{"id":6661,"date":"2013-07-13T02:08:58","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=6661"},"modified":"2013-07-13T02:08:58","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:08:58","slug":"024-march-6-1971-vol-12-volume-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/03-agenda\/12-volume-12\/024-march-6-1971-vol-12-volume-12","title":{"rendered":"-024_March 6_1971.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><H3>March 6, 1971<\/H3><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><i>(Mother calls Satprem in an hour and a half late.)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>It&#8217;s an invasion! An invasion&#8230;. It&#8217;s dreadful&#8230;. I don&#8217;t know what to do.<br \/>\n<P>And your news?<\/p>\n<p><i>My news!&#8230; I don&#8217;t know.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>Has the book come out yet?<\/p>\n<p><i>No. I hope towards the end of next week.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>The end!&#8230; People really need it. I get ten-page letters telling me &#8220;spiritual experiences&#8221; &#8212; which are completely in the vital. They don&#8217;t understand a thing. Even in Auroville they&#8217;re like that, they don&#8217;t understand.<br \/>\n<P>So I wrote &#8230; <i>(Mother tries to recall) <\/i>what did I write? &#8230; I don&#8217;t remember. <i>True spirituality&#8230; <\/i>I know I put <i>simplicity. <\/i>&#8220;True spirituality&#8221; in big letters.<br \/>\n<P>I should have put <i>true spirituality is VERY simple! (Mother laughs) That&#8217;s even better.<\/i><br \/>\n<P>And then quarrels over nothing, people wanting more money &#8212; oh, a subhumanity! And they think they&#8217;re&#8230;. You see, they are<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 63<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><P>grossly ignorant; they come here without experience, without knowledge, without preparation, and they think they are going to realize the Supermind right away&#8230;. It&#8217;s really pathetic.<br \/>\n<P>Some things are &#8230; they display reactions and attitudes one would be ashamed of in ordinary life.<br \/>\n<P>They need something to straighten them out.<\/p>\n<p><i>Mother, maybe we could publish in the next &quot;Bulletin&quot; part of<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;what<br \/>\n  you said the other day about your perception of people&#8217;s<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>inner condition and the frequent absence of flame.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>They&#8217;re going to despair.<\/p>\n<p><i>Maybe it will be a &#8220;challenge&#8221;!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>Can you read it to me?<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(reading)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>It&#8217;s good, it&#8217;s very good.<br \/>\n<P>Yes, that&#8217;s it, exactly it.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(long silence,<\/i><br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>Mother sits looking into the distance)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>Obviously there is a great change in the nature, I can see it. When I look at my body live, it&#8217;s as if I were seeing the body of someone completely new. Unfortunately it is &#8230; it lacks suppleness, I think.<br \/>\n<P>There&#8217;s this whole &#8220;formation&#8221; of age like this <i>(gesture all around Mother), <\/i>an almost subconscious idea that &#8220;she is old, she is old&#8230;.&#8221; It creates an atmosphere of resistance to the change. It almost creates a conflict in the being. Outwardly, it&#8217;s not so good. When I was sick, for example, I became increasingly bent over; now I would like to straighten up: the doctor says in a peremptory tone that if I tried to straighten up abruptly, I would break my back&#8230;. You see, things like that. &#8220;It&#8217;s impossible, impossible, impossible,&#8221; from every side.<br \/>\n<P>Don&#8217;t repeat that; I am telling you so that you keep it.<br \/>\n<P>So there&#8217;s only one solution for me&#8230;. Actually the only will that is all-powerful is the Divine Will &#8212; what He wants will be in spite of everything, or because of everything. That&#8217;s all. It&#8217;s not my concern. Only, it&#8217;s not going as fast as it could if circumstances were different. But probably that&#8217;s my own opinion. Probably it&#8217;s as good as it can be.<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 64<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><P>We&#8217;ll see! <i>(Mother laughs)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>Oh, I am counting very, very, very much on your book.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(Mother takes Satprem&#8217;s hands)<\/i><P align=\"center\"><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\">Page 65<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"right\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 6, 1971 (Mother calls Satprem in an hour and a half late.) It&#8217;s an invasion! An invasion&#8230;. It&#8217;s dreadful&#8230;. 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