Chapter 7The Mother: Some Events in Her Life · Early Occult Experiences

Some Events in Her Life I asked Mother last night to kindly let me know the correct year of her birth. I am waiting to hear from her.

I don’t see why.

22 February 1934

* The reason why I want to know the year of the Mother’s birth is, for the moment, only a certain curiosity, though there may be something deeper behind.

Curiosity is hardly a proper motive — people ask these things because they want to gossip about the Mother as about all things and in the same spirit. It is this constant action from the lower human motives of the ordinary consciousness which keeps people from living within and prevents the transformation of the physical nature.

22 February 1934

* Today something deeper than curiosity has awakened in me. I long to know the year of the Mother’s birth in order to keep it as a loving memory in my heart. Everything about her is dear and sweet to me.

You can have the loving memory without knowing the year. At that rate you could insist on the Mother telling you all the details of her private life so that you may have a loving memory of them.

23 February 1934 When Ramakrishna was doing sadhana, Mother was on earth physically for the first eight years of her childhood, from 1878