India - the Mother

September 7, 1966

(Mother is facing severe financial difficulties.)

We have an awesome budget; we have the budget of a small village—no, a small town. It's a budget of twenty-six lakhs of rupees a year, you understand. And then, all those who used to give me money (people who had businesses and so on) have been ruined by the government's wonderful actions. So they can't give me any more. They give what they can, they are very nice, they make great efforts, but ...

The only ones who could give me money are the scoundrels! (Mother laughs) They have plenty of money, stolen from everywhere, but they don't want to give it!

It doesn't matter, it'll only last for a time.

There is a sort of wind blowing, like a gust of great confusion; a very dark confusion totally deprived of intelligence. Discernment, clear-sightedness, even enlightened common sense, seem to have disappeared everywhere. It's a phase to go through.

Mother's Agenda: September 7, 1966