And your translation of “Savitri”?<\/i><\/p>\n
But I have work to do. I no longer have time. I no longer have time to do anything.<\/p>\n
It’s a pity.<\/i><\/p>\n
That is to say, now F. has taken it into her head to translate Savitri <\/i>with me (all she does is look in the dictionary when I need a word), right from the start, and I’ve reached the second page! It’ll take ten or fifteen years!
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But I find it very interesting, because I only have to be still, and Sri Aurobindo dictates to me. So there remains one or two little corrections in the French, and that’s that. He tells me the word: for this word, this word. Like that. It’s very interesting. Only, I do five or six lines every time…. But now I do it better than I used to.
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The government (I don’t know who) has asked the chief of the Radio here to ask me for a message on India’s condition. At first I answered, “I don’t deal with politics.” Then he told me, “No, it’s not from a political but from a spiritual standpoint.” I said, “I don’t know.” But he insisted, he told me, “I’ve been asked by the government; if I can’t give it to them, I’ll be in trouble….” The poor man knew how to get round me! (Mother laughs)<\/i>
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and any attempt to unify them artificially could only<\/i> have "But her soul is one, intense in her aspiration towards<\/i> the and the aspiration the has never ceased to exist My handwriting has become quite bad…. It’s not me who wrote this, I don’t remember it at all – it doesn’t evoke any memory in me. I also put (and this is from me), “the essential unity of the creation and the divine origin of life.” <\/i>That whole formula, I know, was an attempt to express the thing without using the word “God,” <\/i>because … There was in my life a period of at least twenty years during which those words used to make me bristle, so I understand very well the feeling it evokes in people. Later, it was Sri Aurobindo who made me rise above all that; but it’s because he pulled me very high up that I rose above all that, otherwise, on an intellectual level, it didn’t do at all. It evokes the narrowest religiosity, and … it won’t do. So I don’t want that – the country is now fully in it, here in India. I don’t want to raise that first obstacle. That’s why I made this long sentence. * * * Towards the end<\/i> Do you have news of P. L.?<\/p>\n I got a letter. He doesn’t say anything in fact, he says he was<\/i><\/p>\n summoned wise, he says he is well and feels your presence.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Yes, that I know.<\/p>\n And he says that Cardinal T., who is the Cardinal of France, as <\/i><\/p>\n well as Msgr. R., both insisted that he should stay at his post at<\/i><\/p>\n the Vatican.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Oh!… I thought they wanted to nominate him cardinal over there …. Page 190<\/font><\/p>\n Yes, he [P.L.] wanted to pull out of the Vatican.<\/i><\/p>\n Yes, HE did.<\/p>\n But they want him to stay at his post at the Vatican, at least the time being.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Oh! … Page 191<\/font><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 3, 1968 And your translation of “Savitri”? But I have work to do. I no longer have time. I no longer have time to…<\/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-6254","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\/6254","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=6254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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