December 20, 1961 (Satprem reads Mother some extracts from the letter he has just received from his publisher in Paris.) I'm skipping over the carefully phrased introduction.... 'Dear Sir ... I must begin by telling you that although this text is an excellent essay, it is not, in its present form, a book for the "Spiritual Masters" series. Let us enumerate the reasons for this. First of all, the general impression is of an ABSTRACT text. I can straight-away imagine your reaction to this and I dread misunderstandings! But putting myself in the reader's place, since, once again, it does involve a collection intended for a wide public that we are beginning to know well,