India - the Mother

February 7, 1970

(About several French students who set themselveon fire to protest against the war in Biafra.)

In fact, it is a protest against this society, this false society without future.

Yes, what's going on on the earth is really ugly.

Yes, it's ugly.

(After a silence) A few days ago, I had the visit of a woman from Vietnam, whom I had already seen many years ago. So she came back and saw me. She sat down in front of me (a small woman, short and plump, very sweet), and she said, "I have come because we have been at lwar for twenty-five years...." And there was such sorrow in her atmosphere, it was ... oh, so pitiful! "For TWENTY-FIVE YEARS we have been at war," she told me, "so I have come: can we hope for peace?..." And I felt ... (Mother closes her eyes.)

It's like that: they are so proud because they go to the moon, and they are slaughtering each other on the earth.

(After a long silence) There are many things I understan now.... When I am in the terrestrial consciousness, there are GREAT waves of something so miserable, so ... so pitifully sorrowful.... It comes in waves. Then, if I am perfectly quiet, still, doing nothing, in response to that the Force descends like this and enters, penetrates into that. And it does a lot of work.

Mother's Agenda: February 7, 1970