My experience of Satprem

How to serve?

Centers of interest and “causes” to be served came into position, each having its exclusivism, while they were in fact complementary…: the construction of the Matrimandir – the “green” work – the services and the collective organization – the means of survival and the search for autonomy – the safeguarding of “Mother’s Agenda”… Satprem, depository with Sujata of hundreds of hours of tape-recordings of conversations with Mother over more than twenty years, had proposed to publish its integrality, without any omission or alteration, under the title “Agenda of the Supramental Action upon the Earth”. The Ashram authorities did not want that the whole of it be published but only those parts that according to them could be broadcast. Satprem refused to do this operation and chose to move away from the Ashram and to do the entire work of transcription and then of translation with others – among whom a number of the Auroville inhabitants. This decision triggered many anxious concerns, both in the Ashram and in the Sri Aurobindo Society, and there ensued a virulent resentment against Satprem.

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