India - the Mother

May 30, 1967

(Tension has been rising in the Middle East; Egypt's president Nasser has called for "the destruction of Israel." The Six-Day War will break out early June.)

Poor Israel...

Oh, it's disgusting! There's another disgusting story.

Oh, yes!... That business is trumped up from start to finish, and India—India ...

Bah!

India goes and gives her support to that fellow [Nasser]. It's sad. What they've done is a villainy.

I've got a letter from someone (not from Israel) who writes to me that there is such a spirit of brotherhood and collaboration in the country, so strong, the like of which he has never seen anywhere else.

Humanity is preparing to do very nasty things, it seems.

Yes. But that India, which ought to be the mouthpiece of something a little truer, should ... It's sickening, really.

Oh, that's because the natural tendency here is against the Muslims, so those who think they are superior say one should be above one's dislikes: "Let's be with them." (Mother laughs)

There's the logic of it.

(After a silence) They lick the boots of the Muslims.

Mother's Agenda: May 30, 1967