India - the Mother

May 22, 1968

(This is the time of the "May Revolution" in France, in which millions of students and workers brought the country to a standstill. One of the slogans of the students was: "Be real istic demand the impossible." Student uprising followed in many other countries, from Asia to America.)

Mother, and what's now happening in France, what does it mean?

It's clearly the future which is awakening and trying to drive away the past.

... For example, the students want to completely change the method of education: they violently demand the elimination of all examinations. And they themselves are unaware of it, but they are driven by a force that wants the manifestation of a truer truth.

They themselves would rather have no violence—it seems it's not the students who started the violence, but the police. And that's very interesting, because the police stand for the defence of the past. When I was given the news, then there came in me (it was said very, very clearly, a very clear vision): the future. It's the higher Power COMPELLING people to do what they must do. Between now and that (which is a long way ahead), there must be the power of an IMMOBILE number. And the vision was very clear: if millions—not thousands, millions—of people assemble and occupy the place absolutely peacefully (simply assemble and occupy the place, naturally with representatives who will say what they like), then it will have power. But there must be no violence; as soon as one indulges in violence, it's the return to the past and the open door to all conflicts. At the time, I didn't know it was the police that had started the violence; I didn't know, I wasn't aware of the details of the events. But it was a very clear vision: an occupation by the mass, but a mass all-powerful in its immobility, imposing its will through sheer numbers, with intellectual representatives for negotiations.

... It's clearly (not in the detail of it, but in the direction of the movement), clearly a will to have done with the past and to open the door to the future.

It's like a sort of revulsion with stagnation. That's it. A thirst for something which is ahead and appears more luminous, better. And indeed there Is something—it's not just imagination: there IS something. That's the beauty of it, it's that there Is something. There Is a Response. There Is a Force that wants ... to express itself.

France is in a privileged situation: India first and France afterwards, for reasons of ... simply of receptivity. France has always tried to be ahead—which in fact is why this body was born there.

(After a silence) The newspapers speak of a strike by several million people there. It doesn't look like a strike at all, it looks like a revolution.

... Now, the state of the earth would seem to be precisely such that at the very least what is being prepared (if it's not yet actually like that) is the manifestation of the mass in a kind of silent and immobile And that's an intermediate period to reach the condition in which this mass will be held under the control and directly driven by the Power from above.

That's where we are heading.

Mother's Agenda: May 22, 1968