India - the Mother

January 24, 1961

I am in close contact with the whole Vedic world since I've been reading this book [Sri Aurobindo's Secret of the Veda]: I see beings, hear sentences.... A lot of things are from the ancient Vedic tradition. There were, there are constantly, Sanskrit words coming, sentences, bits of dialogue.... It's not Vedic but pre-Vedic. The experience has put me into contact with a civilization prior to the Vedas: the Rishis and the Vedas are a kind of transition between that vanished civilization and the Indian civilization which grew out of the Vedic Age. That was very interesting to notice.

Mother's Agenda: January 24, 1961