My experience of Satprem

Destinies?

From that day on we were left alone, relatively at peace.

From that day on too, I gave up on my side any “hope “of ever being “relieved” of my ill-repute. It was also around that time that Satprem, having completed his more outwards tasks and duties, could consecrate himself to a more concentrated effort.

Ajneyam Auragni, our daughter, was born on the 27 th of June 1982 at 9 am in the house of “Sincerity”, where I had built an additional room for D. and the child. The number 9 was a friendly confirmation, for D. had been born on a 9 th of February, I had been born on a 9 th of April and Auragni, the third, 3 times 9, 27 at 9 am… And Auragni was a great consolation for all our little dramas! However, as soon as D. was able to resume a daily activity for the community, she realized that positions had changed little and that she was no longer accorded the trust which she still needed so much. Auragni was not yet one year old when one early afternoon, returning from a purchasing trip in town, I discovered the terrible absence. D. had left the house and taken Auragni and all their things away in a bullock-cart which she had arranged for and had gone back “home to her people”… She made a first journey back to her family in Australia with Auragni, from where she attempted through the writing of numerous letters to restore some nearness between us. Far away from Auroville and left to her own feelings and perceptions she could freely write to me and we could try and share our respective experiences. I even envisaged the practical possibility of joining them a while in Australia so we could come to some clarity for the future. But D. could never recover what she had “lost”.

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