{"id":6418,"date":"2013-07-13T02:07:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=6418"},"modified":"2013-07-13T02:07:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:07:35","slug":"70-september-30-1970-vol-11-volume-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/03-agenda\/11-volume-11\/70-september-30-1970-vol-11-volume-11","title":{"rendered":"-70_September 30_1970.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><H3>September 30, 1970<\/H3><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><i>(Mother is a little late.)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>I don&#8217;t know the days of the week, and I am not told the days, so I didn&#8217;t<br \/>\nknow it was your day. That&#8217;s why I am late. I don&#8217;t know<P align=\"center\"><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\">Page<br \/>\n331<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><P>&nbsp;the days at all. So I&#8217;ll be seeing people, and suddenly I&#8217;ll be told<br \/>\nit&#8217;s Wednesday, and &#8230; I don&#8217;t even know whether its Wednesday or Saturday. I<br \/>\nlive completely outside time, outside the small everyday reality.<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>(silence) I saw G. yesterday, he isn&#8217;t too well.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P><i>(after a long silence) <\/i>I feel he lives outside the atmosphere.<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>Yet he says he is so constantly turned to you. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>There&#8217;s something preventing the contact.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(after a silence)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>His contact is mental. Physically, it&#8217;s as if he lived elsewhere, you understand?<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(long concentration on G.)<\/i><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>And then, the Dutch translation of <\/i>The Adventure of Conscious<\/p>\n<p>ness<i> is going to be published, and D. asked A. M. to make a cover<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;for the book. A. M. has done something he&#8217;d like to show you.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;Here is what he&#8217;s done&#8230;. [[A lotus whose stem winds and turns under green waters, and whose closed bud just breaks the surface; above the waters, a dark green sky with a moon. ]]  [Satprem shows the painting.]<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>Bah! it&#8217;s really dark.<br \/>\n<P>It&#8217;s really dark, his world is dark.<br \/>\n<P>Phew! it&#8217;s hopeless.<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>It does look like that.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>I don&#8217;t like that.<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>I think the symbol is good, but the color &#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>Yes. If he did the blue of the mind &#8211; the Consciousness making<P align=\"center\"><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\">Page 332<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><P>&nbsp;its way out of the mind &#8211; if he did a blue of the mind, then it would<br \/>\nbe all right. But this black is disgusting.<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>And with a sun here. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>One can&#8217;t see the sun.<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>It&#8217;s a moon, I think&#8230;. No, there should be the mind&#8217;s blue<br \/>\n  and<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;the sun rising.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>Oh, yes! The moon won&#8217;t do at all.<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>That&#8217;s what I had felt.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>No, not for your book. Instead of this, there should be something blossoming out. This is tight, confined, cramped &#8211; something blossoming out in a great light.<br \/>\n<P>It won&#8217;t do at all.<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>The other book, [[On the Way to Supermanhood. ]]  you know, it&#8217;s an adventure&#8230;. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><P><i>(Laughing) <\/i>So then?<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>Nothing, it&#8217;s an adventure.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>Give me a paper <i>(Mother draws).<\/i><br \/>\n<P>First, no need to put so much water. It&#8217;s better to have the thing above.<br \/>\n<P>Instead of a stem that writhes (you don&#8217;t writhe! <i>[laughter]<\/i>), you can put seven lines &#8211; seven lines. Then a gathering of the seven lines here <i>(just above the surface of the waters).<\/i> This is symbolic of the book&#8217;s formation. And then here <i>(above the waters),<\/i> rise straight and &#8230; <i>(Mother draws seven lines opening up at the top of a stem). <\/i>You understand: seven ascents <i>(below)<\/i> and here <i>(above)<\/i> seven responses. Like this. Seven lines gathering at a point that corresponds to this [the other point where the seven lines from below gather]. Then it has a meaning.<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\">***<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 333<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><P align=\"center\"><i>(Then Satprem reads out an old Playground <\/i>Talk<i> of 16 September 1953, <br \/>which ends with these lines:)<\/i><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>&quot;&#8230; Whereas, if one were open and simply breathing &#8211; that&#8217;s all, doing nothing else &#8211; one would breathe Consciousness, Light, Comprehension, Force, Love and all the rest. But all that is wasted on the earth, because the earth isn&#8217;t ready to take it. There.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><P><\/p>\n<p><i>Is the earth a little more ready. Mother?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P align=\"right\"><i>(Mother goes into a very long contemplation<\/i><P align=\"right\"><i>&nbsp;lasting<br \/>\ntill the end, and does not answer)<\/i><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 334<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 30, 1970 (Mother is a little late.) 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