Chapter 40August 16, 1960

(After Pavitra leaves)

I’m continuing The Yoga of Self-Perfection. It’s really something ... I shall never tire of saying it’s ‘fabulous.’ Everything, absolutely everything, in detail, everything is there. And he foresaw – foresaw, gave the remedy; foresaw, gave the remedy; foresaw, gave ...

Have you read it?

Long back.

What have you brought me?

Ah!

... to prepare for the book.192 I haven’t quite finished, but nearly. Everyday I force myself to read (well, not exactly ‘force )...

But that one also is ex-traor-dinary! ...

Yes, there are many things.

What is so interesting in it is this insistence on the divinity of man ... If that – this feeling of the inner divinity – could be established in oneself in a constant way (I’ve seen this for most people I know), so MANY things would ... There is no need for any effort at all, things fall away from you like dust.

There is no need to react against difficulties; you are immediately pulled out of them, as if you were taken out like this (gesture of pulling someone out of a difficulty with her two fingers).

(Letter from Mother to Satprem regarding the first copy of his first book, L’Orpailleur)

8.16.60 192Sri Aurobindo and the Transformation of the World, an initial book on Sri Aurobindo by Satprem that was never