March 27, 1968

On April 1st, the sports season opens, and I've given an ... appropriate message.

I started with a paradox:

"The first condition for acquiring power is to be

 obedient.

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"The body must learn to obey before it can manifest

power; and physical education is the most thorough

 discipline for the body.

"So be eager and sincere in your effort for physical

education and you will acquire a powerful body."

It's logical. That's all.

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Soon afterwards

Everybody is quarreling.... Oh, quarrels about absolutely nothing - everybody gets angry, everybody quarrels. It's been like that for the past three days. Astrologers say it depends on the "position of the stars" - but I don't believe in that! I believe the position of the stars is merely ... (how should I put it?) the celestial notation of terrestrial events (!) It's not that the stars condition [events]: they are the expression.

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(Then Mother goes into a long contemplation which will last

 almost till the end. At one point, she opens her eyes and looks

 at Satprem as though something were

 taking place or she were about to say something....)

Nothing to ask?

I felt there was something.

What?

I don't know.

I was in fact going to ask you.... I had that same feeling - for you. Something new. No? Haven't you had a new experience?

I felt something.

Yes, but I felt it very strongly! I was about to ask you [when Mother opened her eyes], then instead of asking you I tried to see,

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 but I didn't see anything! (Mother laughs) There is a very different quality of vibration, a sort of ... Is it twelve?... Are we alone?

Yes.

The feeling of a very peaceful conscious force, but very strong, which has established itself in you, which has come down - something new. Did you feel it?

It took a mental expression a few days ago.

Oh ... (in a disappointed tone) What was it?

The impression that all realizations on the heights and all the

 horrible hells one may live - in the Fire, they are all ONE. In the

 Flame, they are ONE. Up above, it all gets dissolved; down

 below, it all gets dissolved; and in the Flame, it's ONE, there are

 no opposites anymore.

For me, it [what Mother felt in Satprem] was expressed through a sort of very strong, very luminous balance, and ... oh, with an extraordinary peace. You understand, something which has established itself (gesture of a solid square). I could express it with the word "realization." Peaceful, strong, luminous - very solid. We'll see.

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