Raison d’être of Auroville

 1968, February 3rd: Excerpt from a conversation with Satprem:

Mother’s Agenda

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 28th[Auroville’s Inauguration 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 Anjani [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 she had written two days earlier for this conference in Delhi:]

India has become...

It was a vision of the thing that was translated into French words right away.

India has become the symbol representing of all the difficulties of modern humanity.

India will be the land of its resurrection, the resurrection of a higher and truer life.

And the clear vision: the same thing which in the history of the universe has made the earth the symbolic representation of the universe so as to be able to concentrate the work at one point, the same phenomenon is occurring now: India is the representation of all human difficulties on earth, and it is in India that there will be the... cure. And it is for that – it is FOR THAT that I was made to create Auroville.

It came, it was so clear and tremendously powerful!

Then I wrote that. I didn’t tell them how or why, but I told them: put that at the beginning of your paper, whatever it is; you can say anything you like, but this comes first.

It was very interesting. It remained the whole time, for more than an hour, such a strong clear vision, as if everything were becoming clear all of a sudden. I have often asked myself the question (not “asked”, but there was a straining to understand why it had become such a chaos here in India, with such sordid difficulties and all that like an accumulation), and everything became clear like that right away. It was really interesting. And then immediately it came: that’s why you created Auroville. I didn’t know it, you know, I was acting under pressure, and it was taking on greater and greater proportions (it’s becoming really terrestrial), and I wondered why... For some time I used to think that it was the only real possibility of preventing a war, but that seemed to me a slightly superficial explanation. And then all of a sudden it came: ah, that’s it!

And so, since it contained all that power, I said, “Put that”. We will see – they’ll understand nothing, but it doesn’t matter, that will act. And so I sent a short note.

On Auroville's "raison d'être?

And the occult link between the disciples, India, the Earth and the Universe. 

Compiled by Gilles G. 9th December

revised on 10.10.17