September 11, 1971 Everyone is quarreling! Everyone, everywhere. Squabbles, squabbles, squabbles -- all the time, night and day, constantly. At night too! Yes! (laughter) And at the same time there is the solution: an im-per-turb-able calm. It's as if it wanted to teach the body a lesson. But ridiculous squabbles, you know, everyone, absolutely everyone. Some accusing others -- they accuse each other -- and everyone telling lies! Everything is twisted. Everything is twisted, nothing is clear. I Page 238 have never (my God, I've been here a long time), I have never seen that to such a degree, with such a terrible restlessness. And my body is aware that if it loses

April 3, 1971 (Another sign of the times. This conversation concerns one of the Ashram presses which was, despite Mother's instructions, about to sell fraudulently a cheaper edition of "Superman hood" in Europe and Canada, while the rights to the book were reserved. This cheaper edition was exclusively intended for India. Satprem protests in particular against the jacket and presentation of the book, which are patently designed to make as much money as possible at a minimum cost. Mother's face is swollen, her eyes too.) I am disgusted. I can't trust anyone! They're selling books the way you'd sell margarine or peanuts. When someone lies like that, it's fin

March 24, 1971 (Another sign of the times: The disciple who works in the Ashram post office refused to put stamps on Satprem's letters -- why, we don't know. At the time Satprem was giving all his money to Mother and possessed nothing personally. Mother is therefore forced to sign a note in her own hand so that Satprem's letters get stamped. Then she remains very interior ized during the whole interview. It was the same on March 20, at the last interview: that day, she gave Satprem the first copy of "On the Way to Supermanhood," then went within the rest of the time.) Page 73 Do you want to say anything? (Mother shakes her head and goes within) Nothing

August 18, 1971 The body has the impression that it has to learn a new way to live, and it is learning new things all the time. But they're tiny little things, that is, there's a kind of secret to be found, an attitude that must be steadfast, making circumstances as good as they can be. It's something equivalent to the mantra. For the time being the body repeats the mantra, but it knows that it's.... There's something to be learned that physically replaces the mantra. (Mother goes within) What's on your mind? What I personally find difficult is permanence -- to establish apermanence. It's very difficult. A permanence of what? Consciousness? Yes, consciousness. Pag

June 3, 1971 (To Sujata) Tell Satprem that whatever the circumstances, he must go down very, very deep into his heart: "Lord, what You want, Lord, what You want." No questioning, no asking why -- this (forehead) silent, and here (heart) remaining steadfastly like this (gesture of clenched fists) with an intense prayer: Lord, what You want, what You want.... Page 158

June 23, 1971 (Mother listens to the reading of various letters of Sri Aurobindo for the next Bulletin and selects this one:) "What your vital being seems to have kept all along is the 'bargain' or the 'mess' attitude in these matters. One gives some kind of commodity which he calls devotion or surrender and in return the Mother is under obligation to supply satisfaction for all demands and desires spiritual, mental, vital and physical, and, if she falls short in her task, she has broken her contract. The Ashram is a sort of communal hotel or mess, the Mother is the hotel-keeper or mess-manager. One gives what one can or chooses to give, or it may be nothing at all except the afo

May 30, 1971 (Sujata's visit to Mother) Falsehood has become acute and terrible. It has to go, so it's clinging. Since yesterday it's become so terrible that no one can be trusted. Page 153 June

January 27, 1971 (Mother hands to Satprem a note that she sent to an Aurovillian) "It is the old methods of yoga that demand silence and solitude. The yoga of tomorrow is to find the Divine in work and in contact with the world." * * * (Then a quotation from Sri Aurobindo that Mother wants to include in the next "Bulletin.") "The power that works in this yoga is of a thorough- going character and tolerates in the end nothing great or small that is an obstacle to the Truth and its realisation." Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga, XXIII. 803 * * * Tell me, the introduction to your book[[On the Way to Supermanhood. ]] was supposed to be published in January.... But

November 27, 1971 So, how are you? So-so. So-so!... I have some notes that can be used for February -- things I said. (Mother hands a piece of paper to Satprem) "A victory won over the lower nature willgive a deeper and more lasting joy than any outer success." And then this (Mother hands another paper). This is an experience I had yesterday ... (Mother smiles with her eyes closed). All of a sudden I saw -- I saw the world in another way. For a moment, all of a sudden I saw as ... as the Divine sees the world, you understand? There was no longer the human vision. And I saw something so marvelous.... It was so marvelous I can't describe it. Then slowly the huma

August 11, 1971 (Mother gives Satprem a note she has just written.) "When men become disgusted with the falsehood they live in, then the world will be ready for the reign of Truth." * * * (Then another note she had had read to K.K. Birla, one of India's foremost industrialists.) "Truth is within men's reach, but they care nothing about Truth." * * * You have something to say? What is happening right now? (Mother sits with her eyes closed, tries several times to speak, then goes back within until the end) You have nothing else to say? How do you see that pact? [[The Indo-Russian pact which has just been signed in Delhi by Gromyko and Swaran Singh. This i