Champaklal Speaks

Bad Temper

1949-11-16

Copies of the latest number of the Bulletin had arrived. Mother gave me one. I said: “I don't need.”

Mother: “You don't need it?” She repeated the question three times.

C: “No, Mother. I don't need it.”

Mother: “You are not interested in this?” She opened Bulletin and showed me Sri Aurobindo's article. “You are not interested in this? Have I given you the previous one?”

C: “No. I have two numbers.”

Mother went in, brought the others and said: “Take these, I give you four numbers.”

C: “But Mother, I don't need.”

Mother: “Bad temper! What is the matter? Take it, it will do you good.” Then I took two numbers.

You want to know why I behaved this way? You know that I used to pass into different moods. At this particular period I was feeling that anyway I was not going to understand what was written in the Bulletin and I saw no point in taking copies and keeping them. But you see how, in her compassion, the Mother dealt with the situation. It was typical.