November 7, 1970
(Mother answers a question put by a young disciple.)
"I have read a lot and heard about past and future lives, but
I strongly feel that it is in this very life that we must realise
our highest aspirations, as if it were the last chance given
us. For me, allusions to other lives are intangible and aca
demic rather than a help and a hope. It is not that I do not
believe in reincarnation, but that thought recurs to my mind
very often. Mother, is it a narrowness of vision on my part,
or what?"
The knowledge of past lives is interesting for a knowledge of one’s nature and the mastery of one’s imperfections. But to tell the truth, it has no crucial importance and it is far more important to concentrate on the future, on the consciousness we must acquire and the development of the nature, which is almost limitless for those who know how to do it.
We are at a specially favorable time of universal existence, when everything on the earth is preparing for a new creation, or rather a new manifestation in the eternal creation.
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(Then the conversation turns to a Chinese disciple who has
placed money with friends of the Ashram in Singapore….)
Tomorrow is illusory.
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