Chapter 4November 11, 1970

“I have read a lot and heard about past and future lives, but I strongly feel that it is in this very life that we must realise our highest aspirations, as if it were the last chance given us. For me, allusions to other lives are intangible and academic rather than a help and a hope. It is not that I do not believe in reincarnation, but that thought recurs to my mind very often. Mother, is it a narrowness of vision on my part, or what?”

The knowledge of past lives is interesting for a knowledge of one’s nature and the mastery

of one’s imperfections. But to tell the truth, it has no crucial importance and it is far more important to concentrate on the future, on the consciousness we must acquire and the development of the nature, which is almost limitless for those who know how to do it.

We are at a specially favorable time of universal existence, when everything on the earth is

preparing for a new creation, or rather a new manifestation in the eternal creation.

* * * (Then the conversation turns to a Chinese disciple who has placed money with friends of the Ashram in

Singapore....)

Tomorrow is illusory.

You’ll read me your chapter.

Yes.... But what about you? You no longer speak.

Me, I have nothing to say.

When you have finished your book, I’ll speak.

Have you finished?

Almost.

That’s what interests me, what you’ve put at the end.