November 18, 1972 I wish I could disappear to do the work better. (Mother remains within the whole time) You'll be better over there [at Nandanam]. Page 311

February 14, 1973 (Regarding the poor translation of Sri Aurobindo's texts in the "Auroville Gazette." Mother had asked Satprem to check a few issues and try to rectify the situation with the collaboration of his friend Luc in Auroville. This triggered off reactions which were unmistakably ... sharp.) ... But, Mother, I've seen it: all the translators, whether Page 363 French, English, German or whatever, have a translator's COLOSSAL ego; the minute you touch their translation, it's as if you were ripping their little selves apart. Whether it's Y, T., CS. or any of the people I have dealt with, translators are simply not-to-be-touched This is the truth.

November 8, 1972 For a moment - just a few seconds - I had the supramental consciousness. It was so marvelous, mon petit! ... I understood that if we were to taste that now, we would no longer want to exist differently. We are in the process of ... (gesture of kneading dough) of changing laboriously. And the change, the process of Page 308 change seems.... Yet you can grasp it in a kind of indifference (I don't know how to express it). But it doesn't last long. As a rule it's ... laborious. But that consciousness is so marvelous, you know! It's most interesting because there's a sort of EXTREME activity within complete peace. But it lasted only a few seconds. (silence

April 26, 1972 (Mother hands Satprem a letter:) This is what I sent to Indira. You can read it to me, I don't even remember what I put. Page 162 "India shall take her true place in the world only when she will become integrally the messenger of the Divine Life." [[Original English. ]] What was the occasion? She wrote me a very nice letter to express her gratitude, and she asked if I had something to tell her, so that's what I replied. It seems she speaks in earnest about India's spiritual mission. She's worried about America. She wants to send people to America to try to create a harmonious atmosphere. We shall see. But isn't the danger rather from the

June 23, 1972 (Mother gives Sujata the manuscript of a note she wrote for Auroville.) "Jesus is one of the many forms the Divine hasassumed to come in contact with the earth. But there are and will be many others. Auroville's children must replace the exclusivism of one religion by the vast faith of Knowledge." Page 211

March 17, 1972 (A note by Mother) To prepare for immortality, the consciousnessof the body must first become one with the Eternal Consciousness. Page 92

July 5, 1972 I barely eat anymore. I don't know ... I can't swallow. But isn't energy penetrating the body? I don't know. I don't feel weak. But I don't "feel" energy penetrating the body. (silence) I don't know.... You don't have anything to ask? If only one could open EVERY SINGLE part of the being to yourLight - is it possible? Of course it's possible! (Mother plunges in) Page 220

November 15, 1972 (Mother seems very impersonal and far away.) So? I have a feeling I sometimes see you at night. (Mother nods: yes, yes) And you, the work, Mother? Page 310 What? Your work? "My" work.... Poetically, I could say: a few seconds in heaven and ... hours in hell. It's better not to speak about it. (Mother moans while in trance) Page 311

M o t h e r's   A g e n d a   1972-04-02 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.

August 16, 1972 (Today is the day after Sri Aurobindo's centenary. Hordes of people line up in Mother's corridors.) This morning I am seeing two hundred people ... two hundred! How was it yesterday? I'd rather not say anything because.... According to what I had heard before, [[Conversation of August 2 (the two rival "formations"). ]] according to that, it was a big victory. But nothing was visible. I didn't say anything to anybody. Even so, several people felt it was the beginning of something. It's a long story.... Some adverse forces had banded together and decided that I was going to die yesterday. And it was true, it happened, there was an attack. In that sense a