{"id":6474,"date":"2013-07-13T02:07:56","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=6474"},"modified":"2013-07-13T02:07:56","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:07:56","slug":"89-december-2-1970-vol-11-volume-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/03-agenda\/11-volume-11\/89-december-2-1970-vol-11-volume-11","title":{"rendered":"-89_December 2_1970.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><H3>December 2, 1970<\/H3><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><i>(Mother has a bloodshot left eye and a swollen cheek.) <\/i><br \/>\n<P>Are you all right?<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>Yes, Mother, and you?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>Toothache &#8230; Always something &#8230; It doesn&#8217;t matter.<br \/>\n<P>It&#8217;s interesting simply because there isn&#8217;t that spontaneous reaction everyone has <i>(gesture turned in)<\/i> of seeing and acting in relation with this <i>(Mother points to her body).<\/i> This [the body] is like this <i>(gesture of abolition),<\/i> it doesn&#8217;t exist. Very strange &#8211; and spontaneously. It&#8217;s not the result of a will or even a thought, a consciousness: it&#8217;s a natural state. As if it did not exist. And I suppose that&#8217;s why every little corner that isn&#8217;t yet exactly as it should be goes wrong, and then &#8230; Then it has to set itself right, that&#8217;s all.<br \/>\n<P>From the standpoint of consciousness, it&#8217;s quite fine &#8211; quite fine. It becomes natural, quite spontaneous, effortless.<br \/>\n<P>The center isn&#8217;t there, you understand! <i>(Mother laughs, pointing to her body)<\/i> Even, even physically.<br \/>\n<P>It&#8217;s all right.<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\">***<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><i>(Then Mother translates a few fragments of Savitri:)<\/i><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>This mire must harbour the orchid and the rose, <\/p>\n<p><P><\/p>\n<p>From her blind unwilling substance must emerge <\/p>\n<p><P><\/p>\n<p>A beauty that belongs to happier spheres.<\/p>\n<p><P align=\"right\"><i>II.II.107<\/i><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\">***<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><i>(Satprem reads the end of chapter 11 of <\/i>Supermanhood<i>,<\/i><P align=\"center\"><i>&nbsp;&quot;The<br \/>\nChange of Power.&quot;)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>It&#8217;s magnificent!&#8230;<br \/>\n<P>Is T. translating it into English?<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 381<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><P>Is she interested?<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>Don&#8217;t know.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>And German?&#8230; If there were someone &#8230;<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(silence)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>It leaves me the whole day in a very comfortable atmosphere. We still have some time. We can still have a little moment of quiet.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(meditation)<\/i><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 382<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 2, 1970 (Mother has a bloodshot left eye and a swollen cheek.) Are you all right? Yes, Mother, and you? Toothache &#8230; Always something&#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-6474","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\/6474","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=6474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}