The Mother

Agenda

Volume 9

October 23, 1968

I've been given a quotation from Sri Aurobindo.... I find it very interesting.

“What happens is for the ‘best’ in this sense only that the end will be a divine victory in spite of all difficulties – that has been and always will be my seeing, my faith and my assurance – if you are willing to accept it from me.”

Sri Aurobindo
December 28, 1931
BCL, Volume 25. — The Mother

I find it very interesting. Because when people are told, “It will be for the best,” they always think it's the best as they imagine it!

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(Mother goes into a meditation, then abruptly comes out of it:)

And your book?¹

It's not easy.... I am revising it.

Oh!

It's a terrible work to do.

No, if one takes that attitude, one is never done with it! It will never reach the end. One revises following a certain current, then when one has reached the end, one enters another current, and then... It's endless.

I knew a painter like that; he was a great painter: Gustave Moreau. But there are few paintings by him, because he was a man who kept doing his paintings over again. He would progress, his vision would progress, and his painting would always appear to him to be outside, unfinished – it couldn't be finished! So it's only when he died that they could get his paintings – there were many of them, and they were magnificent. Only, each of them was a movement towards something....

Have you seen his house? He left his house with all that was inside, they made it into a museum.

(silence)

Silence, that's all I can offer you.

(meditation)

¹ By the Body of the Earth or the Sannyasin.

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