India - the Mother

November 23, 1963

Kennedy has been assassinated, that means the possibility of war.

He was one of the instruments for the establishment of peace —it's a setback for the entire political history of the earth.

But probably, it means basically that things weren't ready: some parts would have been overlooked.

But I had been told this a few weeks ago, last month, while I was conducting a general survey. I heard someone who said ("someone" is a manner of speaking, I know who it is): "Kennedy won't be able to do it." I thought the instrument was too small, I didn't think of this.

And then five of our air force chiefs have been killed in a helicopter crash—helicopters never crash, and they were the best possible pilots. It's an act of sabotage—the Communists are doing a lot of sabotage. So that makes two accidents in a row.

... Anyway, there we are, we have only to wait, endure, and broaden more and more.... What lends force to the opposition is superstitious ignorance—superstitious in the sense of a sort of faith or at least of belief in Destiny, in Fate. It's ingrained, as if woven into the human substance. They have the same superstition, the same superstitious belief in what is favourable to them as in what is unfavourable, in the divine Power as in the adverse power—it's the SAME attitude. And that's why the divine Power doesn't have its full force, and also precisely why the adverse force has so much power over them, because it's absolutely a movement of Falsehood, of Ignorance—of total Ignorance.

... So there is the good destiny and the bad destiny; there is a divine force which one regards as something entirely beyond understanding, whose designs and aims are perfectly inexplicable, and the submission, the surrender consists in accepting—blindly—all that happens. One's nature revolts, but revolts against an Absolute against which it is helpless. And all of that is Ignorance. Not one of all those movements is true—from the most intense revolt to the blindest submission, it's all false, not one true movement.

I don't know if it's in Sri Aurobindo's writings (I don't remember), but I hear very strongly (not for me, for mankind):

AWAKE AND WILL

Naturally men take "will" for their own whims, which have nothing to do with a will—they're all impulses.

"To will" means "to will with the supreme Will." And it's as if it were the key that opens the door to the future:

AWAKE AND WILL

But beware of willing the wrong way because that's no longer a will, it's a whim—don't confuse the two. Will with the supreme Will.

We shouldn't hunch our shoulders—it makes us grumble terribly within ourselves and it's useless.

Oh, (Mother holds up her head) that feeling of the head rising above all that, of emerging above ...

And even this body, which has been worked on and kneaded for years ... It's in the subconscient of the body. And so that was the answer, it was said to the body:

AWAKE AND WILL

Mother's Agenda: November 23, 1963