India - the Mother

February 18, 1963

I had stopped long ago taking care of everything—long before I came upstairs,²⁹ I told people, "See to your business yourselves." And what chaos it has become!... That, too, made worse by the fact that they stopped seeing me physically. The physical presence was simply keeping a rein on them.

It has become unthinkable.

But I must say it isn't confined to the Ashram: it's the same all over the world—especially in India ... the government has gone completely crazy. They bombard people with papers and forms and regulations and prohibitions....

You see, to govern properly, you have to be ... you have to be a sage! You should have a universal vision and be above all personal questions.... There is not one—not one.

(Later, Mother reads a note she has written)

"The most important point for everyone is to know whether he belongs to the past perpetuating itself, to the present exhausting itself, or to the future trying to be born."

Mother's Agenda: February 19, 1963