|
|
Satprem
A recent letter (January 1999)
Une lettre récente (janvier 1999)
original at bottom - original en bas de page
In April 1999, I communicated a recent letter of Satprem to the AuroConference.
You will find below the text of my message, followed by my translation of Satprem's letter and then the original message in French.
En avril 1999, j'ai envoyé un message à AuroConf.
Vous trouverez ci-dessous le texte (anglais) de ce message, puis ma traduction de la lettre de Satprem en anglais, enfin l'original français du texte de Satprem.
Bernard
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:49:33 -0400
Subject: Recents news from Satprem
Sender:Bernard
To: Auroconf-List
Dear
Auroconferees,
Some weeks back, I happened to read the February 99 issue
of "Le Courrier de l'Institut de Recherches Evolutives". The IRE is, as you
know, the Institute in Paris which publishes Mother's Agenda and Satprem's and
Sujata's books.
In that issue there was a photocopied letter of Satprem who
was responding to an "anonymous" person who had written to "Le Courrier" and
had complainded to be "abandoned on the side of the path/way" because the
Institute would conceal Staprem's letters. And this anonymous accused the
Institut to want to "create again a new Ashram, blocking and censoring the
letters, and making of Satprem a private propriety of the Institute".
That
letter had been forwarded to Satprem who has written back the following
answer.
Sujata has added some lines.
I have tried to translate the
letters into English as good as my knowledge in English can do it (that is to
say, not very good). After the translation, you will find the original in
French for those who can read it directly, and who want perhaps translate it
better than I did.
I am not a fan of Satprem, and I don't want to take
part in the confrontation between Satprem, the Institute, the Ashram and
Auroville. But I have found of interest that Satprem writes something, and I
have thought that you could find it also of interest.
I believe that you can
understand that this posting has to be taken as a simple
information.
Everyone may, of course, reacts according to one's temper and
understanding.
In Sri Aurobindo's and Mother's Light and
Love
Bernard
Marseilles - France - April 28, 1999 - 07:45 PM at
GMT + 2
January 99
I don't
know if I have "thousands" of brothers and sisters, like you say it, but I feel
the Fate of the Earth in my heart, that is bleeding because of the centuries of
sorrow and of Falsehood.(or Lie/Untruth).
First a first
Falsehood/Lie/Untruth or a poison in your letter when you insinuate that we
want to "create again a new Ashram" at the Institute - or, if you don't blame
me for this singular ineptitude which belies (denies) all that I am being and
that I have been doing for so many years, you kindly blame my true brothers and
my true sisters who are busy at the
Institute in Paris. Really, you must be
totally idiotic or corrupted in your conscience if you can express such
thoughts.
But I understand/see - if I admit that you are sincere -
that you want to know the day-to-day progress of the Work... How far the
progress has come in a billion of reluctant atoms which inherits and absorbs
the Resistance or the virulent Negation of a billion of a billion of little
"human" - and lesser and lesser human - atoms. You can read the newspapers, set
your radios on and hear the "progress" of that huge and hypnotic
Falsehood/Lie/Untruth which prevails everywhere.
There, one is a
Shout/Cry, or a Prayer, or a Fire which is desperately burning for having
Something Else. There is no other "progress" than this Fire and this Prayer,
and everybody may be in his own way/manner a Fire or a Prayer, and it is the
only way/manner that that Something Else happens here and on the Earth. There
is no "formula", nor catechism, nor philosophical discourse for the
understanding and the part-taking in that "hastening of the Hour" Mother was
speaking of - if one were a hero, Mother said, one could hasten the Hour. There
is no other heroism or "progress" than those silent and praying and lonesome
steps/paces on a Boulevard or in a subway of here or there.
Everybody DIGS OUT in his own way in the muddy Night of the Earth.
It is the only Progress in the Work.
And a day WILL COME, I know it,
and it is the only thing I know, else I am in the same Night as you are in, and
I pray, I burn and I call, I call.
Facts will speak by themselves
(unaided), without discourses around them.
