The Mother

Agenda

Volume 10

April 12, 1969

(Mother first reads a few fragments from “Savitri” which are to be set to music.)

In Matter shall be lit the spirit's glow...

A few shall see what none yet understands;

God shall grow up while the wise men talk and sleep;

For man shall not know the coming till its hour

And belief shall be not till the work is done.

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This transfiguration is earth's due to heaven:

A mutual debt binds man to the Supreme:

His nature we must put on as he put ours;

We are sons of God and must be even as he:

His human portion, we must grow divine.

Our life is a paradox with God for key.

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But none learns whither through the unknown he sails

Or what secret mission the great Mother gave.

In the hidden strength of her omnipotent Will,

Driven by her breath across life's tossing deep,

Through the thunder's roar and through the windless hush,

Through fog and mist where nothing more is seen,

He carries her scaled orders in his breast.

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A power is on him from her occult force

That ties him to his own creation's fate,

And never can the mighty traveller rest

And never can the mystic voyage cease,

Till the nescient dusk is lifted from man's soul

And the morns of God have overtaken his night.

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This constant will she covered with her sport,

To evoke a person in the impersonal Void,

With the Truth-Light strike earth's massive roots of trance,

Wake a dumb self in the inconscient depths

And raise a lost power from its python sleep

That the eyes of the Timeless might look out from Time

And the world manifest the unveiled Divine.

For this he left his white infinity

And laid on the Spirit the burden of the flesh,

That Godhead's seed might flower in mindless Space.

Savitri, I.IV.55-73

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Soon afterwards

If you are interested, little K. [aged nine and a half], J.s son,¹ has had a dream .... Would you like me to read it to you? It's about the Pope!

Really!

It's rather odd, because the child isn't aware of anything. He has had a dream which his mother has noted down:

“We go and see the Pope. There are lots of people. Mama puts me second in line, and we draw near the Pope. He gives Mama a few hosts in a handkerchief then asks his servant to bring a multicolored alb similar to his, and I see on the Pope's chest Mother's symbol, and at the back a Greek cross (with two equal sides). The servant brings the alb, which the Pope puts on me. Everyone has left. I hear P.L.s voice, but only see a little friend of the Ashram. We go back home, and as we are about to enter, the Pope's two servants arrive. I think, ‘Now that I am going to be the Pope in turn, I must be very careful; my entourage and everyone I meet is important. These men may have come to harm me out of jealousy.’ Mama opens the door and I see a servant of the Pope already in the room. I go in, caress my dog, and wake up.”

(After a long silence) Are you sure he hasn't heard of anything?

He isn't aware of anything at all, this boy.

It's strange.

Do you know if he has ever seen the Pope?

I don't know. I don't think so.²

You don't think so ....

It's interesting.

This little one has a destiny, but it's for years later... What will take place until then, I don't know.

(long silence)

This Consciousness is at present showing this body, making it... not understand, but feel (Mother feels the air)... it's neither feel nor understand, it's becoming conscious of the vibrations that belong (how could I put it?) to destruction, I might say, the vibrations that belong to the process of destruction in the world, and the vibrations that belong to the process of progress without destruction.

Those experiences last for several hours every day, and they make you feel the two sides like that, with a clear distinction, very clear, in what people do, in what they say, in the relationship with events, and also the different states of consciousness (everything takes place in the consciousness, of course, it's not at all -a thought, it's not formulated, I don't know how to explain). And this Consciousness also teaches action in silence – at a distance as well as in the presence. All kinds of things, it's constantly, constantly teaching one thing or another. And not formulated: there are no formulas, it's not thoughts, but states of consciousness. And the relationship between the various states of consciousness: how they dovetail with one another, how they mix with one another, how they can be separated, how... It can't be explained: it can be lived (the body is being taught how to live), but it can't be explained. For everything – everything, all activities.

As soon as you try to formulate it, there comes in that mental element. It's no longer that.

Very, very active. A constant activity of demonstration, of teaching – in action, in life (not mental, not in thought). And as soon as speech, for instance, comes, it takes away the truth of the thing, I don't know... It turns it into literature, as it were.

One can't say anything.

(silence)

Regarding that relationship with the Christian world (we'll know, but...), there is now an impression that they want to use this Knowledge. Instead of rejecting it, they have chosen to use it.

It's better – better that way.

(long silence)

Oh, this morning it was so interesting, so interesting! The difference between the vibrations that bring about progress without necessitating dissolution, and the vibrations that belong to the old method of dissolution. And constantly, constantly, for each and every thing – constantly. And how they dovetail, how they can be separated... quite interesting.

As soon as it's explained, it's finished, it's no longer that – no longer that, the very essence of the thing is lost.

It's nothing but movements of consciousness.

¹ K's mother is a friend of P.L.'s. Both mother and son stay at the Ashram.

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² Satprem later learnt that the boy had seen the Pope two or three times in audiences (when he lived in Rome, where P.L. was looking after him).

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