India - the Mother

March 19, 1966

(Two months earlier, on January 19, Indira Gandhi was nominated prime minister of India.)

... In India things don't look good.

That's where the nerve centre is. It's very sad, it's not pretty.

It doesn't look good.

And that poor woman truly does the best she can with goodwill, a goodwill that tries to understand all sides at the same time. She really does the best she can. Inwardly I support her as much as I can, because ...

It is true that up till now, the government has multiplied blunders of such stupidity! ... It seems a child with common sense wouldn't have committed such blunders. And naturally, even in those who have no bad will or vengeful feelings, it creates an unpleasant tension: you can't do anything anymore, you're bound on all sides! Whatever you do, there are oppositions and prohibitions everywhere. So people no longer know what to do, nobody can do anything anymore.

They have ruined the country, starved it.

... It's pitiable.

(After a silence) But up above, "one" really isn't in favour of havoc.

One isn't in favour of havoc?

(Mother makes a gesture of vigorous denial) It's a waste of time.

All the more so as men have perfected such means of destruction that it could mean centuries lost, not just a few years. Entire civilizations to rebuild.

No, "one" isn't in favour of that.

It's a seething of something very dark, very dark.

... What's lamentable above all is the way men confuse power with violence. That sort of ignorant feeling that thinks power must manifest as violence.⁵⁶ Violence is an asuric deformation. True power acts in peace—a peace like this (gesture of massive descent), which nothing can disturb.

Mother's Agenda: March 19, 1966