January 6, 1965
(About the music composed by Sunil for January 1, 1965:)
It’s odd, all that music of the past, European music, which I knew very well and admired, it seems to me almost void of substance, while here, there is a contact right up above: you plunge into it instantly.
Yes, that’s right. When I heard his music for the first time, something suddenly opened up and I was right in the middle of the place I know, from which true Harmony comes – suddenly.
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(A little later, regarding the serious operation Satprem has just undergone:)
… Don’t let people eat you up.
And I would like to be what you want me to be.
Yes, mon petit. I want you to be peaceful, happy, luminous, and … (Mother draws great waves in the air) living in the eternal Becoming – the sense of eternity, always. That’s what I want. Because … the opening up above is there, you have it – it is there and there is a descent; it’s the bustle outside that is tiring.
Take some rest, and by that I mean letting oneself flow into the eternal Movement without tensing up, without thinking, “I’ve got this to do, that to do, and this and that….”
Don’t let people pester you. I have told Sujata….
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