{"id":6727,"date":"2013-07-13T02:09:18","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=6727"},"modified":"2013-07-13T02:09:18","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:09:18","slug":"071-august-4-1971-vol-12-volume-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/03-agenda\/12-volume-12\/071-august-4-1971-vol-12-volume-12","title":{"rendered":"-071_August 4_1971.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><br \/>\n<H3>August 4, 1971<\/H3><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><i>(Mother makes several unsuccessful attempts to record her<\/i><P align=\"center\"><i>&nbsp;message in English for &#8220;All India Radio&#8221; for August 15,<\/i><P align=\"center\"><i>&nbsp;the beginning of Sri Aurobindo&#8217;s Centenary year.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Today is the first day of Sri Aurobindo&#8217;s centenary year. Though he has left his body he is still with us, alive and active.<br \/>\n<br \/>Sri Aurobindo belongs to the future; he is the messenger of the future. He still shows us the way to follow in order to hasten the realisation of a glorious future fashioned by the Divine Will.<br \/>\n<br \/>All those who want to collaborate for the progress of humanity and for India&#8217;s luminous destiny must unite in a clairvoyant aspiration and in an illumined work.<\/p>\n<p><P align=\"right\"><i>(Mother gives up, <br \/>Satprem makes the recording in her place)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>I am deep in transformation, that&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve lost control. What I could do before I can&#8217;t do anymore. I see, I clearly see the direction it will take, but it&#8217;s not there yet. So now I am good-for-nothing.<br \/>\n<P>My voice is completely ruined.<br \/>\n<P>It&#8217;s interesting only from a documentary standpoint [the present conditions], because when this experience ends, and the supermind really starts coming, things will change and it will have a mere historical value.<br \/>\n<P>It&#8217;s the most unpleasant moment&#8230;. The Power is here, you see, but the means of expressing it have not yet been created.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(silence)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>The old control is slipping away. It&#8217;s quite irksome for me &#8212; especially for eating, for instance, it&#8217;s very hard to swallow, to &#8230; oh!<br \/>\n<P>The body has simply a kind of &#8230; perception &#8212; a distant perception &#8212; of what the true supramental control will be, but it&#8217;s only<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 211<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><P>like this <i>(gesture into the distance), <\/i>almost like a promise, nothing more.<br \/>\n<P>Truly a transition between two worlds.<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 212<\/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>August 4, 1971 (Mother makes several unsuccessful attempts to record her&nbsp;message in English for &#8220;All India Radio&#8221; for August 15,&nbsp;the beginning of Sri Aurobindo&#8217;s Centenary&#8230;<\/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-6727","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\/6727","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=6727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}