{"id":5790,"date":"2013-07-13T02:04:10","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=5790"},"modified":"2013-07-13T02:04:10","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:04:10","slug":"100-october-7-1972-vol-13-volume-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/03-agenda\/13-volume-13\/100-october-7-1972-vol-13-volume-13","title":{"rendered":"-100_October 7_1972.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><H3>October 7, 1972<\/H3><br \/>\n<P>And your eyes?<\/p>\n<p><i>I can&#8217;t stop the work; everything is programmed I&#8217;m not<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;worried<br \/>\n  &#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P align=\"center\"><i>(Satprem reads to Mother some passages from the <\/i><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><i>conversation of August 30 for the next<\/i><P align=\"center\"><i>&nbsp;&quot;Notes<br \/>\nOn the Way.&quot;)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>That&#8217;s all ?<\/p>\n<p><i>Will it do, Mother? &#8230; I&#8217;ve cut quite a few things out, but do <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>you think what&#8217;s left is all right?<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>It&#8217;s very personal.<\/p>\n<p><i>I&#8217;ve cut a lot already; but, you see, if you remove all the<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;personal<br \/>\n  parts, nothing much remains&#8230;.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P><i>(Laughing)<\/i> Nothing at all remains!<\/p>\n<p><i>For instance, when I answer your question about whether I <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>still use the thinking process, I don&#8217;t consider myself a<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;&quot;person,&quot; I&#8217;m simply a human &quot;representative&quot; whose answer<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;may enlighten others. It may help other people.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>Oh, certainly!<\/p>\n<p><i>But that&#8217;s all I have for the <\/i>Bulletin<i>, I have nothing else.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>It&#8217;s enough! The November issue is always thinner anyway.<\/p>\n<p><i>Yes, but also you don&#8217;t say much. You haven&#8217;t spoken much<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;about<br \/>\n  your experience lately.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>I can&#8217;t speak. Besides, I have nothing to say<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 293<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><i>!!!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>What&#8217;s here is just&#8230;. It&#8217;s like this <i>(gesture of offering, hands open)<\/i>. Truly that&#8217;s how it is, I have nothing to say.<br \/>\n<P>A possible formulation would be: constantly, constantly as if on one hand I were telling the Lord, &quot;What do You want me to do?&quot;, and on the other hand&#8230;.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(silence<\/i><P align=\"right\"><i>&nbsp;eyes closed<\/i><P align=\"right\"><i>&nbsp;hands<br \/>\nopened<\/i><P align=\"right\"><i>&nbsp;in total surrender)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>Yes, like that.<br \/>\n<P>The sensation is one of being as &#8230; as transparent and impersonal as possible so the Divine can pass through and act. And here <i>(pointing to the forehead), <\/i>it&#8217;s completely silent &#8230; just this <i>(gesture, hands open and immobile). <\/i>That&#8217;s all. My whole life is that way.<br \/>\n<P>The more the body is able to do this <i>(same gesture), <\/i>the better its conditions of life. Truly. I mean &#8230;&quot; solicitude&quot; isn&#8217;t the word, we would need a special word &#8230;. In English, I could say: <i>The care the Divine takes of my body<\/i> &#8230; (you understand?) is &#8230; beyond all description. And above all beyond all the body&#8217;s physical shortcomings.<br \/>\n<P>There you are.<br \/>\n<P>But all words belittle &#8211; they belittle ridiculously.<br \/>\n<P>I&#8217;d like to stop talking.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(meditation)<\/i><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 294<\/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>October 7, 1972 And your eyes? 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