India - the Mother

December 27, 1967

(During violent anti-Hindi agitation in South India particularly in Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry: trains, buses, post offices, etc., are set on fire....)

If there were a way (that's what I have been working on for some time), a way to make all this youth understand that to destroy doesn't build—they can't give birth to anything whatsoever with this means. They want to change the state of things, agreed—they may not see very clearly the direction in which we should go, but that things must change is agreed—but still, this method is downright stupid....

You see, that was the method of the adverse forces to prove that the creation was bad: they weren't satisfied with the creation and set about doing that—that's what they have been doing on a big scale. But it doesn't prove anything! They have established death, established destruction and all the forms of violence and hatred, anyway they turned everything topsy-turvy with the thought that, that way, the world would become a superior world—which is stupid.

And all these people now follow one another in single file, not even aware of what they're doing or why or how or anything! ... They act in the name of freedom and, yes, free progress, because an attempt is made to impose an arbitrary law [Hindi] on them—the arbitrary law is stupid, but what they are doing is still more silly.

Yes, but in this case, all the politicians are the ones to blame.

Oh, yes.

The students follow directives.

... It's perfectly obvious that the higher-ups are the ones to blame, because they're not genuine people : they have neither the knowledge nor the vision nor the wisdom necessary to govern....

You understand, all this confusion, all this disorder seems to be intended to prepare people for one thing, which, obviously, has not so far even been imagined as being possible—the recourse to a disinterested wisdom in order to govern. They're all caught up in "If I do this, these people will be against me; if I do that, those people ..."

(After a silence) At the very bottom of the thing, two tendencies or two conceptions are confronting each other. The first says, "It's badly done: let's destroy it and we'll begin again," from top to bottom. The other says, "It's not the way it should be: let's transform it." These are the two things opposing each other: the effort for progress and transformation, or the brutal and stupid method of smashing everything and starting all over again, so that it goes on endlessly.

It boils down to the fight between Death and Life; progressive life, more and more divine, and Death, which systematically abolishes all that isn't divine. Because only what is divine escapes it.

But the process is ... endless.

The power of progressive transformation is what must be infused into Matter.

Mother's Agenda: December 27, 1967