Chapter 3July 23, 1966

marvelous power, incomparably beautiful. Afterwards, once the resistance has ceased, if out of curiosity we want to know why it occurred... it will no longer matter. But right now, it’s not by looking for the why that we will be able to bring about the remedy: it’s by taking the true position. That’s the only thing that matters.

Putting a stop to the resistance through complete surrender, complete self-giving, in all the cells if one can do it.

They are beginning to have that intense joy of being only through the Lord, for the Lord, in the Lord....

When that is established everywhere, it will be fine.

...We’re still receiving a number of letters because of the article in Planète, or from people who have read your book. And there are lots of them who want to come here! That’s more serious!... But anyway, we send them literature. We tell most of them that they have to prepare themselves. And I direct a large number towards Auroville; maybe that’s the essential raison d’être of Auroville....

Today is the birthday of Jyotin, the gardener. He brought me this, look!... (Mother gives a double pink lotus) It’s beautiful.

The day man will be like this...

There, exactly! Exactly what I was thinking. When you see this, you feel your infirmity. (Mother looks at the flower again) It’s wonderful, isn’t it?

Man really isn’t an improvement!... He is full of miseries and ugly things, while this is so simple, so spontaneous.

Yes, a few days ago the consciousness was under attack. All that is petty, sordid, ugly, oh... poor, helpless, all that – it was such an avalanche!... This poor body, it cried over its incapacity to express