... January 20, 1973 ( On January 18, Mother received the Dalai Lama. It should be noted that Mother had long ago admitted a number of Tibetan refugees to the Ashram and Auroville. ) Anything to say? I'd be curious to know what you felt with the Dalai Lama? A truly benevolent man. Buddhist benevolence, you know, and he practices it marvelously. He... the Dalai Lama's visit. The Dalai Lama's questions were put to Mother by Kireet, the Registrar of the Centre of Education, who in turn conveyed Mother's answers back to the Dalai Lama. ) ( original English ) (Dalai Lama:) It is my dream to have the perfect economic development of Tibet, the perfect organization, the efficiency that we find in Communism, but all this based upon, founded upon... interesting because the action is very powerful, but I can't call it pleasant. But I have told you that already; I wrote it. 3 (Kireet:) Yes, Mother. The Mother has given the message. (Dalai Lama:) As for myself, I have no desire to continue in power in the Government. For I feel that the Government involves so much of conflicts of parties, and the necessity of taking sides with one party ...
... will attack India with the help or the complicity or the military resources of the United States. And at about the same time, China will attack India because of the Dalai Lama, under the pretext that India is supporting the Dalai Lama and that thousands of Tibetan refugees are escaping into India to carry on anti-Chinese activities. Then America will offer its support to India against China and then ...
... For surgery on Mercier's hernia there was a choice between Dr. Satyabrata Sen and JIPMER. The latter was approved. Katak's trip to Dharamshala to see the Dalai Lama was approved. Mother did not wish to give a message for the Dalai Lama. Mother gave blessings for Sachala, a child at the Ashram, who was seriously ill in the night. * * * 2.3.72 Mother was pleased to see and... spoken on Buddha and about himself, why he came, who he was. People should read these things and not confuse." Q. Do we have your blessings to go to Dharamshala to discuss this matter with the Dalai Lama and to prepare material for the film? (Mother did not reply) Mother gave a blessing packet in response to a letter about group meditation and the emergence of the group psychic being... was not objected to. * * * 16.1.73 Gloria's letter. Report of misconduct of two children. Mother said, "It is incredible!" * * * 17.1.73 The Dalai Lama arrives tomorrow. His programme in the Ashram and Auroville was read out. His seating arrangement, when he comes to Mother, was finalised. * * * Mother signed a note about some ...
... to wear kimonos while she was in Japan. 6. She came back from Japan in 1920.7. The Mother established the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in 1926. 8. The Mother met Rabindranath Tagore while in Japan. 9. Dalai Lama met the Mother in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in the sixties of the twentieth century. Etc. It is to be observed that in this case 'The Mother' remains the connecting link amongst all the different... continue to turn round her but the circle of divevergence has become very much smaller. Thus, in the just preceding third stage our thoughts touched in their wanderings Paris, lapan, Tagore and Dalai Lama, although all connected with the Mother in some way or other, but in this fourth stage all the thoughts main very close to "The Mother". For example, the flow of thoughts in the sadhaka' s mind ...
... It is this that I find disappointing. Why disappointing! If there is one in a hundred who has a true faith, it is already a miracle! I have been reading the autobiography of the present Dalai Lama. Is there any truth in the legend of the Dalai Lama's rebirth and discovery? At one time I knew their legend, but now I have forgotten it. So I can say nothing about it, except this general ...
... and your signature. Is my handwriting all right? Yes, it's quite good, Mother, it came out very well. ( Mother goes into contemplation ) (Sujata:) Mother, you are going to see the Dalai Lama tomorrow, aren't you? Satprem would be very interested to know your impression—what you have felt. What day is tomorrow? (Sujata:) Thursday, Mother. On Saturday then? I'll tell you if ...
... Modern European scholars are now trying to prove that Budddha's life-story was a later invention. PURANI: The Tibetan Lamas are believed to be in a direct line from Buddha. But to find the true Dalai Lama is not easy at all. You know about the various signs by which he has to be recognised? SATYENDRA: Is Zen Buddhism alive in Japan? SRI AUROBINDO: Oh yes. Lady Batesman is going there to study ...
... questions of international relationship prevented the full condemnation that was due. All the same, the true Indian in Nehru came to the fore when in spite of Mao's fury he threw India wide open to the Dalai Lama and his fellow-refugees. The political asylum offered to them was never withdrawn and the principle of it never abjured. Mao did not forgive Nehru this assertion of the right of individuals to maintain ...
... meddling in our affairs,”’ she warned. 11 But V.V. Giri went to see her, shortly after becoming president, as did the vice-president, as did Karan Singh, the former Maharajah of Kashmir, as did the Dalai Lama. And so did Indira Gandhi, who in 1969 split the Congress into its more conservative wing and her more socially oriented forward wing. The relationship with Indira Gandhi was close, and the prime ...
... entirely new body, mind, etc. or that it is once again the old personality that renews itself. You can see in the case of the Lamas that it is not the same person. Purani gave an instance of how a Dalai Lama, as a boy, gave the correct details about a new hidden tea-bowl about which all others had forgotten. SRI AUROBINDO: I hear these Lamas die young. PURANI: About thirty or forty. SRI AUROBINDO: ...
... questions are impossible to answer in brief. Page 263 I know no books that say anything of value on the subject. My love and blessings. 2 June 1940 ( About the legend of the Dalai Lama's rebirth and discovery ) At one time I knew their legend, but now I have forgotten it, so I can say nothing about it, except this general statement—that man can imagine nothing that has not happened ...
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