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(Mother coughs, her voice is quite hoarse.)
I'm not well. Impossible to speak.
Have you received the Aphorisms?
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324 - "Freedom, equality, brotherhood," cried the
French revolutionists, but in truth freedom only has
been practised with a dose of equality; as for brother
hood, only a brotherhood of Cain was founded - and of
Barabbas. Sometimes it calls itself a Trust or Combine
and sometimes the Concert of Europe.
325 - "Since liberty has failed," cries the advanced
thought of Europe, "let us try liberty cum equality or,
since the two are a little hard to pair, equality instead
of liberty. For brotherhood, it is impossible; therefore
we will replace it by industrial association." But this
time also, I think. God will not be deceived.
(Satprem reads out Mother's answer)
"For the moment still, liberty, equality, fraternity are
nothing but words loudly proclaimed but never put
into practice yet. They cannot be, so long as men
remain as they are, governed by their ego and all its
desires instead of being governed solely by the One
Supreme and supremely Divine."
And I added:
"Liberty cannot be manifested until all men know the
freedom of the Supreme Lord.
"Equality cannot be manifested until all men are
conscious of the Supreme Lord.
"Fraternity cannot be manifested until all men feel
equally issued from the Supreme Lord and 'one' in
His Unity"
It appears impossible to humanity, but it will probably be possible for the new species.
Another thing ... (Mother holds out another note). I can't see clearly.... It was a young girl who was terribly troubled by other's opinions, so I answered her:
"The Supreme Lord's opinion
alone matters. "The Supreme Lord alone
deserves all our love
and gives it back a hundredfold."
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(silence)
I'm not well (Mother holds her head in her hands). My head, never in my life has it been like this. I hear noise inside and ...
It began this morning, it was full of something which ... I don't know what it is. And people are pressing and pressing and pressing - how many! I've never seen so many.... Yesterday morning I was almost cured, I thought it was over, and then I saw people till half past twelve. So after that ...
Do you have anything?... Then I won't speak.
(long meditation)
I'll see you on Saturday, I hope it will be over.
My head has never been in such a state.... The consciousness is very clear, very clear.... Strange.... My head feels as if it's this big (gesture), as if it had become huge.
(silence)
One [French] embassy attaché came, dined at the Consulate with R. and F. and Baron [former governor of Pondicherry]; it was his daughter who came at Auroville's inauguration to put soil from France. So he asked all sorts of questions and was very interested. ... A new ambassador is coming, he is hoped to be better.... [[An ongoing hope. ]] The previous one was quite anti-Ashram. But the new one is hoped to be better, this attaché came for the new ambassador.
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