Chapter 11April 29, 1971

Yes, good idea.

(silence)

The trouble is that when several of them are here together, they talk among themselves, I don’t hear. So....

If it would help, I can be there.

I think it would.

(long silence

Mother goes within)

I really feel it is necessary to start again on a new basis and the entire place must be swept clean of all those people. We have to start afresh in a new location and make them work.

Yes, but how about the accommodations?

In the meantime they could live in huts, which they would build themselves.

But they’re in huts.

I mean with thatched roofs.

(silence)

I’ll see.

I’ll try to arrange something. I’ll tell you Saturday.

(These few words were said to Sujata at the time of her daily visit to Mother. Mother first asks about

Sujata, then about Satprem. Then she sits absorbed.)

The world is going mad.