February 24, 1965
Mother reverts to the events of February 11
Just a few days before the event, I wrote something (Mother looks for a note:)
The human race tolerates and accepts superior beings only on condition that they are at its service.[[Italics indicate words spoken or written by Mother in English. ]]
It was such a strong experience at the time of saying it (in English), and then a day or two later, the attack took place.
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(Regarding the experience of the Vibration of Truth in the physical world on the evening of February 11:)
… I could see the whole difference between this Vibration that had no contact with the formation of Falsehood and violence, and then the inner tremor, which naturally made contact automatically and allowed that manifestation of Falsehood to have an action.
It was Kali’s force that came. But that’s all right, that’s what
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she wanted; she found we were nodding off!
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Soon afterwards
Oh, if you want to be amused, I have received a letter from Alexandra David-Neel…. You know that we had been corresponding and that she was the “great protector” of Tibetan lames (one of them was her “son” and he died there, so she was feeling quite lonely). I told her that we had been put in contact with all those Tibetans[[Mother has received several Tibetans since the invasion of Tibet. ]] and I suggested she might take another one with her (because she had written to me about this). And I added that they would certainly be very glad to serve her in gratitude for the great intellectual progress they would be making with her – she never forgave me! Never forgave me. Because I wrote “intellectual” instead of “spiritual” (I consider she is quite incapable of making anyone progress spiritually, while intellectually, she is first-rate). And since that time, no more letters, nothing. The other day, I got a letter in which she writes (Mother imitates the supercilious tone of the letter), “Dear friend of the past, I have heard about the attack on the Ashram” (you should have read the letter, it was marvelous!), “and I hope that nothing untoward has happened to you. But now that the Ashram’s invulnerability has been destroyed, attacks may recur, so I presume you will leave Pondicherry….”[[Satprem remembers that several years earlier, Madame A. David-Neel had in a letter already advised Mother to leave Pondicherry (it was Mother herself who told this to Satprem around or a little before 1960), because, she predicted, Mother would be "assassinated by her own disciples." That letter must still exist in the Ashram's archives. ]] (Mother laughs) I simply answered her, “Dear friend of always (laughing), do not worry, all is well. Above the forces of destruction, there is the divine Grace, which protects and mends,” and I simply put, “Yours very affectionately.” And I enclosed in the letter the message [[February 21: Above all the complications of the so-called human wisdom stands the luminous simplicity of the Divine’s Grace, ready to act if we allow It to do so. ]] of the 21st.
That woman is eating herself away. Every time I had the opportunity, I spoke to her about Buddha’s love; I told her, “But Buddha was full of love!” And that makes her blood boil!
Well.
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Later
Have you read my answer in the last Bulletin? (Mother hands the text to Satprem)
Those who wish to help the Light of Truth to
prevail over the forces of darkness and falsehood,
can do so by carefully observing the initiating
impulses of their movements and actions, and
discriminating between those that come from the
Truth and those that come from the falsehood, in
order to obey the first and to refuse or reject the
others.
This power of discrimination is one of the first
effects of the Advent of the Truth’s Light in the
earth’s atmosphere….
I was asked the question and I answered (in English).
But there is something interesting here. I have noticed this: if you try EVERY SECOND to discern the impulse of your action, how difficult it is! To discern whether it comes from the ego, whether it comes from darkness, whether it comes from the Light…. And when you want to express as purely as possible what exclusively comes from the Supreme, you have to work at it every second and it is … there was a time (not so long ago) when I used to consider it was materially practically impossible – not in the main lines or in the great movements that come from the higher parts of the being, but in all that is purely material, absolutely material. And all of a sudden, at the beginning of this year, with this Salute to the advent of the Truth [[Message of January 1, 1965. ]] there came a sort of very sharp inner sense, very sharp, very precise, and so QUIET, So quiet, which gave the power to clearly see the origin of a material impulse or a material reaction, EVEN IN VERY SMALL THINGS. It was very interesting. So I studied carefully, and it has become almost automatic.
Previously it took an inner discomfort, a feeling of some friction to make me aware that it wasn’t the true thing; but now it isn’t like that: it is seen BEFOREHAND in the space of half a second.
That’s what I have tried to say here. If people could receive THAT, those who have goodwill would quite naturally follow the indication every minute.
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And it was like a preparation for what happened that night [of February 11], in which from that terrestrial physical consciousness I could see down below (as clearly as material objects) the vibration that made contact with that formation of Falsehood, and THE Vibration, that sort of state in which nothing made contact, nothing could touch.
Since then, several people have told me their experience, and it’s like a proof. For instance, on the night of the 11th, C. went out (he was safe indoors), he wanted to telephone the police and had to go across the yard. (It was literally a shower of brickbats; they had demolished the wall of the volleyball ground and were using the stones: they brought them in rickshaws to bombard us with them.) But C. himself told me that when he went out, everyone shouted to him, “Come back in, come back in! You are mad!” But he went across (stones were raining everywhere): not one hit him. And he felt it was impossible for them to hit him; that my protection was around him and the stones couldn’t hit him. And indeed, they didn’t hit him – they just fell away.
I’ve had several instances like that.
It was like a demonstration of the discernment between the vibration that responds to Falsehood, and the vibration in which there is no response, which means that no contact is possible – they are different worlds. It’s a world of Truth and the other one is a world of Falsehood. And this world of Truth is PHYSICAL, it is material: it’s not up above, it is material. And that’s what must come to the fore and take the place of the other.
The “true physical” Sri Aurobindo spoke of?
The true physical, yes.
(Sujata:) That evening, N.S., too, ran barefoot on glass splinters, and nothing happened to him.
Yes, that’s how it is.
And the brickbat that fell on the window here, I know why it hit its mark, I SAW (I saw everything from up above in exact detail), but there was all the same that sort of Peace which was there in that consciousness; that brickbat they kindly threw at my window (because we had left all the lights on here), hit the mosquito netting (which isn’t even a wire netting: it’s a plastic netting), bounced on it when it should have come through, fell on the roof above and
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made a crack (we didn’t know, we only heard the noise, but the following night there was heavy rain and it came through, so we found out). Well, normally, that stone that had enough force to break the roof’s concrete should have come in – it couldn’t. And it was unthinkable – unthinkable that anything could happen, absolutely unthinkable, the idea simply didn’t occur.
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