India - the Mother

February 28, 1961

You know this mental habit (which people take for mental superiority!) of lumping everything together on the same level: all the teachings, all the prophets, all the sects, all the religions, all ... You know that habit: "We are not prejudiced, we have no preferences, it's all the SAME THING."—A dreadful muddle .

It's one of the biggest mental difficulties of the age....

Then the reply [to a disciple's letter] came to me very strongly; something took hold of me and I was, so to say, compelled to write: "What Sri Aurobindo represents in the world's history is not a teaching, not even a revelation; it is a decisive action direct from the Supreme."

Mother's Agenda: February 28, 1961