India - the Mother

August 7, 1963

... Outwardly, difficulties are coming back, in the sense that the Chinese seem to be seized again with a zeal to conquer—they are massing troops at the border.

Yet it seems quite unlikely they will attack.

Then why are they massing troops [along India's northe borders]?

Blackmail.

Obviously, but ... The result is that the Americans said they would come to help if they attacked. Even the Russians said they would help.

Well, we don't know. I SEE those great currents : they're like currents of madness that catch hold of people and things.... At bottom, it may be really a rather acute conflict between the Yes and the No, that is to say, between all that struggles to hasten the coming of new things and all that refuses—refuses with increasing violence.

Mother's Agenda: August 7, 1963