{"id":6323,"date":"2013-07-13T02:07:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=6323"},"modified":"2013-07-13T02:07:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:07:03","slug":"01-january-2-1963-vol-04-volume-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/03-agenda\/04-volume-04\/01-january-2-1963-vol-04-volume-04","title":{"rendered":"-01_January 2_1963.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><\/p>\n<p><P><\/p>\n<p><P><br \/>\n<H3 align=\"center\">January<\/H3><br \/>\n<H3>January 2, 1963<\/H3><br \/>\n<P>My year is off to a dreadful start. And I am afraid it may go on like that.<\/p>\n<p><i>Some new difficulties?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>No, it&#8217;s just that everybody wants to see me!<br \/>\n<P>They tire me &#8211; they wear me out.<br \/>\n<P>While I would need &#8230; Oh, at times I withdraw from action altogether &#8211; by &#8220;action,&#8221; I mean talking and above all receiving swarms of vibrations &#8230; terrible, terrible vibrations!<br \/>\n<P>I feel the work is going fairly fast inside, there are some interesting things (what shall I say?) &#8230; like promises. But the [body&#8217;s] sensitivity and the possibility of imbalance have heightened, in the sense that a mere trifle, which in other circumstances would have been totally unimportant and would have just gone by smoothly, throws the body off balance &#8211; the body has grown terribly sensitive. For example, a wrong reaction in someone, a tension or some reaction of a quite ordinary order, causes a sudden weariness in my body, as if it were exhausted. Then I have to collect myself and plunge back into the Source so that &#8230;<br \/>\n<P>These are difficult days.<br \/>\n<P>There&#8217;s also that awful habit people have, you know, that democratic spirit: if I do something for one, why shouldn&#8217;t I do it for another? They would readily accept that I was ill and unable to see anyone (!), they&#8217;d say, &#8220;Poor Mother, we should be really nice to her and leave her alone&#8221;; but that I am a force and don&#8217;t give this person what I give that one and that other one, that they won&#8217;t accept! Egalitarianism is in vogue nowadays; hierarchy, or even simply dealing with each case differently &#8211; that&#8217;s all outmoded.<br \/>\n<P>Anyway, I don&#8217;t want to start explaining all this, I will do it some other time.<br \/>\n<P>But we have a few tough days ahead to get through.<\/p>\n<p><i>You shouldn&#8217;t let yourself be swamped.<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n  <font size=\"2\">Page<br \/>\n\t19<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><P>No.<br \/>\n<P>I don&#8217;t LET them, but &#8230;<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 20<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"right\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January January 2, 1963 My year is off to a dreadful start. And I am afraid it may go on like that. Some new difficulties?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-04-volume-04","wpcat-145-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323","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=6323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}