June 14, 1967 (For the past eight days, Mother has been "ill," just as the conflict between Israel and Egypt was unfolding.) A great battle.... I have learned a great many things. And it's going on. I've made discoveries.... Diseases, accidents, catastrophes, wars, all of that is because the human material consciousness is so small, so narrow that it has a rabid taste for drama. And of course, there is, behind, the vital being having fun, also influences ... anyway all that enjoys an opportunity to delay the divine Work and make things difficult. And all that takes pleasure in that Page 177 naturally encourages drama. But the seed of the difficulty is that smallness,

September 16, 1967 (Regarding a rather painful letter Satprem has received from the same very Catholic lady.) Yes, the first impression was ... painful, then I took a good look; and at bottom, the whole trouble comes from the fact that this person has a very high opinion of herself, she judges everything from the height of her superiority - for instance, that air of benevolent compassion for the Ashram.... But that was my first impression when I saw her the first time, and it has been growing since then. And this letter has confirmed everything. So then, I didn't say anything, but yesterday I made F. talk about the lady, and she finally told me, "There is something I have n

June 17, 1967 With this Israel affair, I have been made to write all sorts of things, to answer all kinds of questions (Mother looks for her notes).... Did I show you this? "Those who serve the Truth cannot take one side or another. Truth is above conflict or opposition. In Truth all countries unite in a common effort towards progress and realisation." This was in answer to someone who asked whom one should "take sides" with. There is also that man who wrote from Israel, saying that their success, their victory exceeded anything they had hoped for. And he adds, "They seem to be too materialistic to know the real source of it" - he knew. But he says (he is A

November 4, 1967 (Regarding the storm that coincided with Kali Puja.) Your home isn't flooded, is it? In the room over there, water fell on the table beside my chair, so I put a flower pot and gave people all the wet flowers! Has Kali calmed down? (Laughing) Maybe she got dampened! She laughed.... She can laugh, too! *** (The conversation turns to Mother's Playground Talks - "Questions and Answers" - from 1950 to 1958. Satprem is preparing their first publication and complains that he cannot trace the original texts:) Q was quite free in her movements, there are even some Talks which she destroyed - she didn't like them! For a long time I used the

January 31, 1967 Regarding food ... What's necessary above all is to eat without hurrying: to eat very peacefully. That's indispensable. But very peacefully, not just slowly: there must be inwardly a sort of very slow rhythm, as if one had all the time one needed, in total peace. This (gesture to the forehead) must be calm, it must live in a sort of eternity. Then one digests well. If the thought is very active, it's bad. There must be a kind of inner relaxation and the sense of a very regular, very vast rhythm. *** Soon afterwards There is such a curious thing: at times the atmosphere is grumpy, grouchy; all that comes, all that enters is like that; at other times

July 15, 1967 Someone here, whose name is S., a man over forty (oh, yes, much older than that, I think he is approaching fifty), has been Page 214 learning French, but so energetically that he writes French really remarkably. He regularly sends me questions in French, and because of the care with which he writes, I reply. The other day, he wrote to me (I forget his exact words, but it was very well put) that he had just realized that aspiration for progress and the result of the aspiration were both the divine Grace, the effect of the divine Grace.... So I thought, "Well, well, let me see if he knows French well enough to have a sense of humor." And I replied this: "One

July, 1965 I am tired of our unworthiness. But it is not to rest that this body aspires, it is to the glory of your consciousness, the glory of your light, the glory of your power, and above all, to the glory of your all-powerful and eternal love. [[See Agenda VI of July 21, 1965. ]] Page 387

March 11, 1967 There is a question of terminology. I would like to put a noteat the beginning of the third volume of "Questions and Answers," in which I say: "We found it fit to begin this new volume with the Talk of February 29, 1956, because on that day, during the meditation that followed the class, there took place ..." What? "The first descent of the supramental forces into the Inconscient"? (Mother shakes her head) It was: Light-Force and Power. And it wasn't into the Inconscient, it was into the earth atmosphere. Light-Consciousness-Power? "Consciousness" is part of the totality, it will come later. Supramental Light-Force-Power? Yes. And is the word

February 22,1967 (Mother gives Satprem the text of an answer:) "Why is the choice imperative?" "Because we are at one of the 'hours of God' as Sri Aurobindo puts it - and the transforming evolution of the world has taken a hastened and intensified movement." (silence) Are you tired? Not tired ... - it's confusion. The nights are good, but the mornings ... (Mother shakes her head) (meditation) Page 61

February 25, 1967 (Mother gives Satprem a rose the color of fire.) Do you think Nature will ever invent something better than this?... I don't think so. Page 61 It's beautiful, this Nature! I find this more beautiful than animals. From the point of view of consciousness, it's obviously more limited; a plant doesn't have the consciousness an animal has - they have this aspiration towards the light, but the consciousness isn't precise. But from the point of view of material organization it's incomparable. Take a tree like this one (the coconut tree under Mother's window), I see it all the time, this tree, it's wonderful! And how it struggles, how it works, how it produces ...