The Mother

Agenda

Volume 9

March 23, 1968

(Satprem read Mother the end of the Playground Talk of June 3, 1953, about Karma: “In all religions, when people said that [the consequences of Karma were strict] and gave such absolute rules, as for me, I think it was to take the place of Nature and pull people's strings.... So then they panic, they get terrified... – they should just go to the next floor up. What should be given them is the key to open the door. The staircase has a door, and it needs a key. The key is a sufficiently sincere aspiration or a sufficiently intense prayer.... In both there is a magic power, one must know how to use it.... Some detest prayer (if they went to the bottom of their hearts, they would see it's out of pride). And there are those who have no aspiration, who try but can't aspire – that's because they don't have the flame of will, they don't have the flame of humility. Both are needed: to change one's Karma, one must have a very great humility and a very great will.”)

When did I say that?

In 1953.

Strange.

There's an IMMENSE sorrow behind, something very vast, very strong. It's strange.

Like an association with human sorrow.... It's strange.

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Later

I am going through decisive moments. But it's very difficult.

It's the transfer of the nervous system. I said that everything was being “transferred,” one thing after another; now, it's the nervous system. That's... very difficult. Very difficult.

I'll talk about it later.