India - the Mother

November 30, 1966

Men are really imbeciles: what they don't understand they hate. Instead of saying, "I don't understand this, so I won't bother about it, that's all," no, they hate it! They want to destroy it.

There is clearly a great movement.... Yesterday again I saw a man who was governor of Madras for a while. He came here and asked me, "Is there a solution?" And he added, "We are all praying that you may give it." I answered (Mother smiles) that I had nothing to do with politics. But he represents a whole category of people in India who now think that there is indeed only one solution, which is precisely an attempt to realize a higher life.

Mother's Agenda: November 30, 1966