MOTHER'S AGENDA

Vol. 12

Contents

  January 1, 1971
January 11, 1971
January 16, 1971
January 17, 1971
January 23, 1971
January 27, 1971
January 30, 1971

February 3, 1971
February 6, 1971
February 10, 1971
February 13, 1971
February 17, 1971
February 20, 1971
February 21, 1971
February 24, 1971
February 25, 1971
February 27, 1971

March 1, 1971
March 2, 1971
March 3, 1971
March 4, 1971
March 5, 1971
March 6, 1971
March 10, 1971
March 13, 1971
March 17, 1971
March 24, 1971
March 27, 1971
March 31, 1971

April 1, 1971
April 3, 1971
April 7, 1971
Undated
April 10, 1971
April 11, 1971
April 14, 1971
April 17, 1971
April 21, 1971
April 28, 1971
April 29, 1971

 

May 1, 1971
May 5, 1971
May 8, 1971
May 12, 1971
May 15, 1971
May 19, 1971
May 22, 1971
May 25, 1971
May 26, 1971
May 27, 1971
May 29, 1971
May 30, 1971

June 2, 1971
June 3, 1971
June 5, 1971
June 9, 1971
June 12, 1971
June 16, 1971
June 23, 1971
June 26, 1971
June 30, 1971

July 3, 1971
July 10, 1971
July 14, 1971
July 17, 1971
July 21, 1971
July 24, 1971
July 28, 1971
July 31, 1971

August 4, 1971
August 7, 1971
August 11, 1971
Undated
August 14, 1971
August 18, 1971
August 21, 1971
August 25, 1971
August 28, 1971

 

September 1, 1971
September 4, 1971
September 8, 1971
September 11, 1971
September 14, 1971
September 15, 1971
September 18, 1971
September 22, 1971
September 29, 1971


October 2, 1971
October 6, 1971
October 9, 1971
October 13, 1971
October 16, 1971
October 20, 1971
October 23, 1971
October 27, 1971
October 30, 1971


November 10, 1971
November 13, 1971
November 17, 1971
November 20, 1971
November 24, 1971
November 27, 1971


December 1, 1971
December 4, 1971
December 8, 1971
December 11, 1971
December 13, 1971
December 15, 1971
December 18, 1971
December 22, 1971
December 25, 1971
December 27, 1971
December 29, 1971
December 29, 1971


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ISBN 2-902776-33-0

May 8, 1971

How are you?

It's not easy!

What's the matter?

Well, EVERYTHING gives the impression of being like that. The

 feeling something is fiercely after the world, after people.

Yes.

 

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Something very fierce, which wants to destroy everything.

Everything seems topsy-turvy.

Yes.

What has happened up there [in Delhi]? I have no idea.... Indira only said....

Here, I'll give you an example: yesterday, from a quite reliable source, I was told that every country -- almost every foreign country -- has recognized Bangladesh and only India has not (and another one I don't remember). Today I am told that Indira said that no country has granted recognition. Well.... So you see, the lying is official.

Yes, it's official. But did you see...? I've just now seen Indira's

 statement in the newspapers:
"The Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi today set

 to rest all speculations about an early recognition

of Bangla Desh by indicating quite clearly that the

government of India did not propose to do so in

 the near future." (The Hindu, May 8, 1971)

Also I was told that Russia was the one opposed to recognition because she wanted to bring about a compromise with Pakistan. That's what I was told. But since everything is lies, one just doesn't know.

Yes. In any event, no country, not one has officially recognized

Bangladesh -- not a single one.

So what she said was true then!

Yes, and here [in "The Hindu"] they say:
"The Soviet Prime Minister, Mr. Kosygin, is

reliably reported to have sent two letters to Presi

dent Yahya Khan of Pakistan urging a negotiated

 settlement on East Bengal crisis, and to have asked

 Mrs. Indira Gandhi not to escalate the crisis so that

 the peaceful solution which both Russia and India

want may be achieved."

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In other words, they're seeking a compromise, like the last

time at Tashkent.

(Mother raises her arms) ... Everything has to be started all over again.

Yes, everything has to be started all over.

(silence)

But is it true, there was a rumor going around the Ashram

yesterday or the day before that you had sent a new message to

Indira Gandhi saying that if she did not recognize Bangladesh,

 there was no point in her asking your advice....

No, I didn't send the message.

But it may be that.... If U.[[A disciple who left for Delhi several days ago, on the 2nd. ]] sees her (I didn't ask him not to say anything to her), it may be that he'll tell her.... I said it to U. just like that.

Oh, I see!

So he may have got it into his head to tell her, I don't know.

And I heard also that you said that if she didn't recognize

 Bangladesh, there would be even more serious consequences in

 the future.

Yes, I think so.

You think so, yes.

It becomes more difficult each time.

Each time they put the thing off.... Oh, if only they had done it immediately, it would have been very good. Now, it's five weeks already....

Yes, five weeks.

It's already more difficult. If they put it off again, it will be even more difficult.

