August 4, 1971

(Mother makes several unsuccessful attempts to record her

 message in English for "All India Radio" for August 15,

 the beginning of Sri Aurobindo's Centenary year.)

Today is the first day of Sri Aurobindo's centenary year. Though he has left his body he is still with us, alive and active.
Sri Aurobindo belongs to the future; he is the messenger of the future. He still shows us the way to follow in order to hasten the realisation of a glorious future fashioned by the Divine Will.
All those who want to collaborate for the progress of humanity and for India's luminous destiny must unite in a clairvoyant aspiration and in an illumined work.

(Mother gives up,
Satprem makes the recording in her place)

I am deep in transformation, that's why I've lost control. What I could do before I can't do anymore. I see, I clearly see the direction it will take, but it's not there yet. So now I am good-for-nothing.

My voice is completely ruined.

It's interesting only from a documentary standpoint [the present conditions], because when this experience ends, and the supermind really starts coming, things will change and it will have a mere historical value.

It's the most unpleasant moment.... The Power is here, you see, but the means of expressing it have not yet been created.

(silence)

The old control is slipping away. It's quite irksome for me -- especially for eating, for instance, it's very hard to swallow, to ... oh!

The body has simply a kind of ... perception -- a distant perception -- of what the true supramental control will be, but it's only

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like this (gesture into the distance), almost like a promise, nothing more.

Truly a transition between two worlds.

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