{"id":6830,"date":"2013-07-13T02:09:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=6830"},"modified":"2013-07-13T02:09:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:09:51","slug":"18-march-8-1969-vol-10-volume-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/03-agenda\/10-volume-10\/18-march-8-1969-vol-10-volume-10","title":{"rendered":"-18_March 8_1969.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><H3>March 8, 1969<\/H3><br \/>\n<P><i>There&#8217;s a note from Monsignor R. [[P.L.&#8217;s friend. P.L. is the disciple in<br \/>\nthe Roman Curia. ]] First he asks, &quot;May I request<\/i><P><i>&nbsp;you to ask<br \/>\nMother to assist me these next few weeks in a special <\/i><br \/>\n<P><i>way? &#8230; <\/i><br \/>\n<P>Does he believe in it?!<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>Yes, he does!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 82<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><P align=\"center\">&nbsp;<P>Bah! &#8230;<br \/>\n<P>Do you have his photo?<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>Not here.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>Did you show it to me already? &#8230; Yes, then it&#8217;s all right, it&#8217;s useful to establish the contact.<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>Then he sends another note. In Rome they had the visit of Swami  <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Z, and our friend P.L. had lunch with him (because they took the<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;Swami to see the Pope, he had an audience with the Pope), they<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;had lunch together and, writes Msgr. R., &quot;The Swami declared<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;himself very happy about the audience with the Pope. He was<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;able to give one of his books to the Holy Father, who told him<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;(in English) that he liked India very much, that he thanked him <\/i>\n  <\/p>\n<p><i>for his spiritual work undertaken for the good of humanity, and<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;encouraged him to pursue his mission. The Pope gave him a<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;papal medal, and even added that he had great difficulty in devel<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>oping his spirituality owing to his present entourage &#8230;.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>Oh, this is interesting! &#8230; It&#8217;s interesting.<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><i>There are a few more lines: &quot;The Swami is convinced that if<br \/>\n  the<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;Pope weren&#8217;t obliged to remain in Rome to fulfill the<br \/>\n  functions<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>imposed on him, he would surely go to India in search of illumi<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>nation.&quot;<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>It&#8217;s interesting.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(long silence)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>This Consciousness isn&#8217;t working only here &#8230;.<br \/>\n<P>It&#8217;s good.<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 83<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"right\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 8, 1969 There&#8217;s a note from Monsignor R. [[P.L.&#8217;s friend. P.L. is the disciple in the Roman Curia. ]] First he asks, &quot;May I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10-volume-10","wpcat-150-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830","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=6830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}