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30: The Editing of Savitri—the Mother about Corrections
by RY Deshpande on Sun 23 Oct 2011 03:30 AM IST |
The Mother: Ah! (to André:) What will you say now? … I don’t understand anything anymore! (André laughs)
André: Well, Satprem would like to know what’s happening with his books….
The Mother: Yes, and he’s right.
Satprem: Yes. And by the same token, it would be good if we could know—if someone in the Ashram could know—what exactly M is doing with Sri Aurobindo’s books.
The Mother: Yes, quite.
Satprem: The fact is, nobody knows anything. They’re printing books, SABDA tries to sell them here and there—they have excellent promotional methods, but we have no idea what they are specifically. We don’t know what’s going on. It even goes … I’ll go further, Mother: for the last two years, I haven’t been able to put my hand on the corrections made to the film negatives, I mean the offset reproduction of the Centenary edition [of Sri Aurobindo's works].
The Mother: There were corrections made?
Satprem: Yes, there were. I know there were because M told me so. I asked him for a list….
The Mother: What corrections? Who made corrections?
Satprem: There’s a boy working with him who makes the corrections.
The Mother: But, look here, this is incredible! On the pretext that I can’t see to this myself, they don’t even show me!! They make corrections without telling me!
Satprem: I don’t know how serious these are, I have no idea.
The Mother: Oh, but “serious” or not, they CANNOT make corrections without asking me!
Satprem: True, Mother.
The Mother: Good heavens! … So what can we do now?
Satprem: Yes, Mother, you absolutely must have some sort of control over these people. I think the best way would be to call B. [sabda], M and André together, and have André spell out all the points in black and white.
The Mother: Oh, but André isn’t combative.
André: Yes, I am Mother! (laughter) I am convinced, but….
The Mother: No! I didn’t say “convinced,” I said “combative.”
André: Combative? Oh, I am not at all combative, Mother!
The Mother: I know. That’s just what I said.
André: I am not at all combative, because … I try to see through their eyes, and then I don’t know who’s right anymore!
The Mother: Yes! (laughter) That’s exactly the point.
Satprem: But the two basic things to ask them are their production and their distribution. That’s all.
André: Yes, right.
The Mother: Oh, yes! I ask them, you know. But they say I can’t see anymore…. True, I can’t see—I see, but … it’s a mixed vision. It’s interesting (I wouldn’t wish it on anybody, because the people who would see with it … ). I see what is true in things from the supramental point of view. And it’s extremely interesting. I hear sounds that people don’t usually hear, because these sounds have a supramental reality. I can see…. When people talk to me, I see at the same time not only what they think (that’s old hat), but what’s true from the supramental point of view. All the time it is like that. Both together. Because my body has no longer the same … (what’s the word?) … I am strong, but the old type of energy is gone; and the one that replaces it is far more powerful—but I don’t like to talk about it. When I do, I appear to be boasting. So I don’t say anything. I tell you now so you’ll understand.
22 July 1972
