India - the Mother

May 25, 1970

(Two days later, Mother had a conversation with a few disciples on the same subject.)

What must be done to pull the country out of its difficulty? Sri Aurobindo had foreseen all the troubles and given the solution.... It is to organize the country beyond politics. And that is the only way. In politics there is only fight and ugly fight—ugly. And it has become so bad.

He was telling me always that things would become worse and worse, because it is the end of this age. We are entering into an age when things must be organized differently.

Because we know what will come, we can help to make it come sooner and with less turmoil. There is no hope in going backward; it would make things last endlessly. We must go forward, absolutely, and go beyond, beyond party.... It is time for transformation. We can't cling to the past.... If people could understand and realize his programme, the country could be very strong, very strong.

... Politics is always limited by party, by ideas, by duties also—unless we prepare a government that has no party, a government that admits all ideas because it is above parties. Party is a limitation; it is like a box: you go into the box (Mother laughs). Of course, if there were people with the courage to be in the government without a party—"We represent no party! We represent India"—that would be magnificent.

... All this turmoil is because the country must take the lead, must rise above all these old political habits. Government without party. Oh, it would be magnificent.

Words of the Mother - III: 25 May 1970