The Mother

Agenda

Volume 9

January 17, 1968

(Regarding an old conversation of Mother's on “Savitri,”
noted down from memory by a young disciple.)

They're so happy, so enthusiastic! Everyone comes and says, “Oh, how fine it is!” I thought, “How much must one err for people to find it fine! When one no longer errs, they no longer like it.” There you are.

And they want to publish it.

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Soon afterwards, regarding a passage from the same text on “Savitri”

Sri Aurobindo used to write at night, and in the night I would have the experience; in the morning he would read it to me and I would recognize my experience – I hadn't said anything to him, he hadn't said anything to me. Interesting...

But one always seems to be boasting, that's the trouble. No, in reality, one can SAY a thing like this, but writing and publishing it is quite another matter.