1. January 1969 (Illnesses)

The vast majority of illnesses and bodily disorganizations come from the vital and the mind, from their influence.

15. January 1969 (Consciousness)

The consciousness kept saying: “The individual is nothing, abdicate (entsagen) the individual, be sincere.

22. February 1969 (Peace)

It is only immutable peace that can make possible eternity of existence.

26. February 1969 (Judging)

The morality of one country is immorality in another...

The service of the Divine exacts a sincerity in the surrender unknown to all moralities.

These moralists imagine they’re “above,” above the fallen condition of “others,” while they’re in the same sludge (Schlamm) as everyone else!

19. March 1969 (Transformation)

There is a way, which is, before dying, to prepare within oneself a body with all the transformed, illumined, conscious cells, to collect them together and form a body with the maximum number of conscious cells; then, when the work is over, the full consciousness enters it and the other body can dissolve, it no longer matters.

26. March 1969 (Difficulties to disappear)

Sri Aurobindo (12.10.1929):

If you keep this truth of the work in mind and always abide by it, difficulties are likely to disappear; for others will be influenced by the rightness of your attitude and work smoothly with you or, if through any weakness or perversity in them, they create difficulties, the effects will fall back on them and you will feel no disturbance or trouble.

29. March 1969 (Christianity)

Christianity could admit the reincarnation of Christ, or a second, future Christ, it would be saved – its attitude would be open instead of being closed.

9. April 1969 (New Consciousness)

A new consciousness is at the work upon earth to prepare the coming of the superhuman being.

Open yourselves to this consciousness if you aspire to serve the Divine Work.

To come into contact with this new consciousness, the essential condition is no longer to have any desires and to be wholly sincere.

9. April 1969 (Subtle Body)

At night the body is taller, and it’s active, it does things ( it’s this subtle body that does things, is active and has an existence of which it is wholly conscious, but in the subtle physical it’s a Physical Body, and it’s already something permanent.

16. April 1969 (Supreme Consciousness)

One must be able to stand in the light of the Supreme Consciousness without casting a shadow.

19. April 1969 (India)

For... for years, even from the time Sri Aurobindo was here, there had been the vision – an inner vision – that India is the place where the fate of the earth will be decided. So the two opposite possibilities are there. As if it were said that if there were war, it would be over India.

26. April 1969 (Attitude towards Religions)

A benevolent goodwill towards all worshippers.

An enlightened indifference towards all religions.

All religions are partial approaches to the one simple Truth that is far above them.

The harm you have caused wilfully always comes back to you in one form or another.

3. May 1969 (Human Life)

The human life revolves around those three things – eating, dying, and having money.

3. May 1969 (Hidden Wonders)

We are in the presence of hidden wonders that elude (entzieht sich) completely because we‘re idiots.

17. May 1969 (Sri Aurobindo)

When Sri Aurobindo left, I was standing near his bed, and all the supramental force he had concentrated in his body (what was left in his body), he passed on to me.

24. May 1969 (Satprem – Mother)

You are helping me as much as you can. It’s very good… There’s one thing: you are the only one I can talk to.

31. May 1969 (About this Creation)

But what’s this creation?… You know, separation, then wickedness, cruelty (the thirst to cause harm, we might say), then suffering, again the joy of causing suffering, and then all disease, decomposition, death – destruction.

31. May 1969 (Salvation)

But salvation is PHYSICAL – not at all mental, but PHYSICAL.

31. May 1969 (The Body)

If you asked the body, it would say, “I don’t know if I am alive, I don’t know if I am dead.” For a few minutes it absolutely has the feeling of being dead; at other times, it has the feeling of being alive. The body is like that. And it feels that exclusively depends on… whether the Truth is perceived or not.

28. June 1969 (The West – India)

The West expresses more than it really knows.

India knows more than it really can express.

19. July 1969 (The Prestige of an Institution)

The prestige of an institution claiming to be a centre of spirituality lies in its spirituality, not in newspaper columns or famous people.

19. July 1969 (A sincere Heart)

A sincere heart is worth all the extraordinary powers in the world.

26. July 1969 (Savitri)

Sri Aurobindo: “We can’t both remain upon earth, one must go.”

The Mother: “I am ready, I’ll go.”

Sri Aurobindo: “No, you can’t go, your body is better than mine, you can undergo the transformation better than I can do.”

26. July 1969 (Satprem and the Mother)

Satprem: “But doesn’t it mean that your presence here could help him, one day, to materialize in another body?”

Mother: “I’ll come back only in a supramental body.”

