India - the Mother

September 7, 1963

It's much easier to answer out-and-out materialists who are convinced and sincere ("sincere" within the limit of their consciousness, that is) than to answer people who have a religion! Much easier.

With Indians, it's very easy—they're heaven-blessed, these people, because it takes very little for them to be oriented in the right way. ³⁷ But there are two types of difficult religion, the Christian religion (especially in the form of Protestantism), and the Jewish religion.³⁸

The Jews are also out-and-out materialists : you die, well, you die, it's over. Though I haven't quite understood how they reconcile that with their God, who moreover is Unthinkable and must not be named ... but who, seen from the standpoint of a vaster truth, seems (I am not sure), seems to be an Asura. Because it's an almighty and ONLY God, foreign to the world —the world (as far as I know) and He are two completely different things.

It's the same with Catholicism.... Their God made the world out of nothingness?

That's right.

Then it's the same problem, the same difficulty. It's quite simply incomprehension.

And in fact he sent his son to "save the world."

Then his son doesn't belong to the creation?

He is the son of God—not so the others.

He is the ONLY son of God?

Yes, of course!

They've twisted everything.

There's nothing to be done with religious people.

No. And it's not good to try either. If they cling to a religion, it means that that religion has helped them somehow or other, has helped something in them which in fact wanted to have a certitude without having to seek for it—to lean on something solid without being responsible for its solidity (someone else is responsible! [Mother laughs]), and to leave their bodies in that way. So to want to pull them out of it shows a lack of compassion—they should just be left where they are. Never do I argue with someone who has a faith—let him keep his faith! And I take great care not to say anything that might shake his faith because it's not good—such people are unable to have another faith.

Mother's Agenda: September 7, 1963