June 27, 1970 (Mother's face is swollen by a tooth abscess.) We'd need some "Notes [on the Way]" for the August Bulletin. But you have some! (laughter) There is something indeed, but it's a long time since you'vestopped speaking. (long silence) Still, once or twice I wondered if your not speaking was due tosomething in me? No! Something in my attitude, or I don't know what? No, no, mon petit! No, it's not that. It's not that. It would be that if I could speak to someone else, but with everyone it's the same thing. Something is going on - it's not that it's not going on, but ... (very long silence Mother moans now and then) Page 24

May 6, 1970 (Mother is unwell again. She has difficulty speaking and is very short of breath.) I'm not well. I can't eat anymore, and ... When I stay lying down, it won't do, but when I stay in concentration like that, it can do. So if you want to remain like that ... (contemplation) Page 182

March 18, 1970 (Regarding the latest Aphorisms and the English translation of Mother's comments.) 393 - We ought to use the divine health in us to cure and prevent diseases; but Galen and Hippocrates and their tribe have given us instead an armoury of drugs and a barbarous Latin hocus-pocus as our physical gospel. 399 - Man was once naturally healthy and could revertto that primal condition if he were suffered; but Medi cal Science pursues our body with an innumerable pack of drugs and assails the imagination with raven ing hordes of microbes. 400 - I would rather die and have done with it thanspend life in defending myself against a phantasma

February 11, 1970 (Mother coughs, her voice is quite hoarse.) I'm not well. Impossible to speak. Have you received the Aphorisms? Page 79 324 - "Freedom, equality, brotherhood," cried theFrench revolutionists, but in truth freedom only has been practised with a dose of equality; as for brother hood, only a brotherhood of Cain was founded - and of Barabbas. Sometimes it calls itself a Trust or Combine and sometimes the Concert of Europe. 325 - "Since liberty has failed," cries the advancedthought of Europe, "let us try liberty cum equality or, since the two are a little hard to pair, equality instead of liberty. For brotherhood, it is impossible; th

November 11, 1970 You'll read me your chapter. Yes. ... But what about you? You no longer speak. Me, I have nothing to say. When you have finished your book, I'll speak. Have you finished? Almost. That's what interests me, what you've put at the end. Page 369

November 25, 1970 (Satprem reads the second part of chapter 10, "The Harmony.") "... When the gaze changes, one can rebuild, the world." Page 374 (Mother opens her eyes wide and plunges in again till the end) It's extraordinary! There is a sort of ... a sort of EMOTION in it, which doesn't belong to this world. It puts you into contact with a certain ... I don't know what to call it, but it's like an emotion [[Mother does look moved. ]] which is beyond the mind - beyond everything, everything, not only the mind but the intellectual. Its a new emotion. I can't describe. It's strange. And every time it does the same thing, every time I say to myself, "I'll be

March 21, 1970 (The beginning of this conversation took place in Nolini's presence.) Have you received yesterday's Aphorisms?... Nolini might have something to say.... 407 - I am not a Bhakta [lover of the Divine], for I havenot renounced the world for God. How can I renounce what He took from me by force and gave back to me against my will? These things are too hard for me. (Mother laughs) So T. asks me what he means. Then, there is another. 411 - After I knew that God was a woman [laughter], I learned something from far-off about love; but it was only when I became a woman and served my Master and Paramour that I knew love utterly. What exactly do

January 17, 1970 What did you want to tell me? I had a visit from Paolo and N.... There are two things. But first,there is the plan for this Center - to be precise, of the outside of the Center. The outside, I didn't see anything. There is a sketch by L. I didn't see anything at all, I am open to all proposals. So then? He explained something I found very beautiful and would liketo submit to you.... As a matter of fact, when you spoke of that Center, you said, "I don't know whether the walls will have a slope or the roof." You seemed, to hesitate. Then Paolo said he re ceived a kind of inspiration and saw something very simple, like a big shell with on

February 28, 1970 (Mother is still coughing.) Page 87 The work in the body is going on at a quickened pace, but it's not easy... But very precise, very accurate. I told you that I spent a whole night with Sri Aurobindo, and he explained to me all that's going on for the body, in detail.... It's difficult. The state one used to find natural now so much feels like a state of perfect imbecility, so ... and everything one used to lean on now feels like nothing at all. So it's ... difficult. Things ... it's so interesting! We always think that certain things are dangerous (certain illnesses, for example, or certain disorders) and others are insignificant, and then it's shown

June 13, 1970 We have to complete our "program" for Auroville.... Auroville has come to prepare the coming of the new species. (Mother writes) Page 231 5. The whole earth must prepare for the advent of the new species, and Auroville wants to consciously work to hasten that advent. 6. What this new species is to be will be progressively revealed to us. In the meanwhile, the best way is to consecrate oneself entirely to the Divine. Enough!... To be continued!... *** (Mother has Vasudha, her attendant, called, and with Sujata's help starts sorting out old papers. She comes across a 1967 file containing her "Instructions in the event of a catalepti