Chapter 4July 12, 1972

It’s not always the same.

(silence)

The body tries to be entirely under the Divine’s Influence.

That’s its all-consuming preoccupation. The most external form is the mantra: the body spontaneously repeats the mantra, but that’s only the most external form.

It tries. It tries to... (gesture, hands open). It aspires and tries to receive nothing but the divine Force.

Food is still the big stumbling block. The body knows it must still eat, but it isn’t hungry; food just seems.... It eats out of habit and necessity.

It takes very little, though.

(Mother plunges in)

I am always late!... I think we should fix ten-thirty [instead of ten o’clock].

Well, if you say ten-thirty, it’ll mean eleven! [laughter]

Yes, yes! (Mother gives Satprem a little tap on the shoulder.)

What do you say?

Well, I say that Mother doesn’t talk much!

(silence)

Before, you... you talked more readily.

Yes.

(long silence)