(After various remarks or observations which, unfortunately, Satprem did not keep:)<\/i>
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Ah, to work now! (Mother laughs) <\/i>One plays all the time … one has the feeling that life is nothing but play! …
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(Then the question comes up of Mother’s photograph with a veil and the date when it was taken. That photograph is to be included in Satprem’s book on Sri Aurobindo, and Mother had said to date it 1914.)<\/i>
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The photo was taken in 19 … (Mother tries to remember).<\/i><\/p>\n
1903, according to J.<\/i><\/p>\n
No. That was the first time I went to Tlemcen … it must have been in 1905 – at least 1905, if not 1906.[[Mother went to Tlemcen twice, in 1906 and 1907. ]]
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I never remember dates, I only remember circumstances.
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I know it was the first time I went to Tlemcen. And I remember having said that I began my “conscious yoga” when I was twenty-five (twenty-five, that’s in 1908[[ Actually, Mother was twenty-five in 1903. ]]), what I call my “conscious yoga,” that is, certain practices. It was in 1908. And Th\u00e9on was three years earlier. Only, I had known Th\u00e9on one year before going to Tlemcen, so it was perhaps 1904, and the photo was perhaps taken in 1905. But you know, I am not much good with dates! Anyway, it was between 1903 and 1908.
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But I hadn’t changed: my appearance was exactly the same when I came here. So for your book, we’ll say 1914, according to the appearance; in other words, that’s how I looked when I met Sri Aurobindo for the first time in 1914. Voil\u00e0.
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