October 23, 1968
I’ve been given a quotation from Sri Aurobindo…. I find it very interesting.
"What happens is for the ‘best’ in this sense only
that the end will be a divine victory in spite of all
difficulties – that has been and always will be my
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seeing, my faith and my assurance – if you are
willing to accept it from me."
Sri Aurobindo
December 28, 1931
I find it very interesting. Because when people are told, “It will be for the best,” they always think it’s the best as they imagine it!
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(Mother goes into a meditation, then abruptly comes out of it:)
And your book? [[By the Body of the Earth or the Sannyasin. ]]
It’s not easy…. I am revising it.
Oh!
It’s a terrible work to do.
No, if one takes that attitude, one is never done with it! It will never reach the end. One revises following a certain current, then when one has reached the end, one enters another current, and then … It’s endless.
I knew a painter like that; he was a great painter: Gustave Moreau. But there are few paintings by him, because he was a man who kept doing his paintings over again. He would progress, his vision would progress, and his painting would always appear to him to be outside, unfinished – it couldn’t be finished! So it’s only when he died that they could get his paintings – there were many of them, and they were magnificent. Only, each of them was a movement towards something….
Have you seen his house? He left his house with all that was inside, they made it into a museum.
(silence)
Silence, that’s all I can offer you.
(meditation)
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