{"id":5783,"date":"2013-07-13T02:04:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=5783"},"modified":"2013-07-13T02:04:08","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:04:08","slug":"090-august-16-1972-vol-13-volume-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/03-agenda\/13-volume-13\/090-august-16-1972-vol-13-volume-13","title":{"rendered":"-090_August 16_1972.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"

August 16, 1972<\/H3>
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(Today is the day after Sri Aurobindo’s centenary. Hordes of<\/i>

 people
\nline up in Mother’s corridors.)<\/i>
\n

This morning I am seeing two hundred people … two hundred!<\/p>\n

How was it yesterday?<\/i><\/p>\n

I’d rather not say anything because….
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According to what I had heard before, [[Conversation of August 2 (the two rival "formations"). ]] according to that, it was a big victory. But nothing was visible. I didn’t say anything to anybody. Even so, several people felt it was the beginning of something.
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It’s a long story…. Some adverse forces had banded together and decided that I was going to die yesterday. And it was true, it happened, there was an attack. In that sense a real victory took place at the balcony. But it was invisible.
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Now if this … (what’s the word?) this "news" is true, if it continues to be true, I should last till … I’ll be this way (gesture in suspense or between two positions) <\/i>till my centenary, that is, 1978, then (still assuming this voice is true), the supramental transformation of the body will begin.
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Is it true? I have no idea. That’s what I was told.
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I have no idea.
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I am like this (hands offered upward).<\/i>
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(silence)<\/i>
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Can my body follow? That’s the question.
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My body is constantly like this (same gesture): <\/i>what You will, Lord, what You will…. But it must nevertheless undergo a transformation.
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And you, what did you feel yesterday?<\/p>\n

I can’t really say, Mother. There was too much turmoil in the<\/i><\/p>\n

 atmosphere. [[Ten thousand people in a carnival atmosphere amidst incense sticks and stalls reminiscent of Lourdes. Not to mention the "embellishments" to the Samadhi, the "embellishments" to Sri Aurobindo’s room, whose floor – where he had walked so much that he had left on it the imprint of his footsteps – has been covered with glue and blue linoleum. ]] <\/i>\n <\/p>\n

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Oh, yes!<\/p>\n

Difficult to say…. Sri Aurobindo’s Presence, of course.<\/i><\/p>\n

Oh, yes! Ohh, very strongly….
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(long silence)<\/i>
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I am like this (same gesture, hands open).<\/i>
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(Mother plunges in
one can hear the humming of
the crowd outside and loudspeakers)<\/i>
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They told me I had to see two hundred people this morning – two hundred. This morning.<\/p>\n

Thank God you exist, Mother!<\/i><\/p>\n

Mon petit … (Mother takes Satprem’s hands).<\/i>
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Next month it’ll be better, we’ll have more peace.
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We’ll have more peace….
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