September 15, 1971 Do you have something to say? You don't have anything? No, Mother, nothing encouraging. (Mother goes within for a half hour) Strange, there's a child beside you. A child who must be between one and two years old -- blond. And he is looking, he is putting his hand on your shoulder.... He's.... He seems very, very intelligent. (Mother goes back within) No questions? Who is that child? I don't know. I looked at him, he grew till he was about 10 years of age. And he stayed there. I saw him very young, two years old, then he grew, grew to about 10 years of age. He had his hand on your shoulder and was always looking at you like this (eyes wide open

June 9, 1971 (First Mother informs Satprem that the article on "Sri Aurobindo and Bangladesh" has been translated into Hindi and sent to Delhi.) There's an onslaught of adverse forces. A ferocious onslaught. But the Response is beginning to come -- just a very small beginning. In each person there was like a storm, and it's not completely over. Everything you thought was conquered and pushed away is rushing back -- in the most unexpected persons -- under every guise, but mainly in the character, oh!... doubts, revolts, everything.... (silence) I was asked for a message for all of India [in connection with the Bangladesh crisis]. I gave one. (Mother hands the text)

December 25, 1971 Good morning! It's the festival of Light: Christmas is the festival of the return of the Light -- it's much older than Christianity! -- when the days were beginning to grow longer (Mother laughs). And next Saturday is the first of January. I'll see you.... I hope that '72 is going to be better! (Mother nods her head) More and more I am convinced that we have a way of receiving things and reacting to them that CREATES difficulties -- I am more and more convinced of it. Because, for example, I have rather unpleasant physical and material experiences about food. You know that for a very long time now I have completely stopped being hungry (I eat only to

March 1, 1971 (A note of Mother's.) There is a Supreme Divinity, witness of all our actions, and the day for consequences will soon come. Page 57

July 21, 1971 What do you have to say? What about you? Me? I still have a cold. I was cured, I was almost cured, but ... (gesture of an avalanche). But this isn't interesting. What's interesting is that the body is becoming more and more conscious, but conscious in a very interesting way. For example? That would mean mentalizing. I can't. (silence) Page 199 I am beginning to know what's going to happen, what people are going to tell me, all that. How can I explain it?... It's as if I had BECOME the circumstances, the people, the words, the.... The body is more and more conscious, but not at all mentally -- like ... like things actually lived. I don't know how

November 13, 1971 (Concerning the corrected sentence in the "Notes" of August 28 about the power to bring about death.) How was it worded? Page 297 "... For another WHO WANTS TO LEAVE, it's the end, he goes over to the other side." It happened again yesterday, I saw the same thing. I was told about a child who was very ill, incurable, and they said he was in terrible pain, he was very miserable -- the parents wanted him to pass away. He passed away an hour later. This morning I knew. I thought: Well, it's like in the "Notes" -- either the person himself wants to go, or those who are looking after him find he's too miserable, and they ask; so instead of suffering for a l

January 23, 1971 (Mother sees Satprem regarding the English translation of the latest "Notes on the Way" for the next "Bulletin." After the work:) Mother, I was thinking of the Agenda.... ?... Well, if I don't see you, the Agenda is empty. The agenda? What agenda? The Agenda, all the notes on the work of transformation. Oh! ... There have been some, but.... If it's not meant for publication, there is ... it's incredible what there was. But it's not for publication. But it stays only with me. I remember having said some things to R. -- I don't know whether she has a good memory.... You know, she came in when it had just happened, so I told her. But I didn't a

February 25, 1971 (Mother to Sujata:) There's an invasion.... Page 51

August 4, 1971 (Mother makes several unsuccessful attempts to record her message in English for "All India Radio" for August 15, the beginning of Sri Aurobindo's Centenary year.) Today is the first day of Sri Aurobindo's centenary year. Though he has left his body he is still with us, alive and active. Sri Aurobindo belongs to the future; he is the messenger of the future. He still shows us the way to follow in order to hasten the realisation of a glorious future fashioned by the Divine Will. All those who want to collaborate for the progress of humanity and for India's luminous destiny must unite in a clairvoyant aspiration and in an illumined work. (Mother gives up, S

September 8, 1971 (After a long contemplative plunge.) It's really a period of transition for the body. The body is realizing, becoming conscious of what in it prevents it from being immortal, and at the same time of what can be immortal in it. It has had moments of agony as never before in its whole life -- in connection with death, which has never happened Page 236 before. And it has understood that its very constitution was causing this, and what it had to change. I am ... as though on the threshold of an extraordinary discovery, but.... (silence) I could put it this way: the why of death has become clear, and the how of immortality is ... (silence).... You