India - the Mother

April 19, 1969

(Following serious riots in West Bengal involving the army.)

... The previous days, I had seen all kinds of catastrophic things. (I didn't know what the situation was.) When I was told, I instantly knew: I saw the Chinese HERE. Yes. It stirred me a lot, a lot. And with HORRIBLE things, horrible. So I had to send someone immediately to tell her [Indira], "For heaven's sake, support the army." It's India's only hope. The army is good, but it's not supported. But that shouldn't be told, because I am not supposed to concern myself with politics, so ...

But it seems that in three States the Communists WANT the Chinese to come. That's dreadful. The Chinese, you can't imagine what it is.... Horrible! They're horrible. With a cold, terrible cruelty.

So it's been very, very difficult these last few days.... Then I understood why I had seen all those circumstances—for several days it was all about India, and I saw it was serious, very serious....

But this increasingly growing Chinese monster, one doesn't see what will be able to stop it.

Yes, that's right.

One doesn't see, except, of course, a nuclear cataclysm Otherwise, everywhere it only wants to devour.

Yes.

... China is extremely intellectual; if the Chinese intelligence were captured by Sri Aurobindo's thought, it would be ... That seems to be the sole, the only hope.

... America is extremely interested in Auroville. Russia is extremely interested in Auroville. The Chinese ... nothing, absolutely nothing, no response.

They are ... I don't know how to ... The impression is of something stonelike. It doesn't respond.

(After a long silence) For ... for years, even from the time Sri Aurobindo was here, there had been the vision—an inner vision—that India is the place where the fate of the earth will be decided. So the two opposite possibilities are there. As if it were said that if there were war, it would be over India; that the world conflict ... (how can I put it?), the ISSUE would be played out over India. But will the Force of Peace be sufficient to prevent war? There's the whole question. But the whirl of forces is here, over India.

The Consciousness has given a great rapidity of movement to circumstances. But then, it's becoming urgent. And ... oh, falsehood, duplicity ... oh, everything seems to be rising to the surface—it's hideous. Will the Force of Harmony and Peace be strong enough to ... to digest all that? I don't know.

There is always this inner will to ... (gesture of pressure to establish peace). As if it were, I can't say a last conflict, but it's becoming ... it's becoming immediate.

It's like a conflict between the forces that want to destroy the earth and the terrestrial transformation. If those forces can be checked, can be mastered or rendered powerless, then the earth's progress and transformation will go on soaring up—magnificent! But now ... monsters seem to be coming up from every side to prevent that.

(After a silence) It's exactly as if we were sitting on top of a volcano: either the volcano must fall extinct, or everything is going to blow up. That's how it is.

Mother's Agenda: April 19, 1969