There’s a problem. It’s about P.L. – do you know who he is?<\/i>[[A visitor who has been staying in the Ashram for some time. ]]<\/p>\n
No.<\/p>\n
He is one of the dignitaries of the Roman Curia.<\/i><\/p>\n
I don’t understand! He is a Catholic?<\/p>\n
He’s going to be appointed bishop in [such and such a country].<\/i><\/p>\n
…!!!<\/p>\n
So there’s a problem. He is an important person, and he wants<\/i><\/p>\n
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longer wants it. He wants to leave his Church, his episcopate,<\/i><\/p>\n
everything, and remain here. He has "found" something here. <\/i>\n <\/p>\n
Page 85<\/font><\/p>\n Yes, I saw that man: he was very much attached.<\/p>\n Yes, and he wants to leave everything. But it’s a problem,<\/i><\/p>\n because Communists are always ready to seize on the least opportunity: <\/i>\n <\/p>\n a priest who gives up the frock … Not only a priest, but an <\/i><\/p>\n apprentice bishop of the Roman Curia. So he would like it to<\/i><\/p>\n take place without scandals. But how should he go about it?<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n I saw the man, and I found him very good.<\/p>\n He is very good. He has something. He has experiences with Sri<\/i><\/p>\n Aurobindo, he sees Sri Aurobindo. But there too, there’s a pro<\/i><\/p>\n blem. First, he needs your force: he’s a man without much<\/i><\/p>\n force vitally and physically. When he goes out of his body …<\/i><\/p>\n The other day, he saw Sri Aurobindo at the Samadhi, and at<\/i><\/p>\n the same time his body was being devoured by wild beasts and<\/i><\/p>\n thrown out of his bed. He is attacked, he needs to be protected.<\/i><\/p>\n Vitally and physically, he is weak. So you understand, if he<\/i><\/p>\n goes back to Rome, those people won’t let him go without a<\/i><\/p>\n battle…. He’d like to ask you how he should proceed?<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Is he from [such and such a country]?<\/p>\n Yes, and he is employed in Rome’s Court, he looks after divorce<\/i><\/p>\n cases. So on the one hand he needs your force to carry out this <\/i>\n <\/p>\n operation – it really is an operation – and then, what’s the way<\/i><\/p>\n to avoid a scandal? He told me he is the right-hand man of<\/i><\/p>\n Cardinal T. <\/i>[[Cardinal Tisserant, who died in 1972. ]]: “Should I use my influence with Cardinal T. to<\/i><\/p>\n be given a sort of mission outside Rome, in Africa or in India,<\/i><\/p>\n gradually distancing myself from Rome, keeping out of the<\/i><\/p>\n limelight, and then disappearing? Or should I directly speak to<\/i><\/p>\n the Pope and tell him clearly all that’s going on?…” Because<\/i><\/p>\n you know that when the Pope came to Bombay, P.L. was with<\/i><\/p>\n him in the plane….<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n I prefer the solution of speaking to the Pope. (Mother goes into<\/i> a long Page 86<\/font><\/p>\n Is he the one who fainted here during a meditation?<\/p>\n Yes, vitally and physically he is weak.<\/i><\/p>\n But vitally, the Pope is very strong. That’s troublesome. (Mother again goes into<\/i> a long It’s the only way. That danger is there, but he’ll have to go through it. When is he leaving?<\/p>\n Early in April. He’ll ask to see you before he goes.<\/i><\/p>\n Yes. But I won’t speak. From here where will he go first?<\/p>\n To Rome, I think.<\/i><\/p>\n (silence)<\/i><\/p>\n But I have a feeling the Pope may also be interested?<\/i><\/p>\n (Mother nods her head)<\/i> Page 87<\/font><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 20, 1968 There’s a problem. It’s about P.L. – do you know who he is?[[A visitor who has been staying in the Ashram for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-09-volume-09","wpcat-144-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6253","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=6253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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