After The Mother's death, all of Satprem's correspondence from 1962 to 1973 with The Mother was confiscated, and he fled with the tapes of
The Agenda to
Auroville, where, at the age of 50, he edited the 13 volumes of
The Agenda while at the same time writing the trilogy
Mère (
Mother) -
Le Matérialisme Divin (
The Divine Materialism), ''L'Espèce Nouvelle
(The New Species
), La Mutation de la Mort
(The Mutation of Death
) - both a biography of the Mother and his own analyses and commentary on The Agenda'' material. Satprem became a rallying point for the community shocked by the attitude the ashram leaders had taken. His one-man revolt against the Ashram leadership began in 1974, and involved two issues. One was his wish to publish, unexpurgated, the entire transcript of his talks with the Mother. He saw the resistance of the ashram trustees and elders in this regard as symptomatic of the way they had directed the ashram from 1962 onwards. The other was his claim that under the current leadership the Yoga had become institutionalised and dogmatic, like the yogas of the past. For their part, the elders wished to publish the transcripts, but only in edited form. And where Satprem saw conservatism and dogmatism, they saw a loyal commitment to their gurus to uphold the original truth of their teachings. During this time, Satprem was looked to by the French-speaking Aurovillians as the successor and inheritor of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother's work, and a number of radicals were drawn to him because of his revolt against the ashram elders. After numerous unsuccessful attempts to get the 13 volumes of
The Agenda published by the ashram, Auroville, and Sri Aurobindo Society presses, Satprem founded the
Institut de Recherches Évolutives (Institute for Evolutionary Research) in Paris in July 1977 as a non-profit organisation to do so." Soon after, there was an allegation of an assassination attempt against him in August 1976, and in December 1977 (or 1978) the ashram trustees "expelled" him for "anti-ashram activities" as he attempted to publish
The Agenda, and he became
persona non grata in the ashram. Satprem and Sujata left
Puducherry in 1978. In 1980 Satprem wrote
Le Mental des Cellules (
The Mind of the Cells), a synopsis and introduction of the whole of
The Agenda, focusing on the Mother's attempt to make the cells responsive to a supramental force, so their inner programming could be altered so as not to automatically fall into illness, decay, and death–the ultimate physical goal of Sri Aurobindo's Integral (Purna) Yoga. In 1982 all 13 volumes of
The Agenda were published in French, and Satprem felt he had completed all his external work. The following year, he and Sujata decided to withdraw completely from public life to devote themselves exclusively to Sri Aurobindo's and The Mother's work of the transformation of the cellular consciousness of the
body and realisation of the new evolution, and the search for the "great passage" in the evolution beyond Man. The 1985 book
La Vie sans Mort (
Life without Death) is a follow-up to
Mind of the Cells, co-written with Luc Venet, and provides a glimpse of Satprem in his post-Ashram life in this period. After seven years, Satprem emerged and began producing a steady stream of books on his experiences, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother's teachings, and the future evolution of Man. In 1989, he wrote
La Révolte de la Terre (
The Revolt of the Earth), in which he describes his years "digging" in the body. This was followed in 1992 by
Evolution II, where he asks "After Man, who? But the question is: After Man, how?" In 1994 came his ''Lettres d'un Insoumis
(Letters of a Rebel
), two volumes of autobiographical correspondence. In 1995, he wrote La Tragédie de la Terre - de Sophocle à Sri Aurobindo
(The Tragedy of the Earth - from Sophocles to Sri Aurobindo
), an urgent message for mankind to take action against the cycle of death. This was followed in 1998 by La Clef des Contes
(The Key of Tales
), and in 1999 by "Néanderthal Regarde”(“Neanderthal Looks On”), an essay on the betrayal of Man in India as in the West. In 2000 followed La Légende de l'Avenir
(The Legend of the Future
) and in 2002 Mémoires d'un Patagonien - Conte Préhistorique et Posthistorique
(Memoires of a Patagonian - Prehistoric and Posthistoric Tale
) and La Philosophie de l'Amour
(The Philosophy of Love
). In 2008, the IRE published his last book, L'Oiseau Doël
(The Doël Bird''). In 1999, Satprem also started the publication of his ''Carnets d'un Apocalypse
/Notebooks of an Apocalypse'' (in French, seven volumes published to date, in English only the first volume, 1973-1978, dealing with the years and his experiences immediately after the passing of The Mother), which records his work in the depths of the body consciousness. ==Death==