India - the Mother

March 27, 1963

All the global trends that result in "peace movements" of one kind or another, are nothing but expressions of the quest for Security. My own experience is a supersecurity, which can be really found only in union with the Supreme—nothing, nothing, nothing in the world can give you security, except this : union, identification with the Supreme.

... And the quest for Security corresponds fairly well to the global state of mind.

The nations of the world legitimize that destructive madness of the arms race by saying it's a way to prevent destruction through fear—that's futile. As an argument, it's futile, but that's the way they think. It's part of that same thirst or need for Security: nothing can be achieved except in peace, nothing can be arrived at except in peace, nothing can be realized except in peace—we need peace, individually, collectively, globally. So let's make horrifying weapons of destruction so that men will be so frightened that nothing will happen—how childish! But that's the current state of mind. It is still one of those ... in English they say "device," a ploy (it's not a "ploy," it's a means—between ploy and means) to urge the human race on towards its evolutionary goal. And for that, we must catch hold of the Divine : it's a means of catching hold of the Divine. For there is nothing—nothing, nothing exists from the point of view of Security, except the Supreme. If we ARE the Supreme, that is to say, the supreme Consciousness, supreme Power, supreme Existence, then there is Security—outside of that, there is none.

Mother's Agenda: March 27, 1963