India - the Mother

March 21, 1964

(The following remarks were prompted by a letter from a doctor and disciple, who had just undergone a brain operation in the USA, and who complained about the carelessness with which he was operated on.)

... And they want to come here to teach everything to the poor Indians who know nothing!

If they cure him, it's all right, but I have my doubts.

... Those Americans are nothing but bluffers—they bluff, bluff, bluff for everything. They come with grand airs, they will right all wrongs, correct all mistakes, enlighten all minds —and they're just at ground level.

Those doctors, when you fall into their clutches ...

(After a silence) And here he kept complaining that his nurses weren't up to the mark—now he'll understand! At least, after that experience, he will understand that what's here is exceptional—they always have to go outside to have this experience, they aren't sensitive enough to feel that here there is something that isn't found elsewhere. In order to compare they have to go elsewhere, and then be "tortured" a little.³⁹

It's too bad—that's the way the world is, it needs to be tortured to understand that there is something else.

Mother's Agenda: March 21, 1964