June 30, 1967
(About an Indian disciple from South Africa who has been
jailed for a few months in Syria under the pretext
that his banknotes were counterfeit.)
… They have no government to protect them. Before India’s independence they had a British passport, but now the government of South Africa doesn’t recognize them, the government of India doesn’t look after them, so they’re like that, neither fish nor fowl, and with no one to protect them. It’s rather peculiar.
There are a few here [in the Ashram] who still have a British passport, and they don’t know what to do. They’re neither this nor that, they’re nothing I
To those who are nice I say, “Never mind, you will become Aurovilians.” That saves everything. Because the principle has been recognized by UNESCO, they’ve recognized the idea: everyone becomes Aurovilian, no more separate nationality. So it’s very good.
As an idea, it’s interesting.
Only, I’ve warned them to be careful about admissions, because … (Mother laughs) it could be seen as a refuge for brigands who have been driven out of their country! … As long as I control admissions it’s all right, but after?…
What’s that country again which started as a colony of brigands? … (Laughing) There’s a country like that somewhere, which started as a colony, I forget which.[[ Perhaps Australia? ]]
Soon afterwards
This morning, at 4: 30 when I got up, I remember I thought, “Well, here is something interesting to tell Satprem.” And now it’s all gone! …
(Mother goes into a long meditation
lasting almost the whole time)
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It could go on indefinitely! …
But now I remember what it was this morning: it was about health and balance. Because it was like an answer to a sort of call (or prayer or aspiration, anyway, as you like) that I had yesterday evening, and in the night I seemed to be shown the mechanism to restore harmony in the body’s functioning.
And I made a special concentration on you, which continued this morning…. Now I remember.
These are things that can’t be explained yet. It’s not yet possible to explain them.
But it came back just now, like a demonstration…. What could we call it? A sort of mode of being in the cells and their relationships with each other, under … (how can I put it?) the government of the supreme Consciousness. And the difference in the functioning. The way to establish the inner balance.
It can’t be explained.
So that’s what was being done [last night and during the whole meditation]. And it’s a seemingly almost endless work.
I remember, for nearly an hour this morning, I had a demonstration in my own body of how to do it. A demonstration. But it can’t be explained. And it began again just now, but instead of being with me alone, it was what I might call a collective demonstration (gesture between Mother and Satprem), I mean it had to do more particularly with you.
It’s like things being put in order, in a certain very subtle way which isn’t easy to express.
There you are.
But it’s clearly an endless work, you know. The general work is relatively swift, but this is a work of detail, on each point, and it’s almost endless.
And then … (smiling) there’s no inclination to talk, either!
So I hope it will have an effect on you.
While you were meditating, I had a sense of extraordinary
harmony.
Ah!
A kind of suppleness – of softness, suppleness, harmony.
Yes, that’s it, that was it.
So it’s good, it shows you are receptive.
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But as soon as one tries to explain it, there comes a sort of principle of artificiality, and it’s no longer the thing.
It was there, oh, for … (this morning, in detail) for more than an hour … (what can I call it?) the substitution of one kind of vibration for another. And in the whole, something … simply harmonious, a great simplicity, a great harmony.
Very well.
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