April 29, 1967
Mother gives Satprem
a pink lotus bud
A few days ago, in the afternoon, I gave Z a lotus like this one, hardly more open. Then she kept it in her hand and slept with it the whole night. The next morning, she put it in water, and … it opened! After a whole night in her hand. It’s good-natured!
Flowers are very receptive to people’s vitality – to the QUALITY of the vitality. With some people, when they hold a flower it withers instantly; with others, it opens. I myself saw several times Sri Aurobindo take a half-withered flower in his hand, and it became quite fresh again – it was quite happy!
And I knew a woman in Paris, who claimed to be a disciple [of Mother's], she would always bring me flowers when she came to see me, and always, without a single exception, the flowers had withered. She would arrive and tell me, “But they were quite fresh when I bought them!” (Mother laughs) And they were absolutely finished. So in the end I told her, “It’s because you take all their life into yourself!”
She had taken away their life.
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Soon afterwards
Last time I told you about those two vibrations…. There is a constant effort to bring everything under the true Vibration. And the subtlety of the work is very interesting. The whole night is spent like that, too.
I feel something is really being prepared: there is a very strong
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pressure – but what? I don’t know. People ask me, “What’s going to happen on 4.5.67?”[[May 4, 1967. In a letter of February 2, 1934, Sri Aurobindo declared: "4.5.67 is the year of the complete realisation." It seems he also said that from 1967, governments would obey the supramental influence. The sequence of figures (4.5.67) is what appears to have a special occult significance. ]] I tell them, “Wait and see.”
There is a very active influence from Sri Aurobindo, and then this constant work [of the two vibrations]: even during the visits, when people whom I don’t know come, it goes on. It’s like a sort of sifting.
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(Then Mother asks for news of Satprem, who is not
too well physically or otherwise.)
… I have only one remedy left for everything. But it’s active!
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