March 10, 1973 What do we do about the Bulletin, Mother ... the "Notes onthe Way"? Do you have something? Almost nothing, just two small pieces. Go ahead, read them. (Satprem reads) Is that all? ... Yes [laughter].... Obviously, you don't feel like talkinganymore. No. I can't talk, it doesn't come out clearly. But that's not true! It does! It comes out very well. If you have a question, we can try. I don't know, whenever I try to come into contact with thatConsciousness, I always sense a sort of luminous immensity, as you say.... Yes. But I feel it's stationary, you see; I am in it and could stay in itforever, but.... Exactly. That's my

December 2, 1972 (Mother has just spent an hour and fifteen minutes eating her "breakfast.") Do you have something? No, nothing in particular, Mother. Then I'll give you only ten minutes. Something strange is happening which I don't understand - and it's getting stronger and stronger: it took me more than an hour to eat my breakfast, yet when I started I told myself: I must finish this in twenty minutes. And I really thought I had finished in twenty minutes ! Time ... I have completely lost the sense of time. I was convinced I had finished in twenty minutes and it took me more than an hour - to eat nothing! I take a bite or a sip, and then ten minutes, twenty minut

July 26, 1972 (In an attempt to bring the book distribution in line, Mother, on Satprem's suggestion, asked a young teacher from the school to be in charge of the copyright department. Mother first speaks of this young teacher.) He's discovering skeletons! Poor M. [All India Press director], he was so upset! Naturally, for he isn't the real culprit in all this, you know, it's the other one behind, SABDA. Oh, that's.... And that's why he is hurt - because he's more receptive. Theother one is penned up in his falsehood... The other one is a NO! (Mother makes the gesture of something compact.) Anyway.... *** (Mother looks for something near her.)

March 19, 1972 (A note by Mother) The truth, which man has vainly sought toknow, will be the privilege of the new race, the race of tomorrow, the superman. To live according to the Truth will be hisprivilege. Let us do our best to help prepare the advent ofthe New Being. The mind must fall silent and be replaced by the Truth-Consciousness - the consciousness of details integrated with the consciousness of the whole. Page 94

April 11, 1973 (Mother looks for Sujata.) Is she here? (Sujata:) Yes, Mother! (To Satprem:) How are you? Quite well, Mother.... Mother, you have to give us a message for the Darshan [of April 24]. (after a silence) This is what comes to me: Beyond man's consciousness Beyond speech O thee, Supreme Consciousness Unique Reality Immutable Truth... (Mother hesitates and corrects herself) Divine Truth. [[This is Mother's last message. ]] (Mother plunges in) Page 398

February 1, 1972 (Notes from Mother) Auroville is intended to hasten the advent of the supramental reality upon earth. The help of all those who find that the world is not what it ought to be is welcome. Each one must know if he wants to associate himself with an old world on the verge of death, or to work for a new and better world ready to be born. *** The first thing the physical consciousness must realize is that all the difficulties we encounter in life arise from the fact that we do not rely exclusively on the Divine to find the help we need. The Divine alone can liberate us from the mechanism of universal Nature. And this liberation is indispensable for the bir

March 25, 1972 Did you receive the last answers to T.J. [the "Notes"]? I think there were one or two, I don't quite remember. The last one I received is this one: The truth, which man has vainly sought to know,will be the privilege of the new race, the race of tomorrow, the superman.... Is that all ? ... See if there is something you can use.... Yes, certainly there is! [[This "Note" is the last one Satprem ever received from the disciple to whom Mother was sending her answers. A strange wind seemed to be blowing over those who were connected with the work Mother was doing with Satprem; though not acting in collusion, they all seemed bent on obstructing that work, as

June 17, 1972 (Mother gives Sujata and Satprem a garland of "Patience') One needs a lot, a lot, a whole lot of it. Yes! The signs are increasingly clear, but what PATIENCE one needs! Page 209 The slightest wrong movement immediately provokes a dreadful discomfort. The merest trifle. Life is tolerable only like this (Mother opens her hands upwards). The body - the body itself - feels like a little baby cradled in the arms of the Lord. But if it leaves this attitude only for a few seconds, it feels it's like death - instant dissolution. That's how it is. The shortest hours are at night, from 8:30 at night till 6 in the morning - I don't sleep, but ... (immense, sile

March 18, 1972 (No sooner has Satprem entered her room than Mother looks at him and declares categorically:) Things are better - aren't they? For me or for.... Yes, for you. Page 92 Well, I think so, I hope so. Yes, but I am telling you: things ARE better - I know! (Mother laughs) It's cleared up. It was pretty tough. (Mother signs the contract for the publication of the "Synthesis" in France - silence) Do you feel that things are also better in general, or ... Yes. ... or is it specific? Things are better. A dawning of joy in the body.... It's coming, it's coming. You remember, I told you everything was like this (gesture on the brink

April 7, 1973 (The last few days, Mother saw very few people. She remained absorbed within. The previous meeting, on April 4, was spent in complete silence. Mother gives me flowers, holds my hand in hers and remains silent for a while. She is so white ...) I seem to be gathering all the world's resistances.... They come to me one after another, and if I weren't.... If I stop calling the Divine for a single minute, intimately feeling his presence within me, the pain is unbearable, mon petit! To such a point that I now hesitate to speak of "transformation" to people, because if that's what it is, one really has to be a hero.... You see, there's something in the body that would a