India - the Mother

May 8, 1971

(Regarding the worsening crisis in Bangladesh. Refugees are pouring into India, soon ten millions of them.)

... And I heard also that you said that if Indira didn't recognize Bangladesh, there would be even more serious consequences in the future.

That's what I think.

That's what you think, yes.

It becomes more difficult each time.

Each time they put the thing off ... Oh, if only they had done it immediately, it would have been very good. Now, it's five weeks already.

Yes, five weeks.

It's already more difficult. If they put it off again, it will be even more difficult.

Naturally, she thinks I don't have all the facts—that goes without saying!

She knows better than you, obviously! But if she had some little inner discernment, she would understand that you have a wider vision of things.

Yes, but that ...

You see, there are different ... (what shall I say?), it's like "layers of conditioning" (gesture of different levels), and I always try to lead people to the highest layer so that things happen without too much difficulty; but they always insist on being on the lowest layer, the nearest one. So that causes ... that's how things get complicated.... And so things have to follow the path (meandering gesture), and it's endless.

Well, it means the world isn't ready!

(After a silence) It will take another few hundred years.

... Humanity is still very small, very small, very small.

Yes, it feels like that.

But even those who might have a power ... Look how it is: certain people could have a power, they would just need to have the true inspiration—but they're afraid of it! They reject the true inspiration, because they think that things have to follow their "natural" course—so-called "natural."

Humanity rejects the true miracle. It only believes in ...

... They have chosen, they have chosen the path of the snail. So that's how it will be.

There are moments—what Sri Aurobindo called "the Hour of God"—there are moments when the TRUE, the true miracle is possible; if that moment is missed, then the world will go ... at its snail's pace.

And it's hard—a lot of suffering, a lot of complications.... But faith, who has faith? True faith.

[After a silence] But, Mother, I have a hope.

Yes?

I have a hope. There is something I feel as a strong possibility, more and more so.

What?

All the youth, those who are sixteen, seventeen or twenty now, who appear to be going completely mad, well, in reality, all those young people NO LONGER WANT the present Machine—they don't want it anymore. So they do foolish things ...

Oh! ...

They take drugs, they do all sorts of foolish things.

Oh, even worse than that, they've become murderers.⁷⁰

Yes, there are all sorts of things, but in spite of everything, I feel it's a good sign, that the movement is going to grow more and more and that the whole Machine of the men of yesterday is going to collapse—the social and political Machinery and all the rest.

Yes, you're quite right. But when it collapses, it will crush many things. That's the point; it's true, that's what is going to happen, but when it collapses it will crush many things.

... I have the feeling that all the so-called lost youth aren't lost at all! They only need to be given the true word.

Yes, but who's going to give it to them?... There has to be someone to say it.

Yes, there should be a Vivekananda for Sri Aurobindo! [Mother laughs, very amused.] ... That's what you should call for, Mother: a great inspired man.

Ah!

That's what you should call for.

But I have been calling him for a long time.

Yes, Mother, a great inspired man with physical strength

Yes, oh, yes!

(After a concentration, Mother returns to Bangladesh:) It's a world event. It's not the event of one country, it's a world event. And that's why ...

Mother's Agenda: May 8, 1971