I sent you this note, can it be used for something?<\/p>\n
Yes, Mother, certainly.<\/i>
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"Difficult periods come on earth to compel men<\/p>\n
to overcome their
\n small personal egoism and to<\/p>\n
turn exclusively to the Divine for help and light.<\/p>\n
The wisdom of men is ignorant. Only the Divine<\/p>\n
knows."<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
It came imperiously.
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What wants Peace and Harmony was in me and….[[Mother is alluding to the Bangladesh war. Mother’s note was probably written in reference to that war. ]] I was feeling a sort of pressure, and that came. It came imperatively — plain, imperative. Without that, men would never have progressed — they would never progress.
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(silence)<\/i>
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That war is very absorbing.<\/p>\n
The war?<\/i><\/p>\n
Yes, it’s day and night, day and night….<\/p>\n
Unfortunately you get the impression that in the west [the<\/i><\/p>\n
western front with Pakistan, i.e., Kashmir and Rajasthan], they<\/i><\/p>\n
don’t want to do anything. Indira has declared that India had<\/i><\/p>\n
Page 332<\/font><\/p>\n absolutely no interest in the breakup of Pakistan: "Not at all<\/i><\/p>\n interested."[[Mrs. Gandhi stated that India has nothing against all.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n (Mother sits absorbed for a very long time)<\/i> There’s nothing?<\/p>\n No, it’s late, Mother.<\/i><\/p>\n What time is it?<\/p>\n Twenty-two past eleven.<\/i><\/p>\n Twenty-two past ten.<\/p>\n No, twenty-two past eleven!<\/i><\/p>\n Oh!… This war is…. I am busy all the time, all the time. We get letters from the front; several generals and high-ranking officers say they feel my presence all the time. And it’s true, I am busy all the time.<\/p>\n Did they tell you that the Americans are there with their<\/i><\/p>\n "nuclear They’re not there yet, it seems. It’s not quite sure — they’ve sent it, but it’s not quite sure.[[“Not sure” that they will go as far as Bangladesh to help the retreating Pakistani army. ]]<\/p>\n They’re completely mad.<\/i><\/p>\n Yes, that would be a disaster.<\/p>\n They’re mad — and stupid.<\/i><\/p>\n Yes. That president should be toppled. [[Watergate will break out six months later, on June 17, 1972. ]] Page 333<\/font><\/p>\n Oh, yes! Yes.<\/i><\/p>\n The one they want to put in his place is a friend of India. But no one likes that … [Nixon], only a minority supports him — not everyone. They should just … (gesture of sweeping clean).<\/i><\/p>\n Can’t you arrange that?<\/i><\/p>\n (Mother laughs a lot)<\/i> … I am constantly busy. Page 334<\/font><\/p>\n <\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" December 15, 1971 I sent you this note, can it be used for something? Yes, Mother, certainly. "Difficult periods come on earth to compel men…<\/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-6659","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\/6659","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=6659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n breakup of Pakistan." (The Hindu, 11 December 1971) ]] They just want to
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