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(Last year, after the death of General de Gaulle, Satprem’s<\/i>
friend Y.L. had met Andr\u00e9 Malraux at Verri\u00e8res; he immediate<\/i>
ly asked her, “Is the Mother still alive?” As Y.L. was a little<\/i>
taken aback, he added, “I went there before you, 33 years<\/i>
ago…. So I assume you know what they have been looking<\/i>
for in India….” Again a few days ago, Y.L. met Andr\u00e9<\/i>
Malraux after his cry “Volunteer for Bengal”; he said to her,<\/i>
“What is essential in the fight I’m going to wage for Bengal is<\/i>
to know the attitude and action of Pondicherry.” Y.L. therefore<\/i>
came to put the question directly to Mother. Mother asked,<\/i>
“When is Andr\u00e9 Malraux meeting Indira Gandhi?” “In<\/i>
November, in Paris.” Mother again asked, “When is Andr\u00e9<\/i>
Malraux thinking of coming to India?” “I don’t know.” Then<\/i>
Mother remained absorbed a long time and said, “He will only<\/i>
get THE answer when he arrives in India, because the answer is<\/i>
in him.” After meeting Indira Gandhi in Paris, Andr\u00e9 Malraux <\/i>
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will renounce his plan of action. Let us note that when Y.L.<\/i>
met him, he leafed through the Auroville pressbook and said,<\/i>
“All this is familiar — I’m part of it — I know this.” And closing<\/i>
the book, “It’s as if the sun had risen. And it goes down….<\/i>
And we begin again….” Y.L.
\nsimply replied: "And what<\/i>
if the sun has risen for
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Well, then?<\/p>\n
Do you know that Y.L., whom you saw a few days ago, met<\/i><\/p>\n
Malraux in Paris and gave him my article on Bangladesh, and <\/i>\n <\/p>\n
“On the Way to Supermanhood”? And this morning I received <\/i><\/p>\n
a note from Malraux.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Ah!<\/p>\n
A card. It’s nice. He simply says:<\/i>
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“Many thanks for ‘On the Way to Supermanhood,<\/i><\/p>\n
‘ about which one
\n of our mutual friends had spoken<\/i><\/p>\n
Page 253<\/font><\/p>\n to me — thank you also for thinking of sending it to<\/i><\/p>\n me."<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Good…. He said you were “my son”!<\/p>\n Oh!… Well, that’s not completely wrong.<\/i><\/p>\n I said it’s true! (Mother laughs merrily)<\/i> It seems he has a lot of authority over there?<\/p>\n Oh, indeed a lot, and not just in France, but all over the world. <\/i><\/p>\n If he says something, it’s a world event!<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Oh, then that’s good.<\/p>\n So I thought I would send him a little note …<\/i><\/p>\n Yes.<\/p>\n … in which I would tell him this:<\/i><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dear Mr. Malraux, I was very touched by your note thanking me for “On<\/p>\n the Way to Supermanhood.” Some fifteen years ago, in<\/p>\n this Ashram, I was teaching French classes to the young<\/p>\n Indian disciples, and I tried to tell them who Malraux <\/p>\n was, whose work I admired — today they remember and,<\/p>\n like me, are moved by your intervention on behalf of<\/p>\n Bangladesh. The problem is deeper, of course, as you well know.<\/p>\n What is at stake at the end of the present mental cycle is<\/p>\n the creation of a new man — that is what we are trying to<\/p>\n do here with the Mother and Sri Aurobindo. Great<\/p>\n Forces are at work here, in a humble way. And I am hap<\/p>\n py that “Supermanhood” did not leave you insensitive.<\/p>\n Indeed, its cry needs you and your capacity to grasp the<\/p>\n profound Sense of our human crisis.<\/p>\n May the Force of Sri Aurobindo and Mother be with<\/p>\n you. <\/p>\n Fraternally with you in the great Work to be accom<\/p>\n plished.<\/p>\n <\/i><\/p>\n Page 254<\/font><\/p>\n That’s good, that’s very good!<\/p>\n If a man like that were directly touched by you, it would be a<\/i><\/p>\n fantastic listens.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Oh! (Mother goes within for a long time)<\/i><\/p>\n What do you say, Mother?<\/i><\/p>\n I say nothing. (long silence)<\/i> I speak less and less.<\/p>\n Yes, Mother….<\/i><\/p>\n Only, all the time the Force is going like this (gesture of unrelenting Pressure). <\/i>It’s pressing on Matter for the transformation.<\/p>\n I don’t know, I feel the hour of great changes in the world is approaching.<\/i><\/p>\n Yes, yes.<\/p>\n I mean visible things.<\/i><\/p>\n Yes. And the Force is going like this very consciously (same gesture of pressure), <\/i>very consciously. In the smallest detail as well as on the whole, very consciously. When I am like this (gesture of being motionless and interiorized), <\/i>I am simply conscious of that Force (same gesture of pressure), <\/i>and then sometimes, a particular point (gesture of a ray being aimed) <\/i>or a detail goes consciously through … through the personality (I don’t know how to say it), and there it’s … it seems irresistible: curing someone, even getting a thief arrested (!), things like that. It’s strange. It’s curious. And more and more (Mother touches her hands) <\/i>impersonal. <\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October 2, 1971 (Last year, after the death of General de Gaulle, Satprem’s friend Y.L. had met Andr\u00e9 Malraux at Verri\u00e8res; he immediately asked her, “Is…<\/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-6679","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\/6679","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=6679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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