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My eyesight has gone down a lot these last two days.
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There’s a difficulty…. I am beginning to be unable to eat, so … Things are becoming difficult.
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Is it the consciousness or the body?<\/i><\/p>\n
It’s … I don’t know. I don’t know what’s going on.
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Page 141<\/font><\/p>\n The body seems to be straddling … (gesture between two worlds). <\/i>Naturally, it still has all the old habits, so that makes for … it makes for a queer thing. It’s only the consciousness that’s clearer than it has ever been. Consciousness of what goes on in people … But speaking is a difficult thing, very difficult, and the sight is … (Mother shakes her head).<\/i> (long silence)<\/i> Don’t know. (long silence)<\/i> It really is a very strange condition. Very strange. You know, this whole base, from automatism to all the things one does out of habit, is … (yes, there’s an enormous quantity of things one does automatically) … it’s gone. So that’s … difficult. (silence)<\/i> It’s especially, especially the question of eating, because for an extremely long time (many years) there has been no interest in food, none at all. Its taken only … its taken with a certain knowledge of what is needed, but that’s all. Well, now, it’s … almost difficult to swallow. Especially that: very difficult to swallow. (Mother goes into a long contemplation) <\/i> There is also a difficulty breathing. Breath is … is short. (silence) <\/i> What’s going to happen? I don’t know. (Mother laughs)<\/i> <\/p>\n But the Power is more and more massive, I feel.<\/i><\/p>\n Yes, yes. Oh, and at times … Listen, yesterday I saw a boy who’d taken a wrong turn (he is in Auroville). He’d taken a wrong turn, had rebelled and didn’t want to do anything anymore. Anyway … So I wrote him to come. Every Tuesday, they come from Auroville, four of them. He came with them. He came in … closed, blocked. I said absolutely nothing, I looked at him, simply looked … (gesture).<\/i> After a few minutes, brrt! everything melted. And then he expressed it. Page 142<\/font><\/p>\n Without saying anything, not a word, simply … Such things take place all the time, all the time. It’s odd, the body acts as an intermediary (gesture radiating through the body),<\/i> like that, simply like that. (silence)<\/i> But I am constantly out of breath…. I don’t think there’s any disease, I don’t get that impression. On the contrary, I get the impression that certain things are rather getting better (oh, nothing very spectacular, but some things do get better). But there are two difficulties: one is breathing – short, very short – and the other is eating…. Drinking, I can still drink. Don’t know. And I would really like not to reach a condition where I’ll be asked to see a doctor, because they can’t understand…. Did I give you flowers? Page 143<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" April 8, 1970 (Regrettably, Satprem did not preserve the recording of the following conversation, perhaps feeling too acutely the negative appearance of Mother’s difficulties, although that very…<\/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-6415","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\/6415","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=6415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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