Chapter 2April 8, 1961

Yes, yes of course.

To finish this reading and assimilate it quietly. I don’t feel capable of writing at all, unless I can receive the inspiration.

But you will receive it!

Yes, I have faith in that.

I haven’t the slightest doubt. It’s a certainty, a certainty.

I have never written or spoken to X about this, but through mental contact I have told him I don’t know how many times: ‘Satprem has a work to accomplish that is INFINITELY more important than reciting mantras. If it can help him to discipline himself, fine, but it’s nothing more; he will not accomplish his work by reciting mantras. He has something to do and he will do it.’ I have hammered that into his head (Mother laughs).

So, petit, see you tomorrow.

After more than a month I have resumed my translation [of The Synthesis of Yoga], and I fell exactly – it’s splendid! – exactly on the passage that helped me understand what has happened, why there are all these difficulties. And the Synthesis and the Veda go hand in hand, so reading that passage brought some improvement; it’s like being able to shift position, you know, so that now it’s a bit better. Anyway....

* * * (Then Mother listens to a reading from the 1960 ‘Agenda.’ At the end, Satprem remarks, as though to

excuse himself for noting some apparently irrelevant details.)

All these things are interwoven, you see – each time, you seem to be adding a touch. Even a detail that doesn’t seem ‘relevant’ by itself becomes part of a gradually emerging picture when seen with the whole.

Yes, of course. But it’s basically a description of my sadhana, that’s all, and I always say that it will be