{"id":5644,"date":"2013-07-13T02:03:24","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=5644"},"modified":"2013-07-13T02:03:24","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:03:24","slug":"104-october-21-1972-vol-13-volume-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/03-agenda\/13-volume-13\/104-october-21-1972-vol-13-volume-13","title":{"rendered":"-104_October 21_1972.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><br \/>\n<H3>October 21, 1972<\/H3><br \/>\n<P>Look how lovely!<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(Mother gives Satprem a white lotus)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>And you, Mother, how are you?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P align=\"right\"><i>(after a long silence)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>You see, I would either have to describe every single thing that keeps happening, or say nothing at all.<br \/>\n<P>When I say nothing and just stay like this <i>(gesture, open hands) <\/i>&#8230; in an attitude of absolute <i>surrender, <\/i>things go on well. But if the SLIGHTEST thing pulls me out of it, I feel &#8230; as if I were about to die.<br \/>\n<P>Extraordinary.<br \/>\n<P>When I am in that position, I get the feeling that &#8230; life is eternal.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(silence)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>And when I come out of it, there&#8217;s a horrible discomfort. That&#8217;s my condition.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(silence)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>Well, what do you want?<\/p>\n<p><i>What you want.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P align=\"right\"><i>(Mother plunges in till the end)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>No news? Tell me whatever you like.<\/p>\n<p><i>David, the young Italian who made a documentary on Sri  <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Aurobindo, now wants to film &quot;The Gold Washer.&quot; But he  <\/i>\n  <\/p>\n<p><i>wants to do it in the true spirit, with your help, showing how it<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;inevitably leads to Sri Aurobindo and you.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>Oh, very good! Very good.<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 299<\/font><P align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 21, 1972 Look how lovely! (Mother gives Satprem a white lotus) And you, Mother, how are you? (after a long silence) You see, I&#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-5644","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\/5644","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=5644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}