Chapter 22March 21, 1973

with a movement of suffocation)

You see how it is: now, as soon as I try to know something, I feel such a suffocating heat I think I am going to die. There. Do you understand?

Yes.

That’s how it is.

Yes, Mother. Yes, one shouldn’t “try to know,” that’s the point.

(Mother plunges in)

(A note from Mother)

Here we have no religion. We replace religion with spiritual life, which is truer and both deeper and higher, that is to say, closer to the Divine. For the Divine is in all things, but we are not conscious of it.

This is the immense progress that men must make.

What’s up?

I saw you last night.

(In a delighted tone) Aah!