My experience of Satprem

He also mentioned, with unadorned pragmatism, the various measures he and Mother’s near entourage had to take and the medicines which had been prescribed for Her. Yet it was only when reading the last volumes of the Agenda several years later that we had confirmation, from Mother’s lips, of how much She knew and felt in Her very body everything that all around Her were thinking and wishing and how much these formations had tormented Her, She who had at the very same time the physical and material experience of a growing Presence here itself – and how the two “contrary” processes were at once accelerating… And by then we could also hear, on the recordings, Pranab’s barely controlled fury when Mother tried to remind him in front of Satprem of the possibility of a prolonged trance… One may wonder indefinitely and painfully – and no doubt uselessly – what could have happened if Satprem and Sujata had been part of the first circle around Mother. What is absolutely certain is that one would never have even conceived of the thought of exposing Her body to the crowd barely a few hours after Her heart had ceased to throb.

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