Chapter 2August 7, 1971

(Mother makes several unsuccessful attempts to record her message in English for “All India Radio”

for August 15, the beginning of Sri Aurobindo’s Centenary year.)

Today is the first day of Sri Aurobindo’s centenary year. Though he has left his body he is

still with us, alive and active.

Sri Aurobindo belongs to the future; he is the messenger of the future. He still shows us the

way to follow in order to hasten the realisation of a glorious future fashioned by the Divine Will.

All those who want to collaborate for the progress of humanity and for India’s luminous

destiny must unite in a clairvoyant aspiration and in an illumined work.

(Mother gives up,

Satprem makes the recording in her place)

I am deep in transformation, that’s why I’ve lost control. What I could do before I can’t do anymore. I see, I clearly see the direction it will take, but it’s not there yet. So now I am good-for-nothing.

My voice is completely ruined.

It’s interesting only from a documentary standpoint [the present conditions], because when this experience ends, and the supermind really starts coming, things will change and it will have a mere historical value.

It’s the most unpleasant moment.... The Power is here, you see, but the means of expressing it have not yet been created.

(silence)

The old control is slipping away. It’s quite irksome for me – especially for eating, for instance, it’s very hard to swallow, to... oh!

The body has simply a kind of... perception – a distant perception – of what the true supramental control will be, but it’s only like this (gesture into the distance), almost like a promise, nothing more.

Truly a transition between two worlds.

Didn’t A. give you something?

No, Mother.

(Mother tries to remember)

My memory is completely gone. I have impressions, but no memory. Impressions that underlie everything – that’s probably what will replace memory.

But I have a strong impression that A. had something to tell you....

(long silence)

I have a curious impression of a kind of web – a web with... like very loose threads, I mean not tightly meshed, connecting all events, and if you have power over one of these webs, there’s a whole field of circumstances that apparently have nothing to do with each other but which are linked together there in such a way that one necessarily implies the existence of the other.... And I have the impression it’s something that envelops the earth.

And it’s not mental. They are circumstances that depend on one another, in a completely invisible way outwardly, without any mental logic, and yet as though connected to each other.

If you are conscious, really conscious of that, that’s how you can change circumstances.

And you feel a power over one of those webs?

No, it’s the other way around: it’s because I was working on one of those webs that I noticed it.

Ohh!... I see.

(Mother goes within)

You have nothing to ask?

No, Mother.

(silence)

Are circumstances going to change?

(Mother immediately goes within and seems

not to have heard. Later, several times she tries to speak but does not succeed

in coming out of her state)

Hard to say.