India - the Mother

May 1, 1971

(A few days earlier, Mother received a minister from Andhra Pradesh who is facing a strike by some four hundred thousand workers. The workers had written to Mother requesting her to ask the minister to have pity on them....)

... The gentleman came, gave me flowers, took my flower, and then ran off! I didn't have a chance to do anything.

I wanted to tell him this:

"Most of the suffering is due to men's ignorance.
"We must have compassion and help them."

But I didn't have a chance to tell him. He seemed to be a man ... (gesture like iron). I don't know what's happening, but it's like that everywhere, everywhere.

Yes, everywhere. One really gets the feeling that the world is in complete turmoil.

Yes, oh, yes!

And individuals too.

... And then the impression that order must be restored WITH THE HELP OF THOSE WHO HAVE CREATED THE DISORDER. It came to me very strongly. That's what I am trying to do in Delhi, by using the man who was the cause of the teachers' strike.⁶⁹ He came to see me, and I said to him (his dismissal from the school started the whole thing): "I am putting you back in the school so you restore order!" And he accepted. I think it can be tried out.

... Instead of resting on the foundation of ordinary goodwill and all the moral and social rules—all that, brrm! collapsed—we must rise above, find the divine Will and the divine Harmony. That is what we want. As for those who rebel against the ordinary order of things and the ordinary social conventions: well, prove that you are in contact with a higher consciousness and a truer truth....

We must ... we must take a leap upward.

All those who seek to restore order pull back towards all the old ideas—that's why they are unsuccessful. But that's over. It's over. We are going upward. Only those who can go upward can act.

Mother's Agenda: May 1, 1971