Chapter 5October 17, 1970

(long silence)

It’s being done. It’s not something you can look at, it’s something being done.

(long silence)

As if there were no past, you know, one is wholly like this (gesture ahead), there’s nothing behind. A curious sensation.

(long silence)

A curious sensation of something beginning. Not at all, not at all something ending – something beginning. It’s a curious sensation: something beginning. With all the unknown, the unexpected... Strange.

I have that all the time. I constantly feel that things are new... that my relationship with them is new. Me, it’s something there (gesture above). And the body’s impression too (Mother touches her hands) is that of a new way of feeling, new way of reacting.... It’s very strange.

(Mother takes Satprem’s hands)

I have a letter from Dr. V, he asks a question about something Sri Aurobindo said.

(Satprem reads)

“In The Synthesis of Yoga, Sri Aurobindo writes about the perfection of the lower mind, the psychic prana...

What’s that?

I think it’s the vital substance Sri Aurobindo calls like that.

“...and its tyrannical demands that represent the chief natural obstacle invading the whole action of the being. “Where does this psychic prana come from? Is it part of the psychic as the word is understood in India’s psychological language?...

“...Is there some relationship between this psychic prana and the constitution of the Psyche of Western psychologists?”

All those things, I don’t know. It’s philosophy... in English, I would say wordy. Those are psychological words that I don’t know at all.

Yes, of course! In any case, it has no relationship with the psychic, the soul as we understand it.

There’s no use in people asking me this sort of things, I am not at all interested.

Of course!

Sri Aurobindo used a whole lot of terminologies, and only in the end did he adopt the one I brought, then we could understand each other. Before, at the beginning, when I came he used to speak of all kinds of things of this sort.

And on top of it (laughing) it doesn’t interest me!

(Mother gives Satprem soup packets)

Can’t eat.

* * * (Then Satprem reads the third chapter of Supermanhood: “The Sunlit Path.” Afterwards, Mother

remains looking at him for a long time, with a charming smile.)

You’ve entered a new world.... For those who can follow you, it will be good!

Oh, it’s quite new.... (Smiling and approving) It’s extraordinary, you understand, it’s... The impression that a new door has opened. The impression as if you had opened a new door for humanity.

You’re the one who opens it!

(silence)

Extraordinary.

It’s as if you had bidden farewell to the old world.

Yes.

Now (laughing), I’d really like to hear the sequel! How many chapters have you written?

(Mother goes on shaking her head

to express her delight)

Magnificent, it’s magnificent!

(silence)

How does it come?

Oh, Mother, I pray and I let it come.

That’s right.... it’s CLEARLY from another world.

You mustn’t be disturbed until you have finished.

Yes, Mother.... In fact, there are many things trying to disturb me.

Yes.

Inside and outside.

Inside?

Yes, also – circumstances.

You mustn’t, you mustn’t allow that. And people mustn’t read this before it’s over.

Yes, Mother.

For the introduction, we’ll keep bur program.... Have you found a German yet?

No, Mother, I don’t know any.

As for me, I looked for one, but I can’t find. It should be someone a bit intelligent. It should be ready for February. But the book, don’t show it to anyone until its over.

There’s only Sujata who reads and types it.

(Laughing) Sujata, that’s nobody!

You know, it’s magnificent.

Oh, Mother, I have nothing to do with it, I assure you!

I’d really like to hear the continuation.

I hope it won’t disappoint you.