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December 30, 1972

(Mother distributes presents)

So, a new year is coming….

Do you have a feeling about the new year?

(after a silence)

Things have taken an extreme form. There’s a sort of lifting of the whole atmosphere towards an almost … inconceivable splendor, but at the same time, there’s a feeling that one can … die any moment – not "die," but the body could dissolve. Both things together make up a consciousness in which… (Mother shakes her head) all past experiences seem puerile, childish, unconscious. And this … is stupendous and wonderful.

But the body, the body has a single prayer – always the same:

Make me worthy of knowing You

Make me worthy of serving You

Make me worthy of being You

There.

I can barely eat anymore, and I am not hungry. I feel a growing strength in me … but new in quality … in silence and contemplation.

Nothing is impossible (Mother opens her hands upward).

(silence)

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So if you don’t have any questions to ask…. If you want silence … conscious silence …?

But am I making the right movement, I’m not sure?

Well, when you want to come into contact with the Divine, what movement do you make?

I place myself at your feet.

(Mother smiles,

takes Satprem’s hands

 and plunges in for half an hour)

Did you feel something?

I was offered to the Sun.

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