Living in The Presence

The Hour of God: a dance-drama

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share here with the readers my letter and the Mother's reply to it:

Mother Divine,
    We have started our work on The Hour of God. We want our labour to be a true offering to You and to Sri Aurobindo.

    Mother, I want to bring to your kind attention that this idea of dividing The Hour of God into three parts and developing each part with suitable lines from Sri Aurobindo is mine, although K has never thought it necessary to mention it to You. When it was necessary to divide the text, prepare the framework of the whole programme, K took my help because it Was my idea and she did not know anything about it before. When that was done she started neglecting me completely. She began discussing with B and C, and has been deciding everything and occasionally letting me know. Sometimes she forgets to do even that. She perhaps thinks that this programme is part of her 'Saturday Programme' and has started organising it herself. She contacted S, V, M etc. and instructed them on their parts. I felt bad, Mother, because, as You know I had an earnest desire to give expression to my own creation, which I could not. Anyway, I have not said anything to K so far. I took it as an opportunity to progress a step forward. Recently she has started behaving so rudely with me that it has become very difficult to work peacefully. She never informs me about the work, she does not even recognise me at times. Mother, pray remove this unfriendly feeling from us.

    Mother Divine, I think You are well aware of the fact that S, K, B, and myself are organising the whole programme, that is - each one is composing or directing a portion of the whole. I feel, Mother, it is necessary to have one of us as a general organiser because there must be one person to connect all the different scenes. B and myself, we think that as S is senior to us and the most experienced in stagecraft among us, she can be the general organiser of this programme. This will quietly avoid a lot of disharmony. Mother, pray for your approval.

    My pranams at Thy feet,

Shobha

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    Blessings.

The Mother)

    Inside the card was the following message in French which I reproduce here for the readers.

    English translation:
    (Happy Birthday to Shobha with my blessings, so that you can keep humility in your heart, for it is this that takes you most certainly to the realisation of the Divine.

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