{"id":5622,"date":"2013-07-13T02:03:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=5622"},"modified":"2013-07-13T02:03:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:03:17","slug":"001-january-1-1972-vol-13-volume-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/03-agenda\/13-volume-13\/001-january-1-1972-vol-13-volume-13","title":{"rendered":"-001_January 1_1972.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><H3>January 1, 1972<\/H3><br \/>\n<P>Happy New Year, mon petit!<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><i>(Mother takes Satprem&#8217;s hands. He offers her a<\/i><P align=\"center\"><i>&nbsp;&quot;Divine<br \/>\nLove.&quot; [[Pomegranate flower. ]] She then distributes some presents.)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>You saw Indira&#8217;s letter, I showed it to you&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><i>Yes, Mother, I noted it down.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>They&#8217;re becoming conscious up there, some very interesting things are happening.<\/p>\n<p><i>You mean at the Center, in Delhi?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>No, at the front, in Bangladesh. That fellow who returned from America [[This certainly refers to Bhutto who had gone to America as Pakistan&#8217;s Minister of Foreign Affairs and was called back last month to be nominated President of Pakistan. ]]  says he doesn&#8217;t want to end the war &#8211; we&#8217;ll see&#8230;. But we&#8217;re plainly heading for the breakup of Pakistan.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(long silence)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>The Force is working very strongly, it&#8217;s very very strong. And you, how is it going?<\/p>\n<p><i>Trustingly.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>Ah, good! That&#8217;s all we need. All we need.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(silence)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>The power of &quot;that&quot; is stupendous. But human bodies aren&#8217;t used to it, so it&#8217;s hard for them to bear it. But that doesn&#8217;t matter.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(Mother takes Satprem&#8217;s hands<\/i><P align=\"right\"><i>&nbsp;meditation)<\/i><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 21<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><P>&nbsp;<P align=\"center\"><i>(Message of January 1)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Without the Divine, we are limited, incompetent and helpless beings; with the Divine, if we give ourselves entirely to Him, all is possible and our progress is limitless.<\/p>\n<p>A special help has come onto the earth for Sri Aurobindo&#8217;s centenary year; let us take advantage of it to overcome the ego and emerge into the light.<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year.<\/p>\n<p><P align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\"><font size=\"2\">Page 22<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 1, 1972 Happy New Year, mon petit! (Mother takes Satprem&#8217;s hands. He offers her a&nbsp;&quot;Divine Love.&quot; [[Pomegranate flower. ]] She then distributes some presents.)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-13-volume-13","wpcat-140-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}