The Mother
Agenda
Volume 3
March 3, 1962
Here's a strange aphorism....
Ah! .. Read it to me.
76 – Europe prides herself on her practical and scientific organisation and efficiency. I am waiting till her organisation is perfect; then a child shall destroy her.
That's embarrassing....
It's terribly embarrassing.
Let's pass it over in silence.
I would be curious to know what Sri Aurobindo meant by it.
I did know, but I hastened to forget it
I knew it when he was still in his body.
Once or twice it came back and each time I sort of (gesture) locked it away in a cupboard.
We'll see.
It's better left unsaid.
I once knew what he meant – right now I don't remember.1
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After the work, concerning a note written by Satprem:
I don't want to tire your eyes with my abominable handwriting.
I can easily read your handwriting.
There's a big difference between people who think about what they write and those who write without thinking. With the latter, even when their handwriting is ostensibly clear, there is a faint cloud and I understand nothing – the words seem to dance. It's the same for speech; people who speak without thinking simply make a humming noise – the words pour out but I understand nothing.
1 Nine years later, Mother will remember and on December 11, 1971, find it, on the contrary, very good to say – for the time had come.