The Mother

Agenda

Volume 12

April 3, 1971

(Another sign of the times. This conversation concerns one of the Ashram presses which was, despite Mother's instructions, about to sell fraudulently a cheaper edition of “Supermanhood” in Europe and Canada, while the rights to the book were reserved. This cheaper edition was exclusively intended for India. Satprem protests in particular against the jacket and presentation of the book, which are patently designed to make as much money as possible at a minimum cost. Mother's face is swollen, her eyes too.)

I am disgusted. I can't trust anyone!

They're selling books the way you'd sell margarine or peanuts.

When someone lies like that, it's finished. I can't trust him anymore. You have to be very thick-skinned to lie to my face.

I can order them to stop everything.

No, Mother. If it's for the presentation, people won't see the difference.

That's true!

Then I'll speak to M. [the manager of the press] about it, or would you rather speak to him yourself?

I can speak to him, but it would be good if you tell him also.

I'll tell him in any case.

Well....

(Mother sighs and goes within)