March 24, 1973 Good morning! ... Do you eat caviar? Caviar! It is a very good food.... I'm sure! I used to eat it, but now I can't.... Not so long ago I used to eat it, but it made my eyes swell. [[All salted food, the doctor said. ]] So I've stopped. How long since you last ate caviar? Oh, at least ... thirty years! (Mother laughs) Try some, and see what you think. Right, I will see! (silence) I brought you a flower from the garden: "Surrender of Falsehood." [[Double red laurel flower. ]] Oh! ... (Mother immediately takes the flower and puts it on her forehead, where she holds it a long time, silently) I take it in the largest and most profound

October 7, 1972 And your eyes? I can't stop the work; everything is programmed I'm notworried ... (Satprem reads to Mother some passages from the conversation of August 30 for the next "Notes On the Way.") That's all ? Will it do, Mother? ... I've cut quite a few things out, but do you think what's left is all right? It's very personal. I've cut a lot already; but, you see, if you remove all thepersonal parts, nothing much remains.... (Laughing) Nothing at all remains! For instance, when I answer your question about whether I still use the thinking process, I don't consider myself a "person," I'm simply a human "representative" whose answe

August 30, 1972 How are you? I think I'm well. Well, so am I! (laughter) (silence) Page 273 I can clearly see that instead of thought governing life, it's consciousness. And when the consciousness remains quietly open to the Divine, all goes well. A lot of things constantly come into the consciousness, from the whole world, it would seem (gesture of being assailed from all sides): all the things that negate or oppose the divine Action. They keep coming all the time like this (same gesture). But if I can remain quiet (gesture of offering, hands open), in an attitude of ... (smiling) nonexistence, a sort of ... I don't know if it's transparency - I don't know if one should

January 10, 1973 Good morning, Mother! (Mother hands a basket to Satprem) This is mouthwash! And these are eggs. Now what do you have to tell me? Me, nothing. Nothing? No, it's difficult. A difficult period ... For me too. Yes. (silence) So ... Where does that come from? ... we can go in the silence if you like? Yes, Mother, certainly! But I was asking where it comes from. (after a silence) In my own case, I know: it's because everything that needs to be transformed is rising from the subconscient, and it's in-ter-mi-nable.... It keeps rising and rising and rising.... And with each little thing looms the possibility of catastrophe. So you

February 22, 1972 A Note from Mother (The day before was Mother's ninety-fourth birthday.) All day long on the 21st I had a strong feelingthat it was everybody's birthday, and I felt an urge to say "happy birthday" to everyone. A very strong impression that something new was manifesting in the world, and that all those who were ready and receptive could incarnate it. In a few days, probably, we will know what it was. Page 69

August 26, 1972 Soup! (laughing) A rare thing nowadays (laughter). (Mother hands Satprem a packet of soup and some flowers) How are you? Quite well, quite well! Not too harassed? Ohh, it's frightful ... 150 to 200 people every day - 200 people every day. Page 272 The only days when it's less are your days. Oh, is it! (Mother sits gazing for a long time) Nothing to ask? What do you see, Mother? (after a silence) I feel like saying (smiling): nothing! Nothing, I see nothing.... There's no longer "something that sees," but I Am, I am a myriad things. I live a myriad things. There are so, so many - so many - that it's like nothing! ... I don

February 8, 1972 (A message from Mother to some Aurovilians) From a spiritual point of view, India is theforemost country in the world. Its mission is to give the example of spirituality. Sri Aurobindo came on earth to teach this to the world. This fact is so obvious, that even a simple,ignorant farmer here is in his heart closer to the Divine than all the intellectuals of Europe. All those who want to become Aurovilians mustknow that and behave accordingly, otherwise they are unworthy of being Aurovilians. *** (Another note) In the beginnings of humanity, the ego was the unifying element. It is around the ego that the various states of being were fo

February 21, 1973 Mother is ninety-five. Page 368

January 20, 1973 (On January 18, Mother received the Dalai Lama. It should be noted that Mother had long ago admitted a number of Tibetan refugees to the Ashram and Auroville.) Anything to say? I'd be curious to know what you felt with the Dalai Lama? A truly benevolent man. Buddhist benevolence, you know, and he practices it marvelously. He seems to have no ... no selfishness in him (there's no word for it in French). I mean, a constant concern to do the right thing. (silence) Very active [mentally] - there wasn't much of a deeper contact. That's all. He was happy with his visit, I was told. Did you hear that too? Yes, I heard he was happy. Didn't you se

M o t h e r's   A g e n d a   1973-05-15 May 15, 1973 KRISHNA IN GOLD (A vision of Sujata's on the afternoon of May 15) (original English) A place similar to the Playground. A few people, here and there,  are talking or going about. I am standing somewhere in the middle of the ground, in front of  Mother's door. From the main gate enters a vehicle - half-cart half-cab - drawn  by two bullocks. It comes to a stop a few feet away from me. The driver makes the bullocks kneel down. Out steps a gentleman. The  cart is driven away. The gentleman is dressed in white, Indian-fashion (dhoti, punjabi). He is round-faced and fair-skinned. Reminds me of a Zamindar  [landlord] fr