My experience of Satprem

doing and the use of certain expedients, had regained some vigor – and that, with those, he would not be able to share the task that had yet to be accomplished. The Mother’s action was for the whole world and not for any institution, however enlightened it may be.

However this work, Satprem would not be able to do alone. Many would be those who would join him for a period of time and extraordinarily intense would be each of their experiences.

Fire burns.

It can cleanse, heal, it can illuminate, animate; it can also degrade and damage and ravage. In human relations, the distribution of roles is inevitable and automatic on the basis of the principle of mutual satisfaction – be it merely physical or emotional, or be it more refined, moral or even spiritual. I do believe that so long as we remain, so long as we continue to exist as per the laws of the “lower hemisphere” as Sri Aurobindo named it, so long as we are not recreated and recast, through the psychic being, by the principle of Unity - the reality of to-morrow –, none of us is yet possessed of the freedom needed in order to live and realize a true relation, creative and entire. Along the years I have often wished more proximity with Satprem; at times I even wished “to serve” and contribute physically, and it was comforting to learn one day, for instance, that a simple and generous being as “Cannelle” was then hired as gardener and handyman – we had worked on a few jobs together in France and I appreciated him as one does a rare jewel. I also believed for a while that the best solution was to establish a base of life and action for Satprem in Auroville itself. But I realized even then that this might generate a greater division in Auroville, not because of him, but because of what most around him might become, once their roles attributed.

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