Chapter 18January 24, 1973

(Dalai Lama:) As for myself, I have no desire to continue in power in the Government. For I feel that the Government involves so much of conflicts of parties, and the necessity of taking sides with one party against the other....

One can govern without taking sides. That is the mistake of all the governments; they reduce their capacity tremendously.

But beyond the mind, there is a higher and deeper consciousness – they would find a Consciousness in which one can make use of all the capacities. It is a question of the consciousness being broad enough, so that each capacity can be put in its place in order to make a general harmony.

(Dalai Lama:) There is good will, there is sincerity among people all over the world, but the number of such people is not large. Will they be able to have an effect to change the conditions of the world?

It is bound to change; it is bound to change. Only, if the people are sincere it will shorten the time; it will go faster if the people are sincere.

The first and indispensable step is to stop all falsehood. Falsehood is all that contradicts in us the Presence of the Divine.

Do you have something?...

No.

The farther I go, the more contradictions I discover in myself – sharp contradictions. They look like impossibilities.

No, not impossibilities – it probably means you have to go deeper or higher to their meeting ground. That’s how it works: the opposites get increasingly vehement until we find the point where they...

118Message of November 26, 1972: “Before dying, falsehood rises in full swing. Still people understand only the lesson of catastrophe. Will it have to come before they open their eyes to the truth? I ask an effort from all so that it has not to be. It is only the Truth that can save us; truth in words, truth in action, truth in will, truth in feelings. It is a choice between serving One must go deeper and deeper, or higher and higher – it’s one and the same thing. It’s the same thing.

(silence)

All our old ways of understanding things are WORTHLESS – worthless.

All, all our values are WORTHLESS.

We are on the threshold of something truly marvelous, but... we don’t know how to keep it – it comes like this (gesture imitating a passing bird).... We just don’t know.

Never, never before have I had such a sense of ignorance, of impotence, of... of being a jumble of frightful contradictions, and I know, I KNOW – deep down, beyond speech – that it’s because I don’t know how to find the place where they... they harmonize and unite.

I can do absolutely nothing, I know absolutely nothing – in fact, I am nothing but a... false appearance, that’s all.

I don’t remember anything, I even forget what I have said before.... Everything is... (gesture of crumbling).

And strangely, almost at the same time, there’s torture and bliss at the same time. There you are.

(Mother coughs

silence)

Only, what’s odd is that human nature as it is constituted seems to understand torture more readily than bliss.

There’s a curious phenomenon: because books [by Mother] are published, I am put in contact with things I said before, and of course when I said them I was very convinced, but now... I tell myself: how could you say that!

Well.

There is “something”... (Mother opens her palms upward).

(long silence)

There is only one, one will left: may the Divine express Himself without deformation through this body. This is constant, constant, constant, constant....

Tell me, what is the mantra?

OM....

OM Namo Bhagavateh?

Bhagavateh, yes, Mother.

(Mother plunges in.

The clock strikes an eternal hour)