Chapter 2April 3, 1971

(On this day Mother gave the following message for the opening of the sports season.)

“We are at one of those Hours of God, when the old bases get shaken, and there is a great

confusion; but it is a wonderful opportunity for those who want to leap forward, the possibility of progress is exceptional.

Will you not be of those who take advantage of it? Let your body be prepared through physical education for this great change!”

(Another sign of the times. This conversation concerns one of the Ashram presses which was, despite Mother’s instructions, about to sell fraudulently a cheaper edition of “Supermanhood” in Europe and Canada, while the rights to the book were reserved. This cheaper edition was exclusively intended for India. Satprem protests in particular against the jacket and presentation of the book, which are patently designed to make as much money as possible at a minimum cost. Mother’s face is swollen, her

eyes too.)

I am disgusted. I can’t trust anyone!

They’re selling books the way you’d sell margarine or peanuts.

When someone lies like that, it’s finished. I can’t trust him anymore. You have to be very thick-skinned to lie to my face.

I can order them to stop everything.

No, Mother. If it’s for the presentation, people won’t see the difference.

That’s true!

Then I’ll speak to M. [the manager of the press] about it, or would you rather speak to him yourself?