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Paper-work and more paper-work… most of the day is spent typing and filing the
documents and letters Diane needs to be sent to her in Delhi.
… A.M comes to report on the experience he, Deepti, Arjun and K.T had in Madras
with the Press, with Karthikeyan and with the IG of Police. This seems to be a time
when things come together, a gathering of opportunities…
Yet, all day long, small disharmonies keep occurring – knocking objects, hitting a
door, missing chances…
… Jacq tells me at dinner that Navajata had only come for one night, but Kiran was
able to say to him what she had meant to say; he flew back to Delhi this morning –
perhaps even more determined to try and stop the Government from taking over!
*13-8-1980, Auroville:
We have roneotyped Bhaga’s open letter and a team is already distributing it in
Pondy, while another team is also there holding an Exhibition on Auroville…
*14-8-1980, Auroville:
G.M helps me drafting an answer to the article published in “The Indian Express”.
He also tells me of Satprem’s letter to Gl conveying his pain at the treatment we
are supposed to have meted out to M.D, adding that we deserve all these Court-
cases, being so shallow in our judgement… I wish, Mother, that I could see
Satprem, as I saw him again in my dreams…
… We have been receiving so many visitors… In the evening we receive a last group
near the structure, truly refined people; among them is a wonderful little boy,
named Sudir – a cousin of Kireet, apparently -, a living soul: our eyes meet and I
experience once more this radiating thing, like a ray of Your Light, coming through
my eyes and reaching for his inner being, and his response is so pure, so quiet and
surrendered, so filled with its own integrity… And I get a measure of the mixture
that is still there, of the purification still needed…
… We hear that the SAS and their cohorts are planning a collective meditation
tomorrow at 4 pm at Matrimandir, for all those who feel “concerned with the
Auroville problems”… I wonder then if we could perhaps all of us also sit there and
just… watch, silently watch…?
We have prepared for this document to be signed by each of us “I lay no claims on
any asset created in Auroville…” for Sri Aurobindo’s birthday…
*15-8-1980, Auroville:
One of my dreams was too strange: G.M and I have gone to look at those people
who have already gathered in the Gardens, and more of our people soon join us so
that each one of us has one of them in front, and we see men we have never seen
before, who bear that weird and cold look or vibration, a kind of mad self-belief,
that has been with the Nazis; it is chilling; and it is not easy not to respond to it,
but to simply watch, remaining centred, calm and free…
… Sri Aurobindo, You are 108!
… The police are there from the first hour, two van loads, and the DSP and the SP…
… We remain at Matrimandir the entire day; many of us come to sign the
document. We even hold our weekly “Envelopes” meeting in the office, as it is also
Friday…