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The
Great Secret
Six Monologues and a Conclusion
by
The Mother
in collaboration with
NOLINI (The Writer)
PAVITRA (The Scientist)
ANDRE (The Industrialist)
PRANAB (The Athlete)
LETTER
OF THE MOTHER CONCERNING
THE GREAT
SECRET
My dear Andre,
I know that you are a very
busy man and that you do not have much time to spare. However, I am going to
ask you to do something for me and I hope that it will be possible for you to
do it.
The thing is this.
For the first of December I
am preparing something which does not fall into any category of dramatic art
and which certainly cannot be called a play, but, n
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PART THREE
DRAMAS
TOWARDS
THE FUTURE
A one-act play in prose that can be staged in any country, with
small changes in the details of the presentation which local custom may
require.
PERSONS OF
THE DRAMA
SHE
THE POET
THE CLAIRVOYANT
THE PAINTER
THE SCHOOLFRIEND
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Towards
the Future
As the curtain rises, She and the School friend
are sit-
ting side by
side on the sofa.
SHE
How nice of you to come and
see me after such a long time...I thought you had forgotten me.
SCHOOLFRIEND
Certainly not. But I had lost trace of you and did not know where
to find you. And now that I h
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Correspondence
(a)
Why are no diplomas and certificates given to the
students of the
Centre of Education?
For the last hundred years or so mankind has been suffering from a
disease which seems to be spreading more and more and which has reached a
climax in our times; it is what we may call “utilitarianism”. People and
things, circumstances and activities seem to be viewed and appreciated
exclusively from this angle. Nothing has any value unless it is useful.
Certainly something that is useful – is better than something that is not. But
first we must agree on what we describe as useful, useful to whom, to what, for
what?
For, more and more, the races who consider
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Replies to Prayers of the
Physical Education Groups1
GROUP A
Sweet Mother, for us Thou hast kept the path
free
from
all dangers and difficulties, the path that surely
leads
to the goal; and when the final victory will be
won,
it will reach out to infinity.
Mother, keep us always green, so that we
may ad-
vance without stop on the road Thou hast
with such
labour prepared for us.
My little ones, you are the hope, you are the future. Keep always
this youth which is the faculty to progress; for you the phrase “it is
impossible” will have no meaning.
22 April 1949
*
GROUP B
Sweet Mother, we want to be Thy faithful soldie
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National
Education
Our aim is not a national system of education for India, but an education for the world at large.
Sublime Mother,
Our aim is no exclusive national system of
edu-
cation for India but an essential and fundamental edu-
cation for all mankind. But,
is it not true, Mother,
that this education, because of India's special fitness
(by virtue of its past cultural striving and
attainment),
is India's privilege and special responsibility towards
herself and the
world? At any rate, this essential edu-
cation is India's national education to my mind. In
fact, I regard this as the
national education of each
great country with
A Dream
There should be somewhere
on earth a place which no nation could claim as its own, where all human beings
of goodwill who have a sincere aspiration could live freely as citizens of the
world and obey one single authority, that of the supreme truth; a place of
peace, concord and harmony where all the fighting instincts of man would be
used exclusively to conquer the causes of his sufferings and miseries, to
surmount his weaknesses and ignorance, to triumph over his limitations and
incapacities; a place where the needs of the spirit and the concern for
progress would take precedence over the satisfaction of desires and passions,
the search for pleasure
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VI
ANSWERS
TO A MONITOR
Here our activities are so varied that it
is difficult to
stick to one thing and perfect it.
Perhaps that is the
reason why we are not able to go
beyond a mediocre
average. Or is it because of our lack of
solid concen-
tration?
The cause of mediocre work is neither the variety nor the number
of activities, but lack of the power of concentration.
One must learn to
concentrate and do everything with full concentration.
4 July 1961
*
It really is a problem to know how to create interest
in the students, whether in games, athletics or gymna-
stics. Even our enthus
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which aim to teach: books on philosophy, art, the sciences, etc.
There should be very few novels (the students read only too many
novels), and no modern novels, unless they are of particularly good quality.
Literature has its place in the “Bibliothèque Choisie”, so that
the students can learn what literature is.
The most important thing to be taken into consideration when
selecting books, is the quality of the language and style,1 something
“splendid” as in Flaubert. No translations, or very few, and only if they are
of famous works one cannot say “masterpieces” because there are so few of them!2
(
Our Flag and Our Cover
The flag that is shown on the cover of our Bulletin represents the symbol of a
full-blown golden lotus with two rows of petals, four inside and twelve
outside, at the exact centre of a silver-blue square.
This blue is the blue of the spirit and the gold is the colour of
the Supreme Mother. The red of the cover surrounding the flag signifies the
illumined physical consciousness.
This flag was originally chosen as the flag of the J.S.A.S.A.;1
but later, when we celebrated India's Independence Day (15 August 1947), we found that it also expressed the spiritual mission of the
whole of India. So for us it is the symbolic flag of a resurgent, united and
victo
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To the Students, Young and Old
There
are, in the history of the earth, moments of transition when things that have
existed for thousands of years must give way to those that are about to
manifest. A special concentration of the world consciousness, one might almost
say, an intensification of its effort, occurs at such times, varying according
to the kind of progress to be made, the quality of the transformation to be
realised. We are at precisely such a turning-point in the world's history. Just
as Nature has already created upon earth a mental being, man, so too there is
now a concentrated activity in this mentality to bring forth a supramental
consciousnes