I have some news from S. about the Russian translation [of <\/i><\/p>\n
“Supermanhood"]. The person who’s doing it has already<\/i><\/p>\n
translated the introduction and sent her text. S. says this, "In<\/i><\/p>\n
Russian it is very beautiful — enthralling. The very sound of the <\/i>\n <\/p>\n
language conveys something that goes straight to your heart.<\/i><\/p>\n
Page 119<\/font><\/p>\n And personally, in the little I’ve read, I have felt the flow of your style…."[[The translation never went beyond the Oh, that’s good, that’s good. I have great hope for the Russians…. I don’t know why…. They’ve had an experience and have realized the emptiness of it all. (Mother goes within for a long time)<\/i> Nothing in particular?<\/p>\n There’s the problem of the English translation of the book.<\/i><\/p>\n A. didn’t tell me what he thought of it.<\/p>\n A. said that it doesn’t come through — what’s behind doesn’t<\/i><\/p>\n come Oh!<\/p>\n But then he says that all things considered, because they don’t<\/i><\/p>\n understand back to what they’ve read (!) and try to understand … the<\/i><\/p>\n second time around they’ll understand and perhaps they’ll<\/i><\/p>\n come in contact….<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n (Mother shakes her head)<\/i><\/p>\n It’s a very faithful translation literally, but what’s behind<\/i><\/p>\n doesn’t People won’t go to such trouble…. Maybe one in a…. (silence)<\/i><\/p>\n Do you want to have it read by an Indian?<\/i><\/p>\n And ask him if he understands? Page 120<\/font><\/p>\n (Sujata suggests a young<\/i> teacher in the School. Yes, it has to be someone young. Some people believed that what we put in the Bulletin <\/i>last time was meant for the people of the Ashram. So I think we should put a note to say that’s not the case.<\/p>\n ???<\/i><\/p>\n The passage where I say, “Humans are crusted over.”[[Conversation of March 3, 1971. ]]<\/p>\n Yes.<\/i><\/p>\n Many people in the Ashram took it to mean themselves.<\/p>\n Well, maybe that’s not so wrong! I find I am myself rather<\/i><\/p>\n crusted (Mother laughs) <\/i>But I don’t want to say unpleasant things!<\/p>\n It’s rather healthy sometimes, you know.<\/i><\/p>\n You think we should leave it, then?<\/p>\n Well, I think…. I don’t know…. It seems so obvious to me,<\/i><\/p>\n you in us?<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n (Mother points to her body, laughing) <\/i>This isn’t! Well then, so let’s leave it.<\/p>\n I’ve finally understood that people don’t read things as they<\/i><\/p>\n are. desires.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Yes.<\/p>\n So those who want to understand wrong will understand<\/i><\/p>\n wrong Page 121<\/font><\/p>\n I’ve just reached the same conclusion. So I said: I won’t say anything anymore.<\/p>\n Yes, in the end, you stop speaking!<\/i> out — there are many.<\/i>\n <\/p>\n \n protests from a certain number of people, but there are many <\/i>\n <\/p>\n here, many more than … well, of course I can’t say "more than <\/i><\/p>\n you think"(!), but who are doing their job quietly and trying to<\/i><\/p>\n understand — there are many. And it helps them, it does them<\/i><\/p>\n good.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n To tell the truth, I really don’t care one way or another … But I don’t want to be mean.<\/p>\n Oh, come on, that’s not being mean!<\/i><\/p>\n (Mother goes within)<\/i> Page 122<\/font><\/p>\n <\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" May 5, 1971 I have some news from S. about the Russian translation [of “Supermanhood"]. The person who’s doing it has already translated the introduction…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12-volume-12","wpcat-149-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6658","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=6658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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(Sujata:) Only, those who do want to understand will lose<\/i><\/p>\n
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