February 24, 1971
(Satprem gives a white rose to Mother.)
Oh, how beautiful!
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How did the 21st go?
I should ask you! (laughter) What about you, what do you say, how was the 21st?
Well, personally I always feel the power so tremendously, you know.
Oh, indeed, tremendous!… It … it comes like this (massive gesture).
It seems generally that people were very happy, so that’s all that’s needed.
What do you (to Sujata) say?
(Sujata looks at Mother with a lost look,
Mother caresses her cheek and laughs)
You see, it’s like following the story of someone else with an interest which … not even with great interest, not even curiosity…. I can’t say there’s a sense of duty, I don’t know what it is — it’s a need and that’s all.
The body has once and for all taken the attitude of not thinking of itself because … it would be deeply disgusted.
But I must say there are days when I hear very well, days when I see very clearly, days when I hear nothing, days when I see nothing. So … it’s like this (gesture of fluctuation).
It’s decentralized (I don’t know how to say it), completely decentralized. So, if I look — if I LOOKED — with the old consciousness, it would be rather … rather unpleasant, you can say, but the old consciousness: gone. It’s something … something that isn’t an individual consciousness, but it is not just a collective consciousness either: there’s “something” up there — THAT, up there — which sees, knows, decides…. That, up there, is quite all right, it hasn’t moved — it hasn’t moved. But this…. (Mother points to her body)
There was some apprehension for the 21st about going out on the balcony,
[[Mother walked out on the balcony without help, after having practiced every day. ]] the feeling that it would be very difficult — it wasn’t very difficult, it was neutral, neither easy nor difficult…. The values are not the same.
That’s all.
Oh, I would rather hear your chapter.
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Here is my pension, Mother.
You don’t need anything?
No, no, Mother! You give me everything I need.
Really?…
(To Sujata:) Tell me if it’s true that he doesn’t need anything.
No, Mother, he doesn’t need anything!
(Reading of the end of Supermanhood,
Chapter 16, “The Season of Truth.”)
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