Mother You said so ...

22 October 1957

In the evening when I went to The Mother, She said:

‘When you are outwardly weak, that is to say, when your vital is weak, you always like thunder, fight and furious things. On the contrary, if you have a strong vital, you like sweetness and tenderness. Now to keep the balance, these opposite movements are quite necessary. It certainly takes time to be absolutely perfect'.

‘You see, sometimes the same nature has opposite movements. For example, there was a king ¹ in France, who was very cruel and unkind to others, while he loved his white kitten very dearly—more than himself. He never hesitated to kill people and shed their blood, but if something happened to his kitten, he started shedding tears.'

Note:

The Mother's talk reminded me of another cruel king: Nero. He had the city of Rome set on fire and watched the conflagration from his terrace. Wanting to show how sad he was, he asked an attendant to bring him a phial. He shed a few tears in it and gave it back to the servant. Then he went into his chambers, fetched a harp, came back on the terrace and played on his instrument claiming to draw an inspiration from the leaping flames.

Nero had no redeeming qualities. He loved nothing but himself