June 28, 1967
Regarding an Italian disciple
who has just come
… Her family wanted to baptize her child and they were beginning to quarrel (because I said, “We do not want baptism”), so they wrote to me in despair, saying, “We don’t know what we should do, because the whole family is against us and they’re constantly picking a quarrel with us.” So I wrote: “If they really want freedom, let them come and give birth to the child in Auroville! …” Oh, they were enthusiastic, she left right away!
Here, see the register! (Mother laughingly shows the notebook in which she noted a few days ago the first birth in Auroville.)
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