Itinerary

These three utterings may appear incompatible to our mental intelligence, which requires an organizing logic as well as a degree of morality; and yet, Mother‟s actions regarding each and all of us have clearly shown their coexistence. It is only our attachment to our limitations – to the separation resulting from the ego – that prevents us from integrating their apparent contradiction. The period I evoke with this symbolic incident was actually very favourable to the progress of collective consciousness: we had no legal existence, we were “outlaws” and had no other recourse than to rely on Her Grace; thus we had to learn and define, for ourselves in our already evident diversity, a code of conduct which would be impersonal, faithful and receptive enough a reference not to betray our purpose, either by being irresponsible or by an excess of rigidity. In this regard, one could nowadays wonder: how did it come to pass that, from a simple code of conduct we have allowed such senseless proliferation of rules and regulations? But this has not taken place out of a happy choice: this thorny and often discouraging undergrowth has two sources: one is our gradual loss of trust in one another and the second is the imposition by the Government of India of very restrictive rules, particularly as regards “foreigners”. And it is quite likely that we have not sought hard enough for their respective resolutions.

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