But I am keen to say it
again: if you speak of a "new Ashram", you are in the Poison and the
Falsehood/Lie/Untruth which wants to creep into each place, yes "the black and
sticky fingers" of the Falsehood/Lie/Untruth - into each place, sadly
everywhere.
But it will go by.
We are going elsewhere and
out of all this into that Future that pushes/urges in spite of all and of
everyone.
Satprem
***************
Dear
Anonymous,
"abandoned on the side of the path/way", you say ?
But how can you say that, if you are really walking on the Path/Way ? You
should have found some footprints which have preceded yours. Have you at any
time in your life TRIED to follow the Mother's Path/Way onto the future of the
earth ? Or is it still a PLAY OF THE MIND which you have played and are
continuing to play
?
Sujata
French original letters:
Janvier 99
Je ne sais pas si j'ai "des
milliers" de frères et soeurs, comme vous le dites - mais je sens le
Destin de la Terre dans mon coeur tout saignant de siècles de peine et
de Mensonge.
D'abord un premier Mensonge ou un poison dans votre
lettre lorsque vous insinuez que nous voulons "recréer un nouvel Ashram"
à l'Institut - ou si vous ne me mettez pas sur le dos cette
singulière ineptie qui dément tout ce que je suis et fais depuis
X années, vous le mettez obligeamment sur le dos des frères vrais
et des soeurs vraies qui s'occupent de notre Institut à Paris. Vraiment
il faut être tout à fait imbécile ou corrompu dans la
conscience pour émettre de pareilles pensées. Mais je
comprends - en admettant votre sincérité - que vous vouliez
savoir dans le quotidien le progrès du Travail... Où est le
progrès dans un milliard d'atomes récalcitrants qui hérite
et absorbe la Résistance ou la Négation virulente d'un milliard
de milliard de petits atomes "humains", et de moins en moins humains. Vous
pouvez lire les journaux, ouvrir vos radios pour entendre le "progrès"
de cet énorme Mensonge hypnotique qui règne partout.
Là-dedans, on est un Cri, ou une Prière, ou un Feu qui
brûle désespérément pour Autre Chose. Il n'y a pas
d'autre "progrès" que ce Feu et cette Prière, et chacun à
sa manière peut être un Feu ou une Prière, et c'est la
seule manière de faire Devenir cette Autre Chose ici et sur la Terre. Il
n'y a pas de "formule" ni de catéchisme ni de discours philosophiques
pour comprendre et participer à ce "hâter l'Heure" dont parlait
Mère - si l'on était un héros, disait Mère, on
pourrait hâter l'Heure. Il n'y a pas d'autre héroïsme ou
d'autre "progrès" que ces pas silencieux et priants et solitaires sur un
Boulevard ou un métro d'ici ou là.
Chacun CREUSE
à sa manière dans la Nuit bourbeuse de la Terre.
C'est le seul Progrès dans le Travail.
Et un jour VIENDRA, je
le sais, et c'est la seule chose que je sais, sinon je suis dans la même
Nuit que vous à prier et brûler et appeler-appeler.
Les
Faits parleront d'eux-mêmes, sans discours autour.
Mais je
tiens à le redire : si vous parlez de "nouvel Ashram", vous êtes
dans le Poison et le Mensonge qui veut s'insinuer partout, oui : "les doigts
noirs et gluants" du Mensonge - partout et tristement partout.
Mais
ça passera.
Nous allons ailleurs et hors de tout cela dans
cet Avenir qui pousse en dépit de tout et de
tous.
Satprem
**************
Monsieur l'Anonyme,
"laissés sur le bord du chemin" vous dites ? Mais comment
pouvez-vous le dire, si vraiment vous marchez sur le Chemin ? Vous auriez
dû trouver les traces des pas qui ont précédé les
vôtres. Avez-vous, à aucun moment de votre vie, ESSAYÉ de
suivre le Chemin de Mère vers l'avenir de la terre ? Ou c'est toujours
un JEU DU MENTAL que vous avez joué et continuez à jouer
?
Sujata
|
[