February 15, 1967 (The following conversation was noted down from memory. It occurred apropos of a young disciple who did not understand how everything - impulsions, desires, etc. - could come from "outside," from universal Nature, while Sri Aurobindo other wise declares, "I become what I see in myself.") Page 50 I told him once that he would begin to be intelligent when he became capable of setting all opposites face to face and bringing them into a synthesis. What they lack is the sense of the fourth dimension, so they don't understand. There, everything holds together, in a very concrete, palpable way, the "outside" and the inside. As for Théon, he insi

January 21, 1967 (Regarding the English translation of extracts from recent conversations published in the Ashram's Bulletin under the title "A Propos.") ... What they especially lack is the sense of a FORCE in the language. Page 29 What makes things very difficult is that, in fact, there is no one who has the experience I have. That's what is missing. You understand well only what you have experienced. If you try to understand all that mentally, you can't, it's not possible; a keen way of feeling has gone. I read this "A Propos" to A. and Pavitra (you can't find people better disposed and more eager to understand), but all the subtlety was gone! - They didn't unde

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July, 1965 The other states of being, the vital, the mind, may enjoy the intermediary contacts. The supreme Lord alone can satisfy me. Page 387

April 22, 1967 (Mother gives Satprem a letter and newspaper cutting she has just received from America about LSD. There is also the photo of a poster inviting people on a "trip.") They look half mad - a bit more than half! Would you like to publish in the next Bulletin what you said about LSD? No, I think that would be giving them far too much importance. In America, it has become rather frightening.... There are a considerable number of people who take this drug. I don't think it's possible to stop them - they'll go on taking it till serious accidents happen, and then ... then the government will intervene and will add another blunder to this one. (silence) T

February 11, 1967 (Regarding Mother's "Agenda." Satprem is sorting out a huge stack of files.) ... Now that bits are coming out in the Bulletin, lots of people are beginning to be very, very interested and want to know. They ask me, "But are you saying everything?" I answer, "Everything, that's impossible. But I am saying more." Then, "Can't we know?" - No one would understand a thing. When it's completely over, we'll see. I am telling you this so you know this work isn't wholly in vain. Oh, but I'm sure it's not in vain, I am convinced of it! I don'tneed to be reassured. It will be a monument! It's better to leave it as a monument, not to publish it in bits: ma

September 13, 1967 (Still regarding Mrs. Z, the Catholic lady who hovers around the Ashram.) I have a nasty little story to tell you.... The other day, I forget when, F. met Mrs. Z, who told her (she too was in a concentration camp), "I would like ..." (word for word) "I would like Satprem to go back to the concentration camp to see if his reaction now would be different!" F. was so indignant that she couldn't help telling her, "But that is a monstrous desire to have!" There's my story: "I'd like him to go back to the concentration camp to see! ..." But the marvel is that I feel I could be sent anywhere, anything could happen to me, even the worst things, and ... noth

June 7, 1967 I have something to add to what we said the other day about the Divine. [[See Conversation of May 24: What is the Divine? ]] Someone asks me, "And whatever is God?" It's about a text from Sri Aurobindo. Here it is: Page 169 "Love leads us from the suffering of division into the bliss of perfect union, but without losing that joy of the act of union which is the soul's greatest discovery and for which the life of the cosmos is a long preparation. Therefore to approach God by love is to prepare oneself for the greatest possible spiritual fulfillment." (The Synthesis of Yoga, XXI.III.523) It's about the last sentence; someone has asked m

November 8, 1967 (Mother first reads out for All India Radio the message she intends to broadcast for February 21, 1968, on the occasion of her ninetieth birthday.) "It is not the number of years you have lived that makes you old. You become old when you stop progressing. As soon as you feel you have done what you had to do, as soon as you think you know what you ought to know, as soon as you want to sit and enjoy the results of your effort, with the feeling you have worked enough in life, then at once you become old and begin to decline. When, on the contrary, you are convinced that what you know is nothing compared to all that remains to be known, when you feel that what y

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