India - the Mother

August 28, 1963

(As his book on Sri Aurobindo is again turned down by a French publisher, Satprem remarks on the lack of openness in France.)

... How will there be a breach there one day?

Oh! ... You remember that aphorism of Sri Aurobindo's?...³⁶ I understand VERY WELL what he means.

That will be the day of the great overturn.

A little child ...

I didn't want to comment on it.... But it's true.

Because they're impregnable. Those people are impregnable.

Mentally.

It's not mentally that you can make them yield.

Then how?... It's either by force—violent force—or else by a miracle (what they call a "miracle") that will leave them ... dumbfounded.

Those people are entirely vulnerable (by vulnerable, I mean defenceless) to spiritual force. The day when it manifests physically, there will be a debacle.

Even here, with these people who through their tradition are so accustomed to the Power, the true spiritual Power, when it just manifests a little, they ... they tremble all over. But there they deny it ... which means they are completely defenceless.

I don't know when it will come—I don't know, it may not be soon—but one thing I know: when it comes, there will be panic—you know, THE Panic.

And in a panic, you can do something.

(After a silence) The Americans are more open, because they have remained more childlike—they think they know everything on a material level, but they also know that there are things they don't know. While the others ... they are "beyond childish religious beliefs," of course!

It's not even true, for as soon as a little something stirs within (gesture at the heart centre), they plunge back into their Catholicism.

Anyway ...

Mother's Agenda: August 28, 1963