Very long ago (very long, a few years after Sri Aurobindo left), one night (because I was already seeing him), I saw him: I had gone to his place, and I found him sitting on a sort of bed ... with a truss: three or four bandages like that on his body! (Mother laughs) So he called me and said (in English), "Look! Look what they're doing with me! Look, they're putting bandages all over me!" So I inquired - and found that they wanted to make cuts in his writings .... Ooh!I said, "Be careful! Here is what he thinks of your cuts." [[Numerous texts were nevertheless censored in the so-called "complete" edition of Sri Aurobindo's works (the "Centenary Library"), in particular letters about the Ashram. As an illustration, we publish in addendum two of those censored letters, to make the intention plain. ]] It's like that, thoroughly familiar, but very expressive. page 255 , Mother's Agenda , volume 10 , 23rd July - 1969 |