is a great tension. They have all taken positions as if to start war. It is the blind passion that men put into their international relations. At the base of it all there is fear, general distrust, and what they believe to be their "interests" (money, business) - a combination of these three things. When these three lowest passions of humanity are brought into play, that is what I call "the abyss." When someone has dec

May 24, 1967 Yesterday, someone wrote to me and asked: "In the end, what is the Divine?" I answered. I told him that I gave one answer to help him, but that a hundred could be given, each as good as any other: "The Divine can be lived, but not defined.... Page 151 Here, I added, "But anyway, since you ask me the question, I will answer you." "The Divine is an absolute of perfection, eternal source of all that exists, whom we grow progressively conscious of, while being Him from all eternity." Once, Amrita also told me that for him, the Divine was something simply unthinkable. So I answered him, "No! That way, it won't help you. Just think that the

March 29, 1967 (Regarding the conversation of March 7 on "death," in which Mother said in particular: "There really is no such thing as death.... There is no radical change in the vibration of Page 85 consciousness.... You have a perception of the physical world which isn't absolutely identical but with an effectiveness which is sometimes greater...." Mother at first authorized the publi cation of this conversation in "Notes on the Way," then...) I begin to think that it is not good to give this kind of "livedknowledge" to people who are not capable of having it, of experi encing it. For instance, these last few days I have clearly seen that men do not