August 25, 1971 (Mother sits looking at Satprem for what seems a very long time. Her left eye is still swollen.) Something to ask? Do you see something? No, there's nothing. Page 222 (Mother remains absorbed for 40 minutes) What would you like to say? What is absorbing you like this?[[Approximately at that time, a former disciple, Rani Maitra, wife of the former chancellor of Benares University, was dying without Mother's knowing anything about it in her outer consciousness. ]] (after a silence) All the time, all the time, there is the "thought" of the Divine, but like a ... a kind of -- thirst to be and to understand. All mental notions seem artificial t

February 27, 1971 What news do you have?... (long silence) The problem is food. The doctors have put restrictions on everything I eat most easily, so it's.... Basically, I realize more and more that we live in total Page 51 ignorance. We really don't know either what should be done or how to do it. But surely that New Consciousness should make one do whatis necessary. I think we don't know how to listen. We don't know how to listen.... (silence) It's very difficult to disentangle the old impulse from the.... Yes, exactly. It's very difficult. Very difficult. You see, our practical knowledge is based on an experience that has become wort

May 27, 1971 (Extract from Satprem's notebook) Pranab-desh. [[What made Satprem put this laconic note in his notebook, what was the occasion, the reason? It is like a forewarning, which we shall leave as it is. Pranab is the name of Mother's "guard." Desh = territory or country. ]] Page 152

July 24, 1971 It's not over yet (gesture of tugging).... And you? I don't know, Mother. How are you? I don't know ... all right, I guess. (Mother laughs) You surely know better than I! I tell you, we are no longer here, we are not yet there.... So it seems stupid. The body is more and more conscious, and it is conscious of the old habits that pull backwards but it is also conscious of the new possibilities that are there, that try to.... There's only one movement to make, a movement of adherence, and ... everything would be all right -- MARVELOUSLY all right. The old thing is like an old wall being torn down. That's it. So it's quite a ridiculous situation. The body

February 13, 1971 (Mother reads her message for Indian radio.) "True liberty is an ascending movement, not yielding to the lower instincts. Page 47 True liberty is a divine manifestation. We want the true liberty for India so that she may be the right example for the world as the demonstration of what humanity must become." * * * (After the reading of Chapter 14 of On the Way to Supermanhood, "The Victory over Death.") I have the feeling of a new consciousness being formed. Page 48

November 10, 1971 Well, do you have anything? I have something, but what about you? Me ... for the moment.... (Mother seems tired) I don't know if something will come later. The consciousness [of the body] is changing very fast. I'll see later if something comes. Tell me first what you have. An Auroville story. Auroville? What happened? A few days ago I received a letter from a young man who is anarchitect there, Z (I don't know him). He wrote me saying that he would like to see me. Ah, why? Because he would like to explain to me Auroville's problems.So I replied: "Auroville's problems will be solved and cleared up only when Aurovillians turn

August 14, 1971 (It is the eve of August 15. Mother sees Satprem having been unable to finish seeing her usual entourage.) Is there something you'd like to say? No, nothing at all! I am all right -- even quite all right. I am quite all right. The body is beginning to ... I could say to have the true attitude. I mean it increasingly feels in a concrete manner and, I could say, ACUTE manner that there is only ONE way to exist -- in the Divine Consciousness. All the rest seems ... seems to it dangerous, unknown. To remain as though constantly bathed in the Divine Consciousness seems to the body the only way to exist. There is no other. That's the attitude of the body. It

March 27, 1971 (Mother remains very interiorized. One has the impression of a total passivity within tremendous activity. It feels as if one were in an almost crushing bath of power.) Here! (Mother is holding a full newspaper page on her knees) It's the introduction of your book ... in America. It's in "Ulster County" [the piece had been submitted withoutcomment by American friends to the Ulster County Townsman, a weekly newspaper published in Woodstock, New York, and the paper had published it]. (Mother smiles and goes within) Do you have anything? When one looks at world events, [[Satprem is especially thinking of East Bengal (Bangladesh)

August 7, 1971 (Mother's eye is swollen again.) Didn't A. give you something? No, Mother. (Mother tries to remember) My memory is completely gone. I have impressions, but no memory. Impressions that underlie everything -- that's probably what will replace memory. But I have a strong impression that A. had something to tell you.... (long silence) I have a curious impression of a kind of web -- a web with ... like very loose threads, I mean not tightly meshed, connecting all events, and if you have power over one of these webs, there's a whole field of circumstances that apparently have nothing to do with each other but which are linked together there in such a way th

February 24, 1971 (Satprem gives a white rose to Mother.) Oh, how beautiful! Page 49 How did the 21st go? I should ask you! (laughter) What about you, what do you say, how was the 21st? Well, personally I always feel the power so tremendously, you know. Oh, indeed, tremendous!... It ... it comes like this (massive gesture). It seems generally that people were very happy, so that's all that's needed. What do you (to Sujata) say? (Sujata looks at Mother with a lost look, Mother caresses her cheek and laughs) You see, it's like following the story of someone else with an interest which ... not even with great interest, not even curiosity.... I can't say th