Chapter 6June 17, 1972

“Wouldn’t it be better to live in the Ashram to help the Work more effectively?”)

I really think she should stay in France.

Coming here is difficult. Did you read what Sri Aurobindo said about the Ashram? He said that the Ashram symbolized all the difficulties to be resolved, so after a while people coming from the outside are beset with difficulties instead of finding help. It’s much better for her to stay where she is.

But you can assure her that I FEEL her very well, and that I am with her, my help is very consciously with her.

(Mother gives Sujata and Satprem a garland of “Patience’)

One needs a lot, a lot, a whole lot of it.

Yes!

The signs are increasingly clear, but what PATIENCE one needs!

The slightest wrong movement immediately provokes a dreadful discomfort. The merest trifle.

Life is tolerable only like this (Mother opens her hands upwards). The body – the body itself – feels like a little baby cradled in the arms of the Lord. But if it leaves this attitude only for a few seconds, it feels it’s like death – instant dissolution. That’s how it is.

The shortest hours are at night, from 8:30 at night till 6 in the morning – I don’t sleep, but... (immense, silent gesture).

Then it’s fine.

(silence)

What about you, what do you say?

I wish all the recesses of my being would open up.

Mon petit, it’s patience, patience, patience, patience.