March 6, 1965
(Mother looks at a letter not yet opened) I wrote something to K. and he must have replied … very indignantly, no doubt!
What did you tell him?
(Mother looks for a note) “We have faith in Sri Aurobindo, he represents for us something that we formulate for ourselves with the words we find the most adequate to express our experience. For us those words are obviously the best to formulate our experience. But if in our enthusiasm we were convinced that they are the only ones suitable to express correctly what Sri Aurobindo is and the experience he gave us, we would become dogmatic and would be on the verge of founding a religion.”
Oh, yes, indeed!
I had written to him (he had read something in White Roses) and he had answered me (he was indignant), “How can you say that Sri Aurobindo doesn’t express the WHOLE Lord, that Sri Aurobindo is only a part of the Lord!” I didn’t answer directly, I told him, “Take care not to become dogmatic….” And he has never understood anything.
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Soon afterwards
I have found some quotations from Sri Aurobindo … marvelous!
Yesterday, I wrote something to someone else (it was in English). There was first a quotation from Sri Aurobindo: “The Power that governs the world is at least as wise as you …” ([Mother laughs]
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don’t you know this quotation from Sri Aurobindo? It’s marvelous), “and you need not be consulted for its organization, God looks to it.” Something like that. Then, below, I put my message of February 21: Above all the complications of the so-called human wisdom stands the luminous simplicity of the Divine’s Grace, ready to act if we allow It to do so. And on the other page I wrote this in English (Mother looks for a note):
“In conscious communion with the Supreme Lord, I declare that I do what the Lord wants me to do so as to serve on earth His Truth and His Love.”[[As Mother's original note in English could not be found, it is retranslated here from the French. ]]
He had deplored (laughing) some accusations of mine against people, especially against the Catholic religion (although he isn’t a Catholic at all – he is a staunch Hindu), he thought it wasn’t wise from a legal standpoint and that I risked running into trouble (!) So I told him privately, “You know, the whole world’s opinion of me, everyone’s opinion is like zero, I couldn’t care less.” Then he gaped in horror! And I told him, “Here, now you will meditate on this in all humility,” and I gave him what you’ve just read.
But I don’t want it to get around. It came strongly on that occasion, like a necessity, I had to say that, but the time hasn’t come yet to declare it publicly.
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(Then Satprem asks Mother if he should “officially” inform his Tantric instructor that he has given up that discipline and now prefers to the Tantric attitude of personal effort that of abandon to the Force above.)
It’s better not to say anything, because he can’t understand.
You know, he is still in that state in which leaving one’s path is still regarded as leaving spirituality…. Why disturb him?
Maybe some day he will understand within…. But I have looked at the problem a lot and I think he has reached the summit of his present evolution – only in another life will he go farther. It would
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take a sort of inner catastrophe for it to be otherwise – I don’t wish a catastrophe on him. So it’s better to leave him alone.
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