Volume 10
June 28, 1969
Oh, I’ve received this from little S.U., again in relation to your book:
(Mother holds out a letter)
Sweet Mother,
What is the idea behind this sentence from the “Adventure”: “Unfortunately, the West has too much intelligence to have much clear vision to translate outwardly, while India, too full within, is not demanding enough to match what she lives with what she sees”?
(Mother smiles and dictates straight off)
It means that in the West (especially in France), the intellectual development has prevailed over the spiritual development and the contact with higher regions, while in India, the inner knowledge has remained more developed than the intellectual field.
We could put the sentence thus:
The West expresses more than it really knows.
India knows more than it really can express.
Enough!
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