The consciousness of the cells is being taught to break free of 'false matter' with resultant effect in every country and continent, and every branch of human knowledge.
A fire spread across the world that year, from Warsaw to Colombia, from Nanterre to Alexandria: "There are long periods when things are being prepared, and a moment comes when something happens; and this something is what will bring about a new development in the world. Like the moments when man appeared on earth; now it is another being." This is the second turning point of Mother's Yoga. She is 90. Auroville has just been founded: "A center for accelerated evolution." Martin Luther King is assassinated, and Robert Kennedy. Russia invades Czechoslovakia - what is going on? "I have the strong impression of an attempt to make us learn something like the secret of the functioning [of man, of the earth]. The method we have learned is constantly shown to be false, it doesn't conform to reality, and there is a will to make us find the true method, but through experience." As if the earth were shut in a bowl, prisoner of a "false matter": "There is a sort of web over the entire earth, and the body is being taught how to get out of it.... Little by little the consciousness of the cells is breaking that hold." And on the other side of the web all of a sudden: "Never in my whole life have I seen or felt anything so beautiful!.... The most marvellous hours ever possible on earth - why do people go looking up above for something which is right here!" The short-lived miracle of 1968 seems to be swallowed up, while the walls of our bowl are slowly but inexorably being shattered in every country, every continent and every branch of human knowledge. "A considerable amount of time would still seem necessary for everything to be ready to change. And yet, there is almost a promise that a sudden change is going to take place." Could it be that, one fine morning, one last pressure of circumstances will throw us headlong into a new consciousness?
Did you see P.L.? How did you find him?
He's nervously quite shaken, quite exhausted.
Don't you think they did some magic on him?
That's quite my impression.
Ah, you too.... As for me, I very much feel they did magic so he wouldn't be able to speak to the Pope.
For the moment, he's very exhausted.
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Yes, they've drained him.
It started with a mental attack—every possible doubt: Sri Aurobindo is "like Saint Augustine"; Mother is "like Virgin Mary," it's "the same thing." A mental attack, anyway. After that, he became unable to eat: every time he ate, he would vomit. Then he had fits of hysteria: convulsions, foaming at the mouth, and a kind of half madness.
Bah, bah!
Because he wrote to the Pope... Here's what happened: he wrote to the Pope asking him for an audience, but that letter never reached the Pope.
Oh!
It fell into the hands of the "Chief of Correspondence," who probably sent it to the "Indian department" of the Vatican to find out what that Ashram was.... And he was never allowed to see the Pope. Eight days later, those attacks started coming. And after another eight days, they told him, "Oh, you're too ill, you can't meet the Pope. You're 'out of it.'"
Now they're on their guard over there.
But with what he told me, I caught the Vatican's atmosphere.... It's something frightful, a mafia with bands hating each other, lying in wait for the Pope's disappearance, not daring to say anything: those who are for the Pope dare not say anything because they think, "When the Pope dies, Ill need his enemies to be elected in his place." They all keep thinking about his succession. So no one wants to be the other's enemy and each watches the other. It's a frightful atmosphere.
Since he gave that letter for the Pope, I've been seeing constant attacks here, constant.
These people are dangerous.
And there's a serious fact I learned from P.L. You know that the Pope was operated on a year ago....
What for?
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For the prostate. And in fact, it's cancer.
Oh!... So they're expecting him to die....
And they don't like him. P.L. told me, "At the Vatican, they don't like him." They say he is "the son of a journalist, a chap who wants to cause a sensation." That's how they judge him at the Vatican.
(Mother remains concentrated for a long time)
Was the Pope operated on before or after he came to India?
After, I think.
Then Mother remains in contemplation till the end:
I have no inclination to speak.... But it's a continuous work, day and night, day and night.... "One" seems to have set off something rather formidable.1
Nothing to say?
One wonders how all this Vatican business is going to turn out?
All that they want is to keep things as they are. Their whole will is to prevent things from moving.... Unfortunately, it's easier to prevent things from moving than to make them move.
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