India - the Mother

October 24, 1962

(For years the Indian government had followed a pro-Chinese policy, closing its eyes to the invasion of Tibet and making repeated overtures to China. On October 20, without provocation, India suffered an offensive on the eastern and western sectors of her Himalayan border; in the following days Chinese troops moved rapidly into India. On the 26th, a state of emergency will be declared.)

[Satprem :] Do you think there's going to be war?

They're already fighting.

(After a silence) I had the vision of conflagration that always heralds war for me : I had it three or four days before they began fighting. But it lasted only for a very short time, it came to an end very quickly.

We shall see.

Very violent and very rapid.

Mother's Agenda: October 24, 1962