{"id":6814,"date":"2013-07-13T02:09:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=6814"},"modified":"2013-07-13T02:09:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:09:47","slug":"54-august-2-1969-vol-10-volume-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/03-agenda\/10-volume-10\/54-august-2-1969-vol-10-volume-10","title":{"rendered":"54_August 2_1969.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><H3>August 2, 1969<\/H3><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>I&#8217;ve received a line from P.L. He is arriving on the 8th. He<br \/>\n  just<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;writes this: &quot;The distress of these last few weeks is<br \/>\n  slowly turn<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>ing into strength and calm &#8230;. I confess that I suffered a good<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;deal from my failure regarding the Vatican, but after what you<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;conveyed to me from Mother, everything is growing clearer &#8230;&quot;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;Yes, I had told him that it wasn&#8217;t at all a question of outer<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;triumph or failure, that the simple fact of his PRESENCE there<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;acted as a kind of &quot;relay&quot; enabling the Light to enter there-the<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;very fact of his being there. That&#8217;s what I had told him.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>As for me, I&#8217;ll add something. You understand, they made an attempt to unify all of Christendom, and the Pope went to Geneva to unite with the Protestants &#8211; which wouldn&#8217;t have been so good. That&#8217;s not the thing needed, because it would have strengthened Christianity &#8211; division takes away some of its power. It&#8217;s the unification of ALL religions that&#8217;s needed, not the unification of Christianity &#8211; they haven&#8217;t reached that point. So after looking a good deal, I saw it was, on the contrary, a divine grace that it didn&#8217;t work out.<br \/>\n<P>If you have the opportunity, you can tell him that.<br \/>\n<P>I don&#8217;t know if he himself is still Christian &#8230;.<br \/>\n<P>All that gives strength to Christianity isn&#8217;t good. Christianity hoped to dominate the earth, and it&#8217;s this division that prevented its domination. In other words, I don&#8217;t think uniting with the Protestants would help the general work of unification. And for the time being, they can&#8217;t in the least conceive of anything else than putting all Christians together.<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"center\">***<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P><i>Soon afterwards<\/i><br \/>\n<P>I am reading Savitri, the second Book, I think, the transformation of the King, his experience. [[Book Two, Canto XIV, &quot;The World-Soul.&quot; ]]  I had read it very long ago, I didn&#8217;t remember at all, not at all; these days I have been reading it again &#8230; and it&#8217;s like a detailed description of the experience my body is now having! Ex-traor-di-nar-y. When I read it again, I was flabbergasted.<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 277<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><P>It&#8217;s absolutely as if my body were trying to copy that! And I didn&#8217;t remember at all, not in the least &#8230;. which would mean that Sri Aurobindo had SEEN the thing &#8211; did he see it, or did he experience it? I don&#8217;t know &#8230; And that&#8217;s what he regards as the supramentalization of the physical being. Do you remember that in Savitri?<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>I&#8217;ll read it again.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P align=\"center\"><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"center\">***<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P><i>Towards the end<\/i><br \/>\n<P>Have you seen that healer&#8217;s letter?<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>Yes, and I was struck by one thing: the impression of a<br \/>\n  natural <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>absence of ego in this man.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>It looks like that, indeed.<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>At no point did I feel an &quot;I&quot; in that.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>Yes, that&#8217;s right, it&#8217;s very interesting. We must have him come.<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>He said he would come towards September, but that his means<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;are<br \/>\n  limited and the duration of his stay will depend on financial<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;conditions here.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>But here, he won&#8217;t be asked to give any money, that&#8217;s all. He won&#8217;t have to pay If he agreed to show us what he can do, it would be the other way round (laughing), HE would be giving to us!<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>But when you see-him, you&#8217;ll understand the kind of force he<br \/>\n  is<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;in relation with.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>Yes. Oh, but I already understand. It&#8217;s very interesting.<br \/>\n<P>But I&#8217;d like to have the physical contact so as to see.<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 278<\/font><P align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"right\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 2, 1969 I&#8217;ve received a line from P.L. He is arriving on the 8th. 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