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\n\n\n
\n

\nThe Mother on Corrections <\/font><\/p>\n

\nin Savitri<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/font><\/p>\n

\nAn interview with Amal Kiran on 8 June 1999 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n

\n\t\t\t\t\tAccording to your book<\/i>
\n\t\t\t\t\tOur Light and Delight [p. 23], the Mother once told you, "I won’t allow you to change even a comma in<\/i> Savitri." Is this true?<\/i> <\/font>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\nAMAL: Yes, but she meant I could not change
\nanything according to my own ideas. After that I made it clear to her that
\ncorrections would be only according to Sri Aurobindo’s latest version. Some
\nwords had been misread and I had suggested what might be the right reading. But
\nwe would not dare to change anything on our own. I told her this. And Mother
\nquite understood the situation. "That’s a different matter," she said. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n     So she approved of my
\nmaking my suggestions, and many of them were found to be correct when the
\nmanuscripts were checked. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n     Have you written about
\nthis anywhere?<\/i> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nAMAL: Part of it is there in Our Light and
\nDelight.<\/i> To any-one who reads it carefully, the Mother’s attitude towards
\nthe correction of copying mistakes and such things should be clear enough. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n     But most of the
\nconversation recorded there [Our Light and Delight,<\/i> pp. 23-25] is not
\nabout such corrections at all. It is about a statement I wanted to include in
\nthe Publisher’s Note. I wanted to say that certain passages in Parts II and III
\nhad not received Sri Aurobindo’s final revision. The Mother’s strong reaction to
\nthis has been quoted as if it showed that she was against correcting copying
\nmistakes or typographical errors in Savitri.<\/i> But she never objected to
\ncorrections of that kind. <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage-5<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nNaturally she wanted Sri Aurobindo’s own words to
\nbe printed in Savitri,<\/i> not a version with words accidentally substituted
\nby others. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n     Later, the Mother even
\naccepted the substance of what I had wanted to write in the Publisher’s Note.
\nShe agreed to have it included in the Note before the letters at the end of the
\n1954 edition. It was only something in my attitude that had provoked her
\nreaction. This was her way of working. It brought about a great change in me. <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nExtracts from Our Light and Delight<\/i>
\nby Amal Kiran<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/font><\/p>\n

\n. .. when the second volume of the first edition of
\nSavitri<\/i> was under preparation, a sadhak had stressed to the Mother the
\ndanger of sending the proofs to me. The Mother seems even to have passed an
\norder against sending them. But Prithwisingh and Nirod made urgent
\nrepresentations to her, saying that it would be a great mistake not to let me
\nsee the proofs, for I had made very appropriate suggestions in the past, which
\nhad been found correct when the typed copy had been compared with the original
\nmanuscript. So the Mother cancelled her order but left, of course, the final
\ndecision in the hands of Nolini and Nirod. [p.23] <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n"Mother," I said, "I am not wanting you to sanction
\nthe changing of commas and such things. All I want is that in some sort of
\nPublisher’s Note we should say that certain passages in Parts II and III did not
\nreceive final revision: otherwise critics will think that they are what Sri
\nAurobindo intended them finally to be." [p.24] <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSome time afterwards, when I was putting together
\nthe letters which Sri Aurobindo had written to me on Savitri<\/i> to serve as
\na supplement in the last part of the volume, I spoke to the Mother of an
\nintroductory note to them. She consented to listen to what I had a mind to
\nwrite. In that note most of the points which I had previously put to her but
\nwhich she had rejected came in <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nPage-6<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nagain, amidst some other matters. She approved of
\nall of them unconditionally. And when I proposed that this note might go as a
\nfootnote in small print she expressed her wish that it should go as a real
\nintroduction in its own right, [p. 27] <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nI have related elsewhere some other incidents
\nconnected with my editorial work on Savitri.<\/i> I may here mention the grand
\nfinale, as it were. After the last pages had been printed, the Mother calmly
\nannounced to me: "The Press is very displeased with you." I answered: "I know
\nit, Mother, and I am sorry I have troubled the Press. But are you displeased
\nwith my work?" She gave a faint smile and said: "No." [p. 212] <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

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