The other day you were telling me to start this 'Sri Aurobindo' from any point at all....Yes, can't you write that way? I don't know. Perhaps I'm biased, but I feel that this book should flow from beginning to end.Oh, yesterday or the day before, I had the occasion to write a sentence about Sri Aurobindo. It was in English and wentsomething like this: In the world's history, what Sri Aurobindo represents is not a teaching nor even a revelation, but a decisive ACTION direct from the Supreme. (silence) I tell you this because just now as we were speaking about the book and you were saying it would come all at once in a single flow, I saw a kind of globe, like a sun - a sun shedding a twinkling dust of incandescent light (the sun was moving forward and this dust came twinkling in front of it), like this (gesture). It came towards you, then made a circle around you as if to say, 'Here is the formation.' It was magnificent! There was a creative warmth in it, a warmth like the sun's - a power of Truth. And here again, I was given the same impression: that what Sri Aurobindo has come to bring is not a teaching, not even a revelation, but a FORMIDABLE action coming direct from the Supreme. It is something pouring over the world. Your book should convey this feeling - without stating it. Convey the feeling, transmit it - transmit this solar light.page 91 - Mother's Agenda , volume 2 , 14th Feb 1961 |
| I want you to have enough time to write your book, because I feel that
Sri Aurobindo is interested in it - the sun that came a while ago was
from him. I feel he is interested and confident you can do it. page 91 - Mother's Agenda , volume 2 , 18th Feb 1961 |
Well, mon petit. And if you really want to please me (I believe you do!), if you want to please me, concentrate on the book on Sri Aurobindo - you can't imagine how much I am interested! And as I LOOK, I see into the future (not with this little consciousness), I see that it's a thing of GREAT importance. It will have a great action. So, I want to clear the way for you now, for us to have time. page 156 - Mother's Agenda - volume 2 , 7th April 1961 |
Ever since I've known that Sri Aurobindo attached importance to this book, I have been doing a great deal of 'looking.' I told you what I saw the other day, didn't I? ... You asked my advice in choosing the photos and you had picked the one of him in 'meditation' [Sri Aurobindo on his bed after he left his body]. Earlier, I had seen the photo of him young; and while I was looking at it, Sri Aurobindo was there and he suddenly took me thousands of years into the future - I've told you about this - and said to me, The beginning of the legend. Then I understood that this was the right photo for the book. Evidently he is making your book the starting point for all that will be thought and said and done upon earth on the intellectual plane. And I assure you that I am helping you and he is helping you! You must ask him.page 374 - - Mother's Agenda , volume 2 , 5th Nov. 1961 |
... But isn't this second book on Sri Aurobindo something imposed by circumstances? Is it really something that must be done, that already exists and has been decreed?Personally, I do see one. I see a Sri Aurobindo.... (silence) Almost no philosophy, nothing intellectual - almost a story. His work presented in an entirely practical and matter-of-fact way, like the talks I used to give to the children here. When I said to the children, "This, you know, is why you are here," I told them in a way they could understand, didn't I? Well the book should be like that. If I were to write (I will never write a book on Sri Aurobindo! Never, never, never - I know it), but were I ever to write a book on Sri Aurobindo, that's the book I would write, something like a fairy tale.... "Just imagine.... You see life, you see how it is, you are used to this sort of existence; and it's dreary and it's sad (some people find it entertaining - because it doesn't take much to entertain them!).... Well, behind it all there is a fairy tale. Something in the making, something that's going to be beautiful, beautiful, inexpressibly beautiful. And we shall take part in it.... You have no idea, you think you will forget everything when you die, leave it all behind you - but it's not true! And all who feel the call to a beautiful, luminous, joyous, progressive life, well ... they will all take part in it, in one way or another. You don't know now, but you will after a while.... There you are." A fairy tale. But do you feel inclined to tell a fairy tale?... It needn't be very long. And with pictures, mon petit! Pictures of all the outer activities, like a movie.... A lovely magazine full of pictures. This seems to me the only thing that could really be said, because that's all that can be seen. So you show all this, saying: "Yes ... but someone is trying to do something with all this. Look behind it, look at the lovely image, the lovely story behind.... And he was trying to draw that story down to earth, and it is sure to come. "And if you like, you too can help make that story come down to earth." Done like that, mon petit, the book could be delightful! Your first book is prophetic and most beautiful, but I must say it's something beyond most people's reach - it's really a book for us, to put us into contact with all who are interested in yoga, in the spiritual life: an elite. It is a book for an elite, not for the general public. What I see is almost a children's book, for a whole generation aged ten to eighteen, thousands of children.... With lovely pictures. page 170-71 - Mother's Agenda, volume 3, 29th May - 1962 |