Savitri
A Legend and a Symbol

Chapter 7November 21, 1970

Book 11. November

(Mother translates a few extracts from Savitri, listens to half of the tenth chapter of Super-manhood

and remains absorbed most of the time.)

It goes on inside.

* * *

(To Sujata, after Satprem has left.)

On December 5 and 9, you two will come after the [collective] meditation. I won’t translate, but I want to listen to Supermanhood.118 It’s very good.... It’s more than very good: it opens the door to the future.

(Satprem reads the second part of chapter 10, “The Harmony.”)

“...When the gaze changes, one can rebuild, the world.”

(Mother opens her eyes wide

and plunges in again till the end)

It’s extraordinary! There is a sort of... a sort of EMOTION in it, which doesn’t belong to this world. It puts you into contact with a certain... I don’t know what to call it, but it’s like an emotion119 which is beyond the mind – beyond everything, everything, not only the mind but the intellectual.

118Satprem will not see Mother on those days: on December 3, she will fall seriously “ill.” It will be another dangerous