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Page 193<\/font><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sometimes one catches a glimpse of the heroism it takes to do the work you’re doing….<\/i><\/p>\n (Mother laughs)<\/i> The body is enduring enough, I can’t complain. If there were a certitude, if, for instance, Sri Aurobindo said, "This and this and this is like this," then it would be very easy! But what’s difficult is … You see, you are surrounded by people who think you’re ill and treat you as such, while you know you’re not ill. But everything, everything is shattered … disrupted. Now and then, rarely – rarely – now and then there is bliss all of a sudden. It lasts a few seconds. Maybe that’s actually the way to tell me, "This is how the end will be"? But you are surrounded by a certainty that you’re fast moving towards the end, so this poor body is like this (wobbly gesture).<\/i> It isn’t concerned with it, but it doesn’t have a certitude of how it will end. So all it can do is to be tranquil, trusting, and … endure. (long silence) <\/i> <\/p>\n I had a bizarre dream the other day.<\/i><\/p>\n Oh? <\/p>\n Two nights ago, shortly before dawn, I was with you and you<\/i><\/p>\n were king with you in a street. It was outdoors. Then you told me, "But<\/i><\/p>\n why don’t you ask me questions about the outside world?" Then<\/i><\/p>\n you started talking about China, and you said, if I understood <\/i>\n <\/p>\n well, that China was going to … sweep over the world.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Bah! <\/p>\n I don’t know what that means. But it was outdoors. And one<\/i><\/p>\n detail, there was in the distance the old machine we used when you<\/i><\/p>\n were downstairs. I don’t know if this detail means anything…. <\/i><\/p>\n We were in a street, walking together; I walked by your side.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n (silence)<\/i> <\/p>\n Then you spoke about Africa, Madagascar…. In any case, you<\/i><\/p>\n said to sweep over the world.<\/i><\/p>\n Page 194<\/font><\/p>\n Bah-bah-bah…. That’s not amusing! (silence)<\/i> They’re very scared of China here, to the point that many people want to make atom bombs; so in desperation, they asked me (the government asked me), "What should we do?…" – I was the last person they should have asked! It’s a means of intimidation, but … China has it, Russia has it, France has it (Mother covers her eyes with her hand when mentioning France),<\/i> horrible!… I don’t know if it’s China or America, they have one bomb that’s enough to destroy the whole of Paris. <\/p>\n Yes, certainly!<\/i><\/p>\n (Mother sweeps her hand across her forehead<\/i> long Do you have anything else? (Sujata slips a note into Satprem’s hand)<\/i> <\/p>\n Sujata asks a question. She says: "If India called the Divine,<\/i><\/p>\n would Un-de-ni-a-bly! (Mother laughs)<\/i> Undeniably. They don’t have faith! (Mother goes into a contemplation)<\/i> Page 195<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" May 16, 1970 (Mother’s voice is quite husky.) No voice…. But it doesn’t matter…. Can you hear me?… If you have questions, you can ask…<\/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-6456","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\/6456","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=6456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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