{"id":6220,"date":"2013-07-13T02:06:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=6220"},"modified":"2013-07-13T02:06:29","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:06:29","slug":"38-may-8-1968-vol-09-volume-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/03-agenda\/09-volume-09\/38-may-8-1968-vol-09-volume-09","title":{"rendered":"-38_May 8_1968.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><H3>May 8, 1968<\/H3><br \/>\n<P>Did you see P.L.? How did you find him?<\/p>\n<p><i>He&#8217;s nervously quite shaken, quite exhausted.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>Don&#8217;t you think they did some magic on him?<\/p>\n<p><i>That&#8217;s quite my impression.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>Ah, you too&#8230;. As for me, I very much feel they did magic so he wouldn&#8217;t be able to speak to the Pope.<\/p>\n<p><i>For the moment, he&#8217;s very exhausted. <\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 127<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><P>Yes, they&#8217;ve drained him.<\/p>\n<p><i>It started with a mental attack &#8211; every possible doubt: Sri  <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Aurobindo is &quot;like Saint Augustine&quot;; Mother is &quot;like Virgin<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;Mary,&quot; it&#8217;s &quot;the same thing.&quot; A mental attack, anyway. After<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;that, he became unable to eat: every time he ate, he would<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>vomit. Then he had fits of hysteria: convulsions, foaming at<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;the mouth, and a kind of half madness.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>Bah, bah!<\/p>\n<p><i>Because he wrote to the Pope &#8230; Here&#8217;s what happened: he<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;wrote<br \/>\n  to the Pope asking him for an audience, but that lette<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;never reached the Pope.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>Oh!<\/p>\n<p><i>It fell into the hands of the &quot;Chief of Correspondence,&quot; who<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;probably<br \/>\n  sent it to the &quot;Indian department&quot; of the Vatican to<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;find out what that Ashram was&#8230;. And he was never allowed<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;to see the Pope. Eight days later, those attacks started coming.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;And after another eight days, they told him, &quot;Oh, you&#8217;re too ill,<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;you can&#8217;t meet the Pope. You&#8217;re &#8216;out of it.&#8217;&quot;<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>Now they&#8217;re on their guard over there.<\/p>\n<p><i>But with what he told me, I caught the Vatican&#8217;s atmosphere&#8230;. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>It&#8217;s something frightful, a mafia with bands hating each other,<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;lying in wait for the Pope&#8217;s disappearance, not daring to say<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;anything: those who are for the Pope dare not say anything<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;because they think, &quot;When the Pope dies, Ill need his enemies<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;to be elected in his place.&quot; They all keep thinking about his<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;succession. So no one wants to be the other&#8217;s enemy and each <\/i>\n  <\/p>\n<p><i>watches the other. It&#8217;s a frightful atmosphere.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>Since he gave that letter for the Pope, I&#8217;ve been seeing constant attacks here, constant. These people are dangerous.<\/p>\n<p><i>And there&#8217;s a serious fact I learned from P.L. You know that<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;the<br \/>\n  Pope was operated on a year ago&#8230;.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>What for?<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 128<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><i>For the prostate. And in fact, it&#8217;s cancer.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>Oh! &#8230; So they&#8217;re expecting him to die&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><i>And they don&#8217;t like him. P.L. told me, &quot;At the Vatican, they<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;don&#8217;t<br \/>\n  like him.&quot; They say he is &quot;the son of a journalist, a chap<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;who wants to cause a sensation.&quot; That&#8217;s how they judge him at<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;the Vatican.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P align=\"right\"><i>(Mother remains concentrated<\/i><P align=\"right\"><i>&nbsp;for a<br \/>\nlong time)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>Was the Pope operated on before or after he came to India?<\/p>\n<p><i>After, I think.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P align=\"center\">* * *<br \/>\n<P><i>Then Mother remains<\/i><P><i>&nbsp;in contemplation till the end<\/i><br \/>\n<P>I have no inclination to speak&#8230;. But it&#8217;s a continuous work, day and night, day and night&#8230;. &#8220;One&#8221; seems to have set off something rather formidable.[[Since April 2, 1968 (&#8220;An immense page falling back&#8221;). ]]<br \/>\n<P>Nothing to say?<\/p>\n<p><i>One wonders how all this Vatican business is going to turn<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>out?<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>All that they want is to keep things as they are. Their whole will is to prevent things from moving&#8230;. Unfortunately, it&#8217;s easier to prevent things from moving than to make them move.<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 129<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"right\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 8, 1968 Did you see P.L.? How did you find him? He&#8217;s nervously quite shaken, quite exhausted. 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