{"id":6405,"date":"2013-07-13T02:07:30","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=6405"},"modified":"2013-07-13T02:07:30","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:07:30","slug":"12-february-11-1970-vol-11-volume-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/03-agenda\/11-volume-11\/12-february-11-1970-vol-11-volume-11","title":{"rendered":"-12_February 11_1970.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><H3>February 11, 1970<\/H3><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><i>(Mother coughs, her voice is quite hoarse.)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>I&#8217;m not well. Impossible to speak.<P>&nbsp;Have you received the <i>Aphorisms<\/i>?<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 79<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><P><\/p>\n<p>324 &#8211; &quot;Freedom, equality, brotherhood,&quot; cried the<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;French revolutionists, but in truth freedom only has<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;been practised with a dose of equality; as for brother<\/p>\n<p>hood, only a brotherhood of Cain was founded &#8211; and of <\/p>\n<p>Barabbas. Sometimes it calls itself a Trust or Combine<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;and sometimes the Concert of Europe.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P><\/p>\n<p>325 &#8211; &quot;Since liberty has failed,&quot; cries the advanced<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;thought<br \/>\n  of Europe, &quot;let us try liberty cum equality or,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;since the two are a little hard to pair, equality instead<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;of liberty. For brotherhood, it is impossible; therefore<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;we will replace it by industrial association.&quot; But this<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;time also, I think. God will not be deceived.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P align=\"right\"><i>(Satprem reads out Mother&#8217;s answer)<\/i><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>&quot;For the moment still, liberty, equality, fraternity are <\/p>\n<p>nothing but words loudly proclaimed but never put<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;into practice yet. They cannot be, so long as men <\/p>\n<p>remain as they are, governed by their ego and all its<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;desires instead of being governed solely by the One<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Supreme and supremely Divine.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>And I added:<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>&quot;Liberty cannot be manifested until all men know the<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;freedom<br \/>\n  of the Supreme Lord.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&quot;Equality cannot be manifested until all men are<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;conscious of the Supreme Lord.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&quot;Fraternity cannot be manifested until all men feel<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;equally issued from the Supreme Lord and &#8216;one&#8217; in<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;His Unity&quot;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>It appears impossible to humanity, but it will probably be possible for the new species.<br \/>\n<P>Another thing &#8230; <i>(Mother holds out another note).<\/i> I can&#8217;t see clearly&#8230;. It was a young girl who was terribly troubled by other&#8217;s opinions, so I answered her:<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>&quot;The Supreme Lord&#8217;s opinion<\/p>\n<p><P><\/p>\n<p>alone matters. &quot;The Supreme Lord alone<\/p>\n<p><P><\/p>\n<p>deserves all our love<\/p>\n<p><P><\/p>\n<p>and gives it back a hundredfold.&quot;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n  <font size=\"2\">Page 80<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><P align=\"right\"><i>(silence)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>I&#8217;m not well <i>(Mother holds her head in her hands).<\/i> My head, never in my life has it been like this. I hear noise inside and &#8230;<br \/>\n<P>It began this morning, it was full of something which &#8230; I don&#8217;t know what it is. And people are pressing and pressing and pressing &#8211; how many! I&#8217;ve never seen so many&#8230;. Yesterday morning I was almost cured, I thought it was over, and then I saw people till half past twelve. So after that &#8230;<br \/>\n<P>Do you have anything?&#8230; Then I won&#8217;t speak.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(long meditation)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>I&#8217;ll see you on Saturday, I hope it will be over.<br \/>\n<P>My head has never been in such a state&#8230;. The consciousness is very clear, very clear&#8230;. Strange&#8230;. My head feels as if it&#8217;s this big <i>(gesture),<\/i> as if it had become huge.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(silence)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>One [French] embassy attach&eacute; came, dined at the Consulate with R. and F. and Baron [former governor of Pondicherry]; it was his daughter who came at Auroville&#8217;s inauguration to put soil from France. So he asked all sorts of questions and was very interested. &#8230; A new ambassador is coming, he is hoped to be better&#8230;. [[An ongoing hope. ]]  The previous one was quite anti-Ashram. But the new one is hoped to be better, this attach&eacute; came for the new ambassador.<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\"><\/textarea><\/form>\n<p>Page<br \/>\n81<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 11, 1970 (Mother coughs, her voice is quite hoarse.) I&#8217;m not well. Impossible to speak.&nbsp;Have you received the Aphorisms? 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