Chapter 3June 10, 1970

The first time I read it was a revelation; it hung together perfectly well from beginning to end, and I felt I had understood (I did understand something). The second time I read it, I said to myself, “But this isn’t the same thing as what I read!...” It hung together, it made up a whole – and I understood something else. Then, recently when I read, at every passage I said to myself, “How new this is! And how the things I have found since are there!” Today again, that’s how it is, as if I read it for the first time! And it puts me into contact with the things I have just discovered.

It’s a miraculous book! (Mother laughs)

We’ll continue in the same way.

All the nerves are disorganized....

We can be quiet.... It will do you good. I am very happy to remain like that.

Have you received the latest Aphorisms?

Yes, it’s the end of the Aphorisms, and it ends well!

(Satprem reads)

540 – Canst thou see God in thy torturer and slayer even in thy moment of death or thy hours of torture? Canst thou see Him in that which thou art slaying, see and love even while thou slayest? Thou hast thy hand on the supreme knowledge. How shall he attain to Krishna who has never worshipped Kali?

You answer:

“All is the Divine and the Divine alone exists.”

(Mother goes into a contemplation)