India - the Mother

May 23, 1970

The country seems to be falling apart, so there [in Delhi] they asked me what should be done. I told them ... that the ONLY salvation for the country, the ONLY thing that can unify it, is to adopt Sri Aurobindo's ideal for the country—he had a plan, he very clearly saw how the country should be organized, he said it to me. It's there, if one reads his books seriously, one can see it.... So I said ... that the whole country should know Sri Aurobindo's thought and will. And his Centenary [in 1972] is an excellent opportunity. They asked me, "What's the way out of this chaos?"... The difficulty is to find upright people. So they need to be educated—they don't even have a NOTION of how one can be! In what Sri Aurobindo wrote, they will find all they need to organize the country, and much better, I tell them, infinitely better than what I may say, because he knew the country infinitely better than I do, and the mental formation and everything.

Mother's Agenda: May 23, 1970