At the feet of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo

13 March 1933

MYSELF: Mother, you know very well that I have the bad habit of letting out whatever I hear; I can’t hold back anything. Now there has come a strength in me not to speak to anybody all that you write to me, for, as I cannot reproduce things correctly, much misunderstanding and confusion are created.

SRI AUROBINDO: It is better to keep what is written in the book for yourself. If people could be relied on to receive or interpret rightly, it might not be perilous to tell them to others, but they cannot. Besides things kept for oneself have a greater power than if one lets them out to others.

(13.3.33)