Chapter 138March (?) 1959

there was such a purity, such a divine force that he could do nothing. When this girl died, he attacked her, and the two merged – he absorbed her. Then they continued wandering about the Ashram in search of a physical instrument to gain entry into the Ashram. They found an entryway through the intermediary of certain black-minded people. While doing my Puja, I came to know seven of them. All seven came, drawn by my Yantra.133 Some of them are people who have taken Mother’s money and have been collecting money from their duty. I learned this yesterday, and I began a special Puja to turn their mind, put them again on the right path.’ (At this point, he said something that meant this would be easy.)

... ... ... ... Thereupon, X told me, ‘That is all. I will tell you more on Friday, after the Puja. The work will be over.’

Here, the conversation on this subject came to an end. On the way back to his house, I said to him, ‘It would be very useful for Mother to know the names of these people; it would help her own work.’ And I suggested to him that he write down the names of the seven people and put them in a sealed envelope.

Thereupon, X began saying ‘no’ rather categorically. But I insisted, mentioning the help it could bring to your work and saying that apart from you, of course, no one would know since the names would be placed in an envelope. Then he said to me, ‘All right, I shall try tomorrow and ask from the supreme Divinity the name of three of them, the chief ones.’

We did not speak of the living magician who has been paid by a member of the Ashram (undoubtedly one of these 7) to get rid of you. If you like, I will ask him this question another time.

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That’s all, Sweet Mother. Forgive me for all the times I have come to you with ‘small matters.’ these very petty and ugly little things, and that I may always come to you with a wider heart, more capable of seeing you and of loving you better.

Your child,

Signed: Satprem (Letter to Mother from Satprem concerning X’s inquiry into who had practiced black magic on her)

Sweet Mother, you my letter when we meet. Here is what X told me:

‘The message came this morning during the Puja; my guru spoke in the form of Sanskrit slokas and this is not easy to express in English. Normally, I might have waited rather long for the answer, but because of the greatness of the Mother, it came immediately. The message implicated not 7 people, but 25 to 50, all or almost all Gujaratis.’ (Here, X said something I am not sure I grasped, but it was to the effect that either his guru did not seem to find it easy or did not feel like giving so many names, but were Mother to insist, it might be possible. I am not sure if I really understood this.) Then the message spoke of a rivalry between the Gujaratis and the Bengalis (to occupy the key positions in the Ashram); I put this in parentheses for it is more an interpretation on my part, what I ‘felt.’ Moreover, X did not exactly use the word ‘rivalry’ – which he probably doesn’t know – but rather ‘confusion between Gujarati and Bengali.’ However, the message explicitly implicated the Gujaratis of the ‘Head-departments.’ I then asked X if he meant the heads of departments or the main departments. He answered, ‘All Gujaratis,’ whereupon he caught himself and said, ‘75% of them.’ At this point X told me, ‘In the Ashram there are few, FEW people on a very high level, and plenty ...’ without completing his sentence. The message continued, stating explicitly that these Gujaratis are busy making money from Mother (‘making collection of money’), while outwardly pretending to be serving the Ashram. Here, I thought I understood that there was a Bengali group which was seeking to overthrow the Gujaratis so that they could manage the business affairs as they please. Such was the substance of the message. I asked X if he could not write down the very concise Sanskrit slokas he had heard. He said yes, then he said that he would see about this after going to his house???

Then, X told me that he was going to do something to straighten all this out and to ‘turn the mind of those people in the right path. But I cannot do it here, in Pondicherry. About two months will be needed. For two months, I will do a Puja on a special Yantra and when it is finished, I will send Mother this Yantra along with certain manuscripts for the library. Then Mother will have to keep this Yantra beside her to control all these bad elements, and it will help her, her own work.’

about it tomorrow.

Finally, I read your letter to X. Regarding the globe of light, he at once said, ‘I know; it is Mother’s Shakti, her Power in a concentrated form (he did not use the word “concentrated,” but said “collection”). This global, concentrated Shakti came back today; it is a very good sign.’ Then he said something that meant it was a sign that ‘the black Power’ was definitely conquered or controlled. (I will speak to you of a strange dream that I had last night, which seems related to this.134 ) ‘The Shakti had been dispersed by the black attack, but its Light was too powerful to be really touched. It has come back. Also, I saw from certain physical signs that Mother is better.’

Then X expressed the desire to meditate sitting in front of you and not standing: ‘You see, this morning I was flying, I was not touching the floor – outside of the body.’ So he would be more comfortable sitting. Then he added, ‘Every day a different action takes place. Mother knows, but I can tell you a little something because you are very close to me, YOU ARE MY HEART (I was deeply touched when he told me that). The first day my guruji was standing there, by my side, with his hand on my shoulder, blessing me. Another day I was growing, growing 10 feet instead of 5, and great, great Power came in me.’ This is approximate, I no longer remember exactly how he said it. All I know is that something very powerful came into him and afterwards he needed to rest. He did not elaborate, but only repeated, ‘Mother knows.’

134In this ‘dream,’ we saw a titan in a gigantic airplane that crashed to the ground. However, this titan did not seem to