My experience of Satprem

And then…?

Each and every text published by Satprem afterwards was eagerly received and welcomed, as was each bit of news. And at times rumors went wild – it was said for instance that he had with Sujata decided to move onto some island and to call there a few select individuals so they could create, sheltered from any lesser influence, the base of a new existence upon earth. Then it was said that they had left the Southern hills for a secret refuge which almost no one would be allowed to know… I thought that, in all of this, there must mainly be the will not to be invaded, not to be seen or used as the saving raft by whoever would, unsatisfied, pretend to want and join into his quest. And it was with relief that I could mark how, little by little, he freed himself from all expectations and gained some distance. But I am in fact ignorant of the roles he has, or not, played in the unfolding of subsequent events in Auroville. I ignore, for example, whether Kireet Joshi’s and Roger A’s actions, making opportune use of the Central Government powers in order to eliminate all opposition and all attempt at synthesis which might contradict Roger’s views and objectives, had ever received Satprem’s explicit support. (Since those actions were contrary to the very spirit of Auroville, I would rather assume that he had not been informed and that he never would have, if informed, given them his moral assent but, in fact, I simply do not know.) He found the time, however, to write a few strong works, which provided a more tangible sense of the discovered “track”.

Of all his books, it is still “The Genesis of Superman” which remains to me the closest, even though the work in the body did not figure in it as yet. It is, besides,

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