with Sri Ganesh

they offer to Sri Ganesh Rs. 1,000/- and they leave. But Deepti, who has come on her own, stays on through the entire puja and insists that I must not feel shy or self-conscious and that I must go through every step of it as if she was not there, swearing she will not be offended. And so, trusting her, I jump in and sing several slokas and mantras and, later, I see that she seems genuinely happy and appreciative and calm… … I finally choose not to write any long reply to Manikandan, but to note only a few words on his own letter: “There is untruth in this”. The thing is that he has either misrepresented his present situation to members of his own family, or he has calculated that I would not find it easy to refuse him, even though we have had the understanding that I would only help him personally for his own daily needs until he would find again some work or activity in Auroville through which he could get his maintenance. And he knows very well that my budget is already fully allotted…

Sri Ganesh, I am very sorry this morning – my service is so clumsy and unequal and subject to disturbances: it is not alright.

But today, as if a reassurance, You are so light and tender, Like a boy, a lovely quiet youth, Filled with the tranquil sap Of the forest =

His movements those Of gentlest knowledge And finest seeing.

- 20-04-09:

When the Knowledge is at once Vast and Deep and Direct, Peace Radiates And, In that Peace beyond All illusion, Love that is True

Can begin To Spread, The Bright Luminous Red, Unfurling,

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