Chapter 9February 25, 1971

But I must say there are days when I hear very well, days when I see very clearly, days when I hear nothing, days when I see nothing. So... it’s like this (gesture of fluctuation).

It’s decentralized (I don’t know how to say it), completely decentralized. So, if I look – if I LOOKED – with the old consciousness, it would be rather... rather unpleasant, you can say, but the old consciousness: gone. It’s something... something that isn’t an individual consciousness, but it is not just a collective consciousness either: there’s “something” up there – THAT, up there – which sees, knows, decides.... That, up there, is quite all right, it hasn’t moved – it hasn’t moved. But this.... (Mother points to her body)

There was some apprehension for the 21st about going out on the balcony,8 the feeling that it would be very difficult – it wasn’t very difficult, it was neutral, neither easy nor difficult.... The values are not the same.

That’s all.

Oh, I would rather hear your chapter.

Here is my pension, Mother.

You don’t need anything?

No, no, Mother! You give me everything I need.

Really?...

(To Sujata:) Tell me if it’s true that he doesn’t need anything.

No, Mother, he doesn’t need anything!

(Reading of the end of Supermanhood,

Chapter 16, “The Season of Truth.”)

(Mother to Sujata:)

There’s an invasion....