(Letter to Mother from Satprem)<\/i>
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Pondicherry, April 20, 1956<\/i>
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Sweet Mother,
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The difficulties of the past weeks have taught me that as soon as one strays from the true consciousness, in however trifling a way, anything may happen, any excess, any aberration, any imbalance – and I have felt very dangerous things prowling about me. Mother, you told me in regard to Patrick[[A friend of Satprem’s who died insane in a Japanese hospital in India. ]] that the law of the manifestation was a law of freedom, even the freedom to choose wrongly. This evening, it has been my very deep perception that this freedom is virtually always a freedom to choose wrongly. I harbor a great fear of losing the true consciousness once again. I have become aware of how fragile everything in me is and that very little would be enough to carry me away.
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Therefore, Sweet Mother, I come to ask a great grace of you, from the depths
\nof my heart: take my freedom into your hands. Prevent me from falling back, far
\naway from you. I place this freedom in your hands. Keep me safe, Mother, protect
\nme. Grant me the grace of watching over me and of taking me in your hands
\ncompletely, like a child whose steps are unsure. I no longer want this Freedom.
\nIt is you I want, the Truth of my being. Mother, as a
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Page 73<\/font><\/p>\n grace, I implore you to free me from my freedom to choose wrongly. I am your child and I love you. Signed: <\/i>Bernard (Mother’s reply)<\/i> 4.2 1.56<\/i> My dear child, Agreed – with all my heart I accept the gift you give me of your freedom to choose wrongly … And it is with all my heart, too, that I shall always help you make the choice that leads straight to the goal – that is, towards your real self. With all my affection and my blessings. Signed: <\/i>Mother Page 74<\/font><\/p>\n <\/font><\/p>\n ISBN 2-902776-33-0<\/p>\n \n \n <\/textarea><\/form>\n <\/title><\/a><\/div>\n <\/span><\/table>\n <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" April 20, 1956 (Letter to Mother from Satprem) Pondicherry, April 20, 1956 Sweet Mother, The difficulties of the past weeks have taught me that as…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-01-volume-01","wpcat-141-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5890","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=5890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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