Chapter 1April 3, 1968

(In continuation of the conversation of March 20, 1968,

regarding the member of the Roman Curia.)

Have you seen P.L. again?

No.

I saw him yesterday.

He spoke to me, but I didn’t hear. I don’t know what he told me. But I VERY STRONGLY had – very strongly, and it lasted a long time – the sense of the beginning, the commencement... the start of something like an action or a series of events that would have great importance for the development of the earth.30 Very strong: it lasted for hours, that impression. And for me it’s quite unaccustomed, because generally, outward things... (Mother shakes her head) it’s all so relative, all events are so relative that they don’t leave any impression.

Quite unusual. And unexpected.

It’s like a door opening onto something that will have a rather considerable importance in the development of the earth.

I didn’t feel he himself was conscious.... It somewhat exceeded human consciousnesses. But I clearly saw, very clearly saw the Pope.

Has he decided to go to Rome?

Yes, and as soon as he gets there, hell ask for an audience.

It’s quite (it remained for hours), quite unaccustomed: something far exceeding human individualities, and it was the beginning of something very important in the history of the earth’s evolution.

The last time I saw him, he asked me how he should get himself received by the Pope. I said to

him, "It’s very simple, it’s Sri Aurobindo’s name that will open the door for you; just write the Pope, ‘I come from Sri Aurobindo’s Ashram and I would like to see you.’"

(Mother goes into

a long concentration)

It’s strange, a strange sensation.... You know, like turning a page. Yesterday and right up to now, it’s 30This would seem to be the continuation or concretization of the movement begun in 1967 with Mother’s note, "Christianity deifies suffering to make it the instrument of the earth’s salvation" (July 29, 1967), then the visits of Mrs. Z, who claimed to want to bring about a rapprochement between the Church and the Ashram, and again of the monk who