2. August 1969 (Religions)

It’s the unification of All religions that’s needed, not the unification of Christianity.

9. August 1969 (Tolerance)

Tolerance is only the first step towards wisdom.

The need to tolerate indicates the presence of preferences.

He whose consciousness is one with the Supreme Consciousness meets all things with a perfect equanimity.

9. August 1969 (Consciousness)

This Consciousness which has been at work since January insists a lot on the need to become conscious and do things at will: one should be born at will, die at will, fall ill at will – will must be the dominant principle. It insists on that a lot.

16. August 1969 (Right Living)

In the end, I am absolutely convinced that confusion is to teach us to live from day to day, that is to say, without being preoccupied with what may happen or what will happen, just concerning ourselves from day to day with what we have to do. All thinking and foreseeing and devising and all that furthers disorder a lot.

20. August 1969 (True Work)

That’s the first lesson one must learn in order to do the work: not to have any self-regard.

Things must roll off you without affecting you. That’s VERY IMPORTANT.

23. August 1969 (Sri Aurobindo’s Teaching)

The Bulletin belongs to the past. Sri Aurobindo’s teaching belongs to the past.

27. August 1969 (Money)

Money is not meant to make money. Money is meant to prepare the earth for the new creation.

27. August 1969 (Intervention)

One has the right not to intervene only when one is constantly – constantly und intimately – united with the Supreme: when one is the REPRESENTATIVE of the Force, of the supreme Consciousness. That’s all. Otherwise, one must intervene. And he had that sense to the utmost, you understand, it was with him that I learned not to intervene.

Otherwise, it’s the play of forces, and it’s NECESSARY to intervene.

30. August 1969 (Auroville)

Auroville wants to be the cradle of the superman.

Auroville, the free international township. No army, no police…

They are replaced by a battalion of guards, consisting of athletes and gymnasts.

30. August 1969 (Supramental Body)

It’s a pink with a golden glow, you understand. So the two are seen together.

10. September 1969 (Mother’s Body)

But this body was built in a curious way, because every time it’s in external contact with wickedness, that is, the will to hurt, the will to destroy, the will to cause harm, it doesn’t understand, and that gives it...

17. September 1969 (Auroville)

The earth needs a place where people can live sheltered from all national rivalries, all social conventions, all contradictory moralities and antagonistic religions. A place where, freed from all those slaveries of the past, human beings will be able to wholly dedicate themselves to the discovery and practice of the Divine Consciousness that wants to manifest.

Auroville wants to be that place, and offers itself to all those who aspire to live tomorrow’s truth.

20. September 1969 (Auroville)

Auroville is the ideal place for those who want to know the joy and liberation of not having any more personal possession.

20. September 1969 (Limitation)

As long as you have a sense of narrow limits, you want to take, because you are afraid to lose. Because if you were spread out in all things, if all the vibrations that come in or go out expressed the need to merge in everything, to broaden, to grow, not remaining in our limits but breaking out of them, eventually identifying with the whole, you would have nothing to lose anymore, because you would have everything.

27. September 1969 (Work)

Even the pettiest work isn’t a limitation! If one is capable of doing a general Work, it goes on CONSTANTLY, without a material occupation. I mean the real work is done in silence.

11. October 1969 (Mother’s experience in the subtle physical)

That black being, I see him very often… It must be the symbol of the force opposed in the world (not only on the earth but in the world) to the Action I have been given to do. He is associated with my body. A tall, tall black being…

18. October 1969 (The Mind)

If the mind goes away. Mind and vital. It must abdicate. Abdicate and fall silent.

18. October 1969 (The Ordinary and Other State)

Truly, the ordinary state, the old state, is consciously (meaning it’s a conscious perception), it’s death and suffering. And then in the other state, death and suffering appear to be… absolutely unreal.

8. November 1969 (The conscious Pressure)

They think they’re ill – it’s not that, it’s the uncertainty… it’s the cells which no longer know whom they must obey.

12. November 1969 (The Most Precious Things)

In life the most precious things are among those you do not see with your physical eyes.

12. November 1969 (Sri Aurobindo about Truth)

Every truth, however true in itself, yet taken apart from others which at once limit and complete it, becomes a snare (Schlinge) to bind the intellect and a misleading dogma.

For in reality, each is one thread of a complex weft (Gewebe) and no thread must be taken apart from the weft.

12. November 1969 (Movements of Evolution)

All movements of evolution are expressed as a means of transport: ship, train, car, anything.

