January 24, 1968

(Satprem prepares to leave Mother at the usual time,

 around 11:30.)

It's going to be a hard month...

Oh! ...

The days you come are the only ones in the week when I can eat at noon. The other days, I am so late that if I take my lunch, I can't have a bath, so I skip lunch. [[Mother usually has a bath around 2:30 P.M. ]] So lunch is ... But in reality, I am very happy.

No, a whole internal reorganization is going on.... We'll see. We're still in a period of transition.

A sort of mechanical fixity is probably going to disappear, that's my belief; it's the first thing that will change, a sort of mechanical fixity that was necessary to ... You understand, physical life was extremely mechanical so as to be able to function normally; well,

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 that's what is now disappearing. But the transition is difficult. There.

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