Chapter 3October 10, 1970

In principle, if all goes normally, I think the book will be finished in four months, around February.112 Then we could launch the introduction everywhere at the same time.

Yes, that’s right. In February.

(long silence)

Mother, I pray for the transmission to be pure and faithful.... That’s what gives me anguish.

(Mother nods her head) It’s good.

(Satprem lays his forehead on Mother’s knees)

(Mother gives “Transformation” flowers and slips one into her buttonhole, then mentions again the

translation of the introduction of On the Way to Supermanhood.)

I also thought I would ask Shu-Hu to do it in Chinese. That would be good.

Shall I ask him for you?

Yes, tell him that I ask him to do it, if he wants to. If we could send it to China... There’s a Chinese in Santiniketan, but I am no longer in touch with him (he gave all his goods to Communist China, and he’s staying there). He’s a philosopher, a very intelligent man.... But anyway, for the translation it should be Shu-Hu.

For the German, I don’t know.... We have many Germans, but I don’t know. As for the book, it will do like The Adventure, it will spread little by little.

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(Then Satprem reads the first chapter: “The Mental Fortress.”

Mother stops at the following sentence:)