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But anyway, I didn't send any message. [[Mother wrote only a note that was published in one of the Ashram periodicals: "The situation is serious. It is only a strong and enlightened action that can pull the country out of it." (April 30, 1971) ]]

Naturally, she thinks I don't have all the facts -- but of course!

She knows better than you obviously! But really if she had the

 slightest inner discernment, she would understand that you

 have a wider vision of things.

Yes, but that....

You see, there are different ... (what shall I say?) they're like "layers of conditioning" (gesture of levels), and I always try to lead people to the highest layer so that things happen without too much difficulty; but they always insist on being on the lowest layer, the nearest one. So that causes.... That's how things get complicated. If those who are capable of pulling down from above at one stroke were there [in the government], things would go swiftly and smoothly, but it's those who have the nearest conditioning and naturally understand the nearest who are there -- those people are there [in the government]. And so things have to follow a certain (meandering gesture) path, and it's endless.

Well, that means the world is not ready!

(silence)

It will take another few hundred years.

Terrible....

(Mother raises her arms) Well, it will take a few hundred years.

Oh, but in that case, I'd prefer Kali!

(Mother laughs)

People don't understand. Things have to follow a comfortable little path. (Mother draws meandering paths in the air) That way, they understand.

Well.

(silence)

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You see, the faith of people is a superstition -- it's not faith, it's superstition. Now there are more and more people who think they have faith, and they ask me ridiculous things! They have superstitions like.... Someone brings me a child born with a deformed arm, and the superstition is that if I put my hand on the arm of the child, he'll be healed.... Things like that. It's completely stupid. That's not Power! They need a little miracle, you know, at their level.

Yes.

Humanity is still very small, very small, very small.

Yes, one feels that.

But even those who might have a power.... Look how it is: certain people could have a power, they would just have to have the true inspiration -- they're afraid of it, mon petit! They reject the true inspiration, because they think that things have to follow their "natural" course -- so-called natural.

Humanity rejects the true miracle. It only believes in....

So when I say I won't say anything anymore because they didn't listen to me, I look like someone who's upset, which is completely ridiculous, I really don't care! Personally there's nothing for or against or.... Only I SEE, I see that since the direct relation was not possible [the highest conditioning], naturally things are going to have to follow ... (sinuous gesture) every possible complication of the ordinary way.

While we are right in the midst of the true miracle!

So, if they say, "Mother is angry, she is leaving you," that's one more stupidity added to the already existing ones. That's all.

All that....

They have chosen, they have chosen the path of the turtle. So that's how it will be.

There are moments -- what Sri Aurobindo called The Hour of God -- there are moments when the true, the true miracle is possible; if that moment is missed, then the world will go ... at its turtle pace.

And it's hard -- a lot of suffering, a lot of complications.... But faith, who has faith? True faith.

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But you see, even those who are here attribute purely human feelings and reactions to me.... So....

But Mother, I'm hopeful.

Yes?

I have one hope. There is something I feel as a strong possibility,

 more and more so.

What?

All the youth, those who are 16, 17 or 20 now, who seem to be

 going completely mad, well, in reality, all those young people

 NO LONGER WANT the present Machinery -- they don't want it

 anymore. So they do foolish things....

Oh!...

They take drugs, they do all sorts of foolish things.

Oh, even worse than that, mon petit! They've become murderers. [[Mother is probably alluding to the Naxalites of Calcutta. ]]

Yes, there are all sorts of things, but in spite of everything, I

 feel it's a good sign, that the movement is going to increase

 more and more and that the whole Machinery of the men of

 yesterday is going to collapse -- the social and political

machinery and all the rest....

(silence)

For instance, I see many of those so-called hippies, you know,

 those wanderers, those young people who have turned their

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 backs on society, who do all sorts of foolish things; well,

 several times I took one aside and simply spoke to him the

 language of Truth, and he understood at once! He had simply never been told anything.

Oh!...

All those people have never been told the true thing. And I

 have the feeling that all the so-called lost youth isn't lost at all!

 It needs only to receive the true word.

Yes, but who's going to give it to them?

Well, I don't know, Mother. If I had the power, I would do it

 willingly. But the miracle is still possible with these people.

Yes. Yes, but ... there has to be someone to say it.

Yes, there should be a Vivekananda for Sri Aurobindo.

(Mother laughs, very amused)

And their reversal could be effected swiftly and easily, I'm

 sure. You see, they're not perverted, they're simply ... they

 don't know.

(silence)

That's what you should call for, Mother: a great inspired man.

Ah!

That's what you should call for.

But I've been calling him for a long time.

Yes, Mother, a great inspired man with physical strength.

Yes, oh, yes!

It has to be someone physically solid.

Oh, yes!

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(Mother looks,
then goes within for a long time)

All the time, day and night, like this (Mother holds her clenched fists in front of her as though pulling or calling the Force).

(silence)

It is a world event. It is not the event of one country [Bangladesh], it is a world event. And that's why....

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