12. November 1969 (Battle in the Vital and Mental)

Everywhere it’s a battle. Especially in the vital, especially, still more than in the mind; in the mind, there’s a movement of understanding, but in the vital… a rage, you know, a rage.

15. November 1969 (Auroville)

Who took the initiative of Auroville?

The Supreme Lord.

Who is participating in the financing of Auroville?

The Supreme Lord.

If one wants to live in Auroville, what does it mean for oneself?

Striving towards the supreme perfection.

In order to live in Auroville, must one be a student of Yoga?

All life is a yoga. Thus one cannot live without practicing the supreme yoga.

Will family life continue in Auroville?

If one has not gone beyond that.

Can one keep religion in Auroville?

If one has not gone beyond that.

Can one be atheistic in Auroville?

If one has not gone beyond that.

Will there be a social life in Auroville?

If one has not gone beyond that.

Will there be compulsory community activities in Auroville?

Nothing is compulsory.

Will money circulate in Auroville?

No, it is only with outside that Auroville will have money dealings.

Who will be the owner of lands and buildings?

The Supreme Lord.

In which languages will teaching be given?

In all languages spoken on earth.

22. November 1969 (Fear)

Fear is a degradation of human consciousness.

22. November 1969 (Children)

One should beware of parents who are good and very respectable, because birth is a purge.

29. November 1969 (Understanding)

To listen is good but not sufficient, You must understand.

To understand is good but not yet sufficient, You must act.

10. December 1969 (New Consciousness)

One must have lived what one wants to teach.

To speak of the new consciousness, let it penetrate you and reveal its secret to you.

For only then will you be able to speak of it with competence.

To leap into the new consciousness the first condition is a mental modesty sufficient to be convinced that all one thinks one knows is nothing in comparison with what remains to be learned.

All that one has learned externally must be only a foothold enabling one to rise towards higher knowledge.

10. December 1969 (Not Blaming Others)

Never lay the blame on others or on circumstances because whatever the circumstances may be, even apparently the worst, if you are in the true attitude and have the true consciousness, it doesn’t matter in the least for your inner progress, not in the least.

13. December 1969 (Not Blaming Others)

…here’s only ONE way, it’s for the ego to go away, that’s all. That’s the thing. It’s when, instead of an “I”, nothing remains there – completely flat, you know like this (immense, even gesture without a ripple) with a sort of…not even expressed in words, but a very STABLE expression of, “What you will, what you will”…Really with a concrete sensation that this (the body) doesn’t exist it’s only “made use of”, as it were, and there’s NOTHING but That. You eventually see it, you know …a vision of this IMMENSE Force, this IMMENSE vibration pressing and pressing and pressing …and then the world wriggling about underneath (!) and the thing opening – and when it opens, that enters and spreads….

It’s the only solution, there’s no other. … The image is very clear of all this humanity clinging and climbing striving to catch like that, but actually not giving itself – it wants to take! And that won’t do. It has to nullify itself. Then something else can come, can take its place.

The whole secret is there…. Ultimately, that’s the most difficult: to learn to disappear.

17. December 1969 (Humanity)

Humanity wants to take! And that won’t do. It has to nullify itself. Then something else can come, can take its place.

17. December 1969 (Mother – Courage – Love – Selfishness)

Courage is the total absence of fear in all its forms.

Love is self-giving without asking for anything in exchange.

Meanness is a weakness that calculates and demands from others the virtue one does not have.

Selfishness is to put oneself at the center of the universe and to want everything to exist for one’s own satisfaction.

24. December 1969 (OM)

That OM is the totality of the sounds of the creation perceived by the Supreme; He hears OM as a call to Him– as an idea, it’s magnificent! As a symbol, as a… Only…

31. December 1969 (Auroville – Matrimandir)

…and at this center, there is what we first called the “Matrimandir” – which I always see as a very large hall, absolutely bare, you understand, and getting a light from above: it should be so arranged that the light from above gets concentrated on a spot where there would be… what we want to put as the center of the city. We first thought of Sri Aurobindo’s symbol, but we can put anything we like. Like that, with a ray of light constantly striking from above – revolving and revolving… to follow the sun, you understand. If it’s done well, it would be very good. And then, below, people would be able to sit and meditate, or just rest, but there would be NOTHING – nothing except something comfortable below so they can sit without getting tired, probably with pillars acting at the same time as backrests. Something like that. That’s what I always see. A hall with a ceiling high enough to allow sunlight to come in as a RAY, depending on the time of the day, and fall on that center which will be there.