{"id":5985,"date":"2013-07-13T02:05:14","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=5985"},"modified":"2013-07-13T02:05:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:05:14","slug":"190-april-7-1960-vol-01-volume-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/03-agenda\/01-volume-01\/190-april-7-1960-vol-01-volume-01","title":{"rendered":"-190_April 7_1960.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><br \/>\n<H3>April 7, 1960<\/H3><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><i>(Letter to Mother from Satprem)<\/i><br \/>\n<P align=\"right\">Hyderabad, April 7, 1960<br \/>\n<P>Sweet Mother,<br \/>\n<P>A few lines to tell you that I miss you. I truly realize more and more that I shall never be happy until I have disappeared in you entirely. There must be nothing left <i>but <\/i>That. I understand well enough, but I&#8217;m so blocked, so thick. In any case, I &#8216;think&#8217; of you a lot and I really only live by this something that pulls me deep within. If that were not there, it would all be so absurd.<br \/>\n<P>I&#8217;ve booked my ticket to Rameswaram for the evening of the 13th, so I will probably reach there on the 15th.<br \/>\n<P>I brought some work with me (revision of <i>The Human Cycle), <\/i>and that helps me to live. I still don&#8217;t clearly see the meaning of this trip. Just before I left, I received word from the publisher in Paris that &#8216;my&#8217; book will come out in September.<br \/>\n<P>There are moments when I feel you so close to me &#8211; could you not help me be more conscious of your presence (not as an impersonal force, but you)?<br \/>\n<P>I love you, sweet Mother. You are truly my Mother, and I need you so much.<br \/>\n<P>With all my love, I am at your feet.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>Signed: <\/i>Satprem<br \/>\n<P>Things are better physically. But it&#8217;s always a terrible physical shock for me to take the train.<br \/>\n<P><i><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\">(Mother&#8217;s reply)<\/i><br \/>\n<P align=\"right\">4.12.60<br \/>\n<P>My dear little one,<br \/>\n<P>Your good letter of the 7th has arrived.<br \/>\n<P>This inner fusion you speak of as a truth to be realized is already accomplished, absolutely perceptible to me. For long I have felt you as an integral part of my being; it seems to me that only some surface eddies prevent you also from feeling and living it.<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 361<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><P>But I am convinced it will come. Meanwhile, I am trying to make you feel my presence not as an &#8216;impersonal force&#8217; but as a real and concrete presence, and I am happy to have succeeded in part.<br \/>\n<P>&#8230; &#8230; &#8230; &#8230;<br \/>\n<P>Send me news of yourself, for I am always happy to hear from you.<br \/>\n<P>I am with you, in love and joy.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>Signed: <\/i>Mother<br \/>\n<P>As regards <i>L&#8217;Orpailleur, <\/i>it&#8217;s good. I keep feeling that everything is going to turn out well.<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 362<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">ISBN 2-902776-33-0<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 7, 1960 (Letter to Mother from Satprem) Hyderabad, April 7, 1960 Sweet Mother, A few lines to tell you that I miss you. 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