The Spirit of Auroville

You know that scores of people have come for Auroville.... Instead of working, they spend their time talking and chatting! And they send me letters. Their whole mental ego is bubbling with excitement, all of them. Have you seen them?   No. I am afraid they may "summon" me!   They've already begun discussing what the city's political situation will be - even before the first stone has been laid! And one of them, the one with a Communist creed (he is the one who has the greatest energy and power of realization), is scandalized: he wrote to me yesterday, saying he couldn't take part in something that wasn't "purely democratic"! ... So I answered him this  (Mother hands Satprem her note) :   "Auroville must be at the service of the Truth, beyond all social, political and religious convictions."   I told him many things  (Mother makes a gesture of mental communication) , but above all, I insisted a lot on the fact that it would be better to buil...

  1968, February 3 rd :  Excerpt from a conversation with Satprem: M other’s  A genda Taped conversation  in French. ... They wanted to make some kind of brochure on Auroville, to distribute to the press, people in the government, etc., on the 28 th [ Auroville’s  Inaugura tion Ceremony ] ,  and before that, there’s a conference of all nations (“all nations” is an exaggeration, but anyway they say “all nations” in Delhi, in two or three days. And  Anja n i   [Dayanand]  is going there, and she wants to take papers on Auroville. They had prepared some texts – always lengthy, never-ending: speeches and more speeches. So I asked, I concentrated to know what should be said. And then all of a sudden Sri Aurobindo gave me a revelation. That was interesting. I concentrated to know the why, the how, etc., then all of  a sudden Sri Aurobindo said... [ Mother reads  the message   sh e  had  writt en two days earlier  for t...