April 5, 1967 Mother writes a note on the windowsill It's the answer to a question. Have you heard what I said to the School's teachers?...[[See note in Addendum. ]] They've asked me another question. This is the beginning of my answer: "It is the division between 'ordinary life' and 'spiritual life' which is antiquated and obsolete...." *** (Then Mother gives Satprem roses and a garland of flowers called "adoration") Do you want this? (Satprem accepts unenthusiastically) Mon petit, when the cells get into this state, it's wonderful, you can't imagine! It changes life com-plete-ly. They are like that: a sense of wonder at the first Contact. "Is it possible? Can

September 9, 1967 (The "unbearable pressure") As soon as you want to do something, the whole opposite rises up in a mass ... with a degree of stupidity beyond all measure. Page 287 You want to create Harmony: everyone quarrels! Intelligent people seem to become stupid, they do silly things - this morning I have been spending all my time writing to stop people from doing foolish things.... Strange. Intelligent, responsible people, you understand, people who have worked for a long time - and ... tomfoolery. Oh, as soon as there comes a little power - the power of light, power of truth, power of love (the aspect of power in things) - as soon as that manifests (gesture of up

February 8, 1967 I have some interesting things to tell you. It's about that cold. An extraordinary healing power ... All the phases in their most acute form, with the study of the process, going through each phase in a few hours, or a few minutes (depending on what it was). When you have a cold, you usually go through one phase, then another (you know how it is), then it goes lower down, then there is a cough, then ... All of it was gone through quickly, and in two days it was over. And with the whole process, but not the mentalized process, not at all: the vibratory process, showing how the Force comes and acts, and at the same time ... Oh, it was very, very interesting, because the

September 30, 1967 Have you heard of the Pope's conversion? The Pope's conversion! No! I was very happy because it showed me that our conversations hadn't been in vain. I was wondering if he was conscious; I don't know if he was conscious mentally, but in any case it's interesting, you can read (Mother holds out a newspaper cutting to Satprem). Vatican City, September 26 The Pope, in an article published here last night, has said his journey to India in 1964 was "the revelation of an unknown world." Page 304 The Osservatore Romano published in an article excerpts from a forthcoming book of conversations with the Pope by a lifelong friend, the French philosopher an

March 25, 1967 (Satprem reads out to Mother an "old" conversation dating from ... two weeks ago.) ... It's gone. As soon as it's said, it's gone and away. When things are read back to me, I don't remember what I said, it comes like something new. As soon as it's expressed, it's gone. And always it's gone as though expressing meant emptying yourself of something and making room for a new thing - always. When you tell of an experience, the effect of the experience is as though exhausted and you are ready for another. Speaking always makes a void for a new thing to come in. And the impression is always: how old, oh, how old! I find everything old. The movement must be extremely

December 30, 1967 (Mother extracts from a heap of papers, letters and envelopes of all kinds, a note on Auroville, which was based on her words but written from memory.) (Laughing) All this hangs together in a marvelous balance! Page 425 (Satprem reads out the note) "Auroville will be a self-supporting township. "All who live there will participate in its life and develop ment. "This participation may be passive or active. "There will be no taxes as such but each will contribute to the collective welfare in work, kind or money. "Sections like Industries which participate actively will contribute part of their income towards the deve

February 4, 1967 Mother comes in with a bad cold There were constant obstructions here, between the nose and the throat, and I was silly enough to complain about it; I said it really didn't make sense and it had better go - so then ... the drastic method. But this morning I was told to "rest," that is, to go within. I said I had other things to do - then it came over me forcibly! Which means that something suddenly comes to me, I see it, and then, quite naturally, I concentrate on it - and I realize I've gone away! It was like that this morning, while I was working. They are always sending me photos of people who went to get married (it has become a craze), and I am asked

December 20, 1967 Mother comes in forty-five minutes late There is obviously a will to abolish the sense of time, because ... It's very interesting, there are all kinds of experiences like that. I have work that would normally take thirty-six hours out of twenty-four, so naturally, I get later and later every day: I go to bed later and later, and I have to do the night's work, so sometimes I am late in the morning, at times I've been as much as one hour late. Then in the morning, with a certain concentration, in a half-hour I do what would normally take me an hour. I have learned a lot in that respect. Now, at this time [10:45 A.M.], I can see that the only fatigue is the sen

April 3, 1967 Mother holds out a paper to Satprem: Here is what I wrote for the opening of the sports season: "... I must tell you once more that for us spiritual life does not mean contempt for Matter but its divinization. We do not want to reject the body but to transform it. For this, physical education is one of the means most directly effective...." *** Last time, there was something I didn't have the time to tell you; now, regrettably, it's only a memory - not quite, not just a memory, something remains. The effect remains. But while it was there ... Sri Aurobindo said, but he said it as the expression of a knowledge that had always been expressed on th

October 4, 1967 (Sujata gives Mother a flower called "Power to heal.") Power to heal? ... I've read in Planète the story of a man born in 1905, who for thirty-five years has been healing people by the laying on of hands![[ Mother is referring to Alalouf. See Planète N¡ 35, July-August 1967. ]] His father was Italian, his mother Spanish, and he was born in France, he is French. For thirty-five years he has been practicing the laying on of hands; he has treated five million people - five million. Out of them two thirds were cured, and he has been sued countless times ... by doctors, naturally: he had no right to heal people because he wasn't licensed! ... At one of the trials (I'll te