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I came down at 9:30 sharp, thinking half an hour would be enough to cross the corridor and get here. Apparently not!
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(Mother gives Satprem a rose.) <\/i>This is the Tenderness of the Divine for … for himself! The tenderness He has for his creation. ‘Creation’ … I don’t like that word, as if it all were created from nothing! It is He himself, creating with all his tenderness. Some of these roses get quite big; they’re so lovely!
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And I am … how to put it? Nothing we say is ever absolutely true, but, to stretch it a bit, while I am … not worried, not perturbed, not discouraged, I feel I can’t get anything done; I spend all my time, all my time, seeing people, receiving and answering letters – doing nothing. I haven’t touched my translation [[Mother generally worked a little every day on the French translation of The Synthesis of Yoga.<\/i> ]] for over a week. T. sent me her notebook with questions and I had it for two weeks before I found time to answer. [[The notebook in which a young woman disciple asked questions on Sri Aurobindo’s Thoughts and Aphorisms. <\/i>Later, Mother preferred answering verbally Satprem’s questions on the aphorisms. This allowed her to speak of her experiences freely without the restrictions imposed by a written reply. These ‘Commentaries on the Aphorisms’ were later partially published in the Bulletin <\/i>under the title A Propos. Here they are republished chronologically in their unabridged form. ]] Nothing is ready for the Bulletin <\/i>except what you have done.
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It’s a pity you have no time to do your work.<\/i><\/p>\n
Even the translation…. You know, when I am tired and work on the translation I feel rested. But, oh, all these letters! Even the best of them are stupid. Anyway…. When I came here just now there was someone waiting to see me – I told him to come at 11: 00, and by then there will be 700 people waiting for me to come out. They are already gathered around the Samadhi. [[Where Sri Aurobindo’s body lies, in the Ashram courtyard. ]]
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Well, enough grumbling. Let’s get to work.
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Page 17 <\/font> <\/p>\n (Later, during the course of the conversation, Mother remarked.)<\/i> Understanding The Synthesis of Yoga is <\/i>quite simple: I have only to be silent for a moment, and Sri Aurobindo is here. It’s not this body’s understanding: HE is here! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 7, 1961 I came down at 9:30 sharp, thinking half an hour would be enough to cross the corridor and get here. Apparently not!…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-02-volume-02","wpcat-148-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594","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=6594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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