January 26, 1972 What's new? Nothing. Nothing to say. How are you? I don't know. (silence) The doctor who took care of my leg and had gone to Delhi has returned. He looked at my leg today and said it was a miracle the way it healed. It's almost all better - not completely, but almost. (silence) Page 44 What I told you is continuing-but it's continuing with an improvement. I mean, it's taking a turn for the better. But speaking is still difficult - speaking and eating are the two most difficult things. Page 45

March 19, 1973 (A note from Mother) Here we have no religion. We replace religion with spiritual life, which is truer and both deeper and higher, that is to say, closer to the Divine. For the Divine is in all things, but we are not conscious of it. This is the immense progress that men must make. Page 379

April 2, 1972 (Meeting with Auroville's architect, N. and U. - N. is the Secretary of the Sri Aurobindo Society and U., his rival, the Secretary of Sri Aurobindo's Action. The architect gives Mother a flower.) What is it? I think it's "Supramental Clarity" or Vibration. (Mother speaks in English) I will tell you that we are preaching unity - unity of humanity - Page 124 and we are all quarreling - horrible quarrels, resentments and all sorts of urgings that we condemn in the others. We are giving a nice example, and people laugh! Voila. It has come to me from many quarters. Begin with yourself, they say, and they are right. Each one, all of

January 13, 1973 (Mother receives Satprem and Sujata fifty-five minutes late.) Nothing to be said.... It's chaos! The Supermind has obviously nothing in common with our regular time. (silence) I feel I am being pulled in opposite directions by the old world and the new.... (Mother shakes her head and plunges in) Page 348

December 26, 1972 (Mother sees some teachers from the school. Towards the end of the meeting, Pranab enters Mother's room in his customary manner, heads straight for Mother, and launches into a violent diatribe against some French television reporters - whom Mother had received the day before - because they filmed Sri Aurobindo's tomb "in spite of his orders." Mother tries to calm him down.) When they [the reporters] cannot get something from one person, they go to somebody else - and it works. In any event, I won't see them anymore. (Pranab explodes:) If I meet them again, I'll smash their cameras. I don't want any violence or nasty scenes here. (Pranab r

October 14, 1972 So the 30th is your birthday? Well, yes! What's your birthday wish? Liberation. Good. How old will you be? Forty-nine. Page 296 Baah! ... (as if to say: still a child) (Mother plunges in, then she "looks") Did you see something in me? I find you are going well. There was Peace, a luminous Peace (enveloping gesture). I find you are going well. All is going well, it's good. Page 297

August 19, 1972 (Mother looks very pale. She has just seen 175 people.) What do you have to say? And you, Mother? Would you say something? I've just seen over a hundred people. Yes, you're a bit tired. Not tired, it's ... dazed, you know. Page 271 I am not saying anything. But if you have something to ask? You should rest a little, Mother. I'll rest. But go on and ask me if you have something. I have a feeling I am not making the right movement inwardly.I'm not going at it the right way. Ah! ... You're too active. If you could simply.... More and more I feel that unless one does this (Mother opens her hands upwards in a gesture of surrender), and lea

September 20, 1972 (Satprem's eyes are still in poor condition.) So, what about your eyes? And you, how are you? Me ... the consciousness is progressing. (Satprem rests his head on Mother's knees. She puts her left hand over his right eye.) If you could stop everything for ten days ... don't use your eyes to read or write - not look at anything, just use your eyes to see what's indispensable, to eat or move about. I don't know, there's a kind of automatic vision that isn't tiring. It's when you "look" at something that it tires you. I wish you had ten whole days of that automatic vision. You are now my eyes for the work, you understand, so you must keep them in

April 6, 1972 (Mother sees Sujata) I don't want to speak anymore. Yesterday, I told Satprem what I had to say. (silence) Page 147 Some people come and deluge me with their problems; others come and say nothing; in both cases, I am silent. I don't care what they say, even that I've become stupid, I don't care in the least. Oh, no!... People who can say such things are only showing their own colors. Yes. That's their own business, I have nothing to do with it. Up above, in the consciousness, I am with those who are there. And that's that. (Mother clasps Sujata's hands and sits gazing) Yes, this is good, this is good. You know I am with you! Do you know that?

February 12, 1972 I have a letter from P.L. [the friend in the Vatican]. Here's whathe says: "... Thanks to Mother's Protection, things around mehad calmed down a little, when suddenly the storm broke out again. To the former intrigues have now been added slander and ... a threat of expulsion (which in itself I would not mind, but they should not triumph!). This threat is in fact meant to upset me and force me to change my attitude. I feel the need to go back and see Mother - the sooner the better. But practically I cannot do it; furthermore, I am being watched; I am afraid that if they find out I am going to Pondicherry, they will try to set the Bishop agai