{"id":6452,"date":"2013-07-13T02:07:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=6452"},"modified":"2013-07-13T02:07:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:07:47","slug":"73-october-10-1970-vol-11-volume-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/03-agenda\/11-volume-11\/73-october-10-1970-vol-11-volume-11","title":{"rendered":"-73_October 10_1970.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><H3>October 10, 1970<\/H3><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><i>(Mother gives &quot;Transformation&quot; flowers and slips one into her<\/i><P align=\"center\"><i>&nbsp;buttonhole, then mentions again the translation of the <\/i><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><i>introduction of <\/i>On the Way to Supermanhood.)<br \/>\n<P>I also thought I would ask Shu-Hu to do it in Chinese. That would be good.<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>Shall I ask him for you?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>Yes, tell him that I ask him to do it, if he wants to. If we could send it to China &#8230; There&#8217;s a Chinese in Santiniketan, but I am no longer in touch with him (he gave all his goods to Communist China, and he&#8217;s staying there). He&#8217;s a philosopher, a very intelligent man&#8230;. But anyway, for the translation it should be Shu-Hu.<br \/>\n<P>For the German, I don&#8217;t know&#8230;. We have many Germans, but I don&#8217;t know.<br \/>\n<P>As for the book, it will do like <i>The Adventure,<\/i> it will spread little by little.<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\">***<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 344<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><P align=\"center\"><i>(Then Satprem reads the first chapter: &quot;The Mental Fortress.&quot; <br \/>Mother stops at the following sentence:)<\/i><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>&quot;&#8230; Nothing in the world is unnecessary, we are still look<\/p>\n<p>ing<br \/>\n  for that pain which does not have its secret power of <\/p>\n<p>widening.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>It&#8217;s magnificent! Magnificent.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(at the end of the chapter, Satprem <\/i><br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>quotes Sri Aurobindo&#8217;s &quot;Hour of God&quot;)<\/i><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>&quot;There are moments when the Spirit moves among men &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;there<br \/>\n  are others when it retires and men are left to act in<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;the strength or the weakness of their own egoism. The<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;first are periods when even a little effort produces great<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;results and changes destiny&#8230;.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>Is it the end? Don&#8217;t you say that we are now at one such moment?<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>I could add a sentence: &quot;In truth, we are at this moment.&quot;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>Oh, yes!<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(Mother passes a few satisfied comments, <br \/>then goes into a very smiling contemplation)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>It&#8217;s strange, it makes pictures&#8230;.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(Mother plunges in again)<\/i><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 345<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 10, 1970 (Mother gives &quot;Transformation&quot; flowers and slips one into her&nbsp;buttonhole, then mentions again the translation of the introduction of On the Way to&#8230;<\/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-6452","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\/6452","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=6452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}