{"id":5677,"date":"2013-07-13T02:03:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=5677"},"modified":"2013-07-13T02:03:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:03:35","slug":"162-april-25-1973-vol-13-volume-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/03-agenda\/13-volume-13\/162-april-25-1973-vol-13-volume-13","title":{"rendered":"-162_April 25_1973.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><H3>April 25, 1973<\/H3><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><i>(For the last ten days, all the meetings have been spent<\/i><P align=\"center\"><i>&nbsp;in<br \/>\ncontemplation.)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>How are you getting on?<\/p>\n<p><i>It&#8217;s not easy.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>No &#8211; it&#8217;s more than difficult&#8230;. I am sorry, I thought I was suffering for everybody &#8211; but I see it isn&#8217;t the case.<br \/>\n<P><i>(silence) <\/i>What would you like?<\/p>\n<p><i>I&#8217;d like you to keep me.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>Yes, but materially? You mean keep you like now?<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(Mother takes Satprem&#8217;s hands<\/i><P align=\"right\"><i>&nbsp;and<br \/>\nprepares to meditate)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Yes, Mother.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>Are you comfortable?<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 404<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><i>Yes, Mother, very!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>You shouldn&#8217;t have any ache anywhere.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(Mother plunges in for half an hour, <\/i><br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>then suddenly moans<\/i><P align=\"right\"><i>&nbsp;[[Coincidentally,<br \/>\nMother&#8217;s former assistant, who has a cancer, enters the room at this moment. ]]<br \/>\n)<\/i><br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>Sometimes, I feel like howling.<\/i><br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(silence)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>What do you feel?<\/p>\n<p><i>Like a fire melting into your Fire &#8211; into what you are.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>But what do you feel?<\/p>\n<p><i>I don&#8217;t know &#8211; the great Power.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>Why do I feel like howling?<\/p>\n<p><i>Well, I wonder if it&#8217;s not me giving you pain.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>No, mon petit! All the time I feel like that &#8211; it&#8217;s not you, not at all.<br \/>\n<P>Something &#8230; It isn&#8217;t really painful, it&#8217;s just &#8230; I think &#8211; I think it&#8217;s something so new that the body is frightened. That&#8217;s the only explanation I see. I start howling, but &#8230; it&#8217;s no use &#8211; the only thing to do is stop howling and change.<br \/>\n<P>Something which &#8230;<br \/>\n<P>Yes, that must be it: something so new that the body doesn&#8217;t &#8230; know how to take it.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(silence)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>You don&#8217;t perceive anything in particular?<\/p>\n<p><i>No, Mother, what I feel is first that great Flame merging with<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;yours,<br \/>\n  and then a kind of vast immobility &#8211; a powerful immo<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>bility.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>Ah, that&#8217;s it! That must be why! Yes, the body must be getting alarmed. Yes, that must be it.<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 405<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><P align=\"right\"><i>(Mother plunges in,<\/i><br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>Champaklal rings the bell)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>Is it time? &#8230; Oh, mon petit&#8230;.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(Satprem rests his head on Mother&#8217;s knees)<\/i><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 406<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 25, 1973 (For the last ten days, all the meetings have been spent&nbsp;in contemplation.) How are you getting on? It&#8217;s not easy. 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