(Mother gives Satprem a calendar notepad, then a felt pen.) <\/i>
\n
What color is it?
\n
<\/p>\n
It’s violet.<\/i><\/p>\n
The violet of power.
\n
(Mother looks in vain for a green pencil for Sujata<\/i>
and finally gives her a blue one)<\/i>
\n
Do you have something?
\n
(Mother goes into a long contemplation. Her breathing is
\nbetter,<\/i>
becomes peaceful, but now and then there are
\ninvoluntary<\/i>
movements of the left leg and the
\nshoulders, especially the<\/i>
right shoulder.)<\/i>
\n
Do you have anything?
\n
<\/p>\n
Is there anything new?<\/i><\/p>\n
(Mother shakes her head<\/i>
and plunges
\nin again)<\/i>
\n
Do you really have nothing to read me?
\n
<\/p>\n
If you. like, I could read you my new book. … [[On the Way to Supermanhood.
\n ]] It will be reassu<\/i><\/p>\n
ring because I don’t know where I am going.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
That’s good. I’ll be happy to hear it.
\n
(Mother plunges in again)<\/i>
\n
It’s all right (in an unconvinced tone). <\/i>What time is it?
\n
<\/p>\n
Quarter past eleven.<\/i><\/p>\n
Page 337<\/font><\/p>\n (Mother looks a few times,<\/i> but goes So the next time, you’ll bring your book. *** <\/p>\n (After Satprem’s departure, Sujata tells Mother about young<\/i><\/p>\n women of her generation, who do not have the advantage of<\/i><\/p>\n being "close to Mother" or in the circle of "important persons,"<\/i><\/p>\n and who suffer from never seeing Mother. This was in fact – <\/i>\n <\/p>\n which is why we record it – a very central problem at the Ashram:<\/i><\/p>\n a sort of dichotomy between the simple elements who washed the<\/i><\/p>\n dishes, stitched clothes or greased cars, and who were there sim<\/i><\/p>\n ply with their love for Mother, and the "leading" elements, who<\/i><\/p>\n increasingly revealed their ambitious and therefore warped nature. <\/i>\n <\/p>\n Yet it was with that thick circle that Mother had to work almost<\/i><\/p>\n daily, and that is what made her difficulty, if not suffocation.<\/i><\/p>\n With Sujata, Mother agreed to receive in rotation a number<\/i><\/p>\n of those young and simple elements – unfortunately, that new<\/i><\/p>\n opening will soon be blocked by circumstances: a new serious<\/i><\/p>\n turning point in Mother’s yoga, then other "impossibilities.")<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Page 338<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October 3, 1970 (Mother gives Satprem a calendar notepad, then a felt pen.) What color is it? It’s violet. The violet of power. (Mother looks…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-11-volume-11","wpcat-146-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6409","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=6409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\naway straight off)<\/i>
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