{"id":6079,"date":"2013-07-13T02:05:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=6079"},"modified":"2013-07-13T02:05:44","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:05:44","slug":"66-october-15-1966-vol-07-volume-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/03-agenda\/07-volume-07\/66-october-15-1966-vol-07-volume-07","title":{"rendered":"-66_October 15_1966.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><H3>October 15, 1966<\/H3><br \/>\n<P><i>The conversation begins an hour and a half late.<\/i><br \/>\n<P>All right. It&#8217;s 11:30. I am not starting anything &#8211; neither talking nor keeping quiet (because that lasts a long time!)<br \/>\n<P>I&#8217;ll try to play some music on October 30, if I can. I don&#8217;t know<P align=\"center\"><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\">Page 233<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><P>&nbsp;what will come&#8230;. One day, as I was sitting quietly, I wondered whether it would come, and suddenly I grew very tall, very tall, with large hands, and I was sitting before an instrument that wasn&#8217;t this one: it was a much bigger instrument, and I started playing such a fugue! It was fantastic. I looked and saw myself with large hands, large arms, and a big instrument&#8230;. And it was very good <i>(laughing), <\/i>the MUSIC was very good!<br \/>\n<P>It&#8217;s the first time I have seen myself like that.<br \/>\n<P>But there&#8217;s nothing left of the music, nothing at all in the memory, not a single note.<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><i>***<\/i><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><i>(Then Mother looks at her appointment notebook and the stack of letters from people asking to see her.)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>All this <i>(pointing to the stack of letters) <\/i>is for appointments! And it&#8217;s something quite simple, it&#8217;s not tiring &#8211; nothing is tiring if you aren&#8217;t in a hurry. But if you are forever thinking of the next thing you have to do, it&#8217;s horrible. If you do the thing as it comes, without thinking of anything else, it&#8217;s very good&#8230;. That nasty habit of thinking, always thinking &#8211; very bad. But I am beginning to &#8230; <i>(with a mischievous smile) <\/i>Do you think fish think?! Because I felt like saying, &#8220;I am beginning to live like a fish in water!&#8221; <i>(Laughing) <\/i>Fish probably don&#8217;t think. But dolphins think, don&#8217;t they? They talk, so they must think &#8230; their brain is heavier than man&#8217;s.<br \/>\n<P>Ah, no chattering!<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 234<\/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 15, 1966 The conversation begins an hour and a half late. All right. It&#8217;s 11:30. I am not starting anything &#8211; neither talking nor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-07-volume-07","wpcat-142-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6079","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=6079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}