The Mother: To be sure of always having some, they hoard it.  But if people understood that one should be like a receiving and transmitting station and that the wider the range (just the opposite of personal), the more impersonal, comprehensive and wide it is, the most force it can hold (“force” that is translated materially: notes and coins). This power to hold is proportional to the capacity to use the money in the best way — “best” in terms of the general progress: the widest vision, the greatest understanding and the most enlightened, exact and true usage, not according to the warped needs of the ego but according to the general need of the earth for its evolution and development.  That is to say, the widest vision will have the largest capacity.


The Mother: Behind all wrong movements, there is a true movement; there is a joy in being able to direct, utilise, organise in such a way that there is a minimum of waste and the maximum of result.  It is a very interesting vision to have. And this must be the true side in people who want to accumulate money: it is the capacity to use it on a very large scale. Then, there are those who very much like to have it and spend it; that is something else — they are generous natures, neither regulated nor organised. But the joy of being able to satisfy all needs, all necessities, is good.


The Mother: It is like the joy of changing a sickness into health, a falsehood into truth, a suffering into joy; it is the same thing: to change an artiﬁcial and foolish need — which does not correspond to anything natural — into a possibility which becomes something quite natural. So much money is needed to do this or that or  the other, so much is needed to arrange this, to repair that, to build this, to organise that — that is good. And I understand that people like to be the channels through which the money goes exactly where it is needed. That must be the true movement in people who like to... translated into foolish egoism, who need to appropriate.  When the need to accumulate and the need to spend (which are both blind and ignorant) are combined


The Mother: , they can lead to a clear vision and a most efﬁcient utilisation. That is good.  Then there comes, slowly and slowly, the possibility of putting it into practice.  But, naturally, the need is for very clear heads and for intermediaries of high integrity (!) to be able to be everywhere at the same time and do all at the same time. Then this famous question of money would be solved.


The Mother: Money does not belong to anybody. Money is a collective possession which should be used only by those who have an integral, comprehensive and universal vision. I would add something to that: not only integral and comprehensive, but essentially  as well; a vision which can tell the difference between a use which is in accord with the universal progress, and a use which could be termed fanciful. But these are details, for even the mistakes, even, from a certain standpoint, the waste, help the general progress: these are lessons learned the hard way.  (


The Mother: )  I always remember what X used to say (X was completely opposed to philanthropy); he used to say: Philanthropy perpetuates human misery because without human misery philanthropy would have no more reason to exist!... And you know the great philanthropist, what was his name? — during Mazarin’s time; he founded the Little Sisters of Charity....   That’s it. Mazarin once told him: There have never been so many poor people as since you started taking care of them!


The Mother: ( .)  I have been rethinking what I said about money. That is how life in Auroville should be organised, but I doubt whether people are ready.  Yes. The ﬁrst thing that should be accepted and recognised by everyone is that the invisible and higher power — that is, the power which belongs to a plane of consciousness that is mostly veiled, but which is within each; a consciousness


The Mother: which can be called anything, by any name, it does not matter, but which is integral and pure in the sense that it is not false, it is in the Truth — that this power is capable of ordering material things in a way that is truer, happier and better for everyone than any material power. That is the ﬁrst point. Once people agree on that...


The Mother: It is not something one can pretend to have; an individual cannot pretend to have it, either he has it or he hasn’t, because () in any circumstance of life, if it is a pretension, it will show clearly! On top of that, it does not give you any material power. There again, X once said — he was speaking of the true hierarchy, the hierarchy based on each one’s power of consciousness — the individual or individuals who are at the very summit necessarily have the least needs; their material needs become less as their capacity of material vision grows. And that is very true. It is automatic and spontaneous, not the result of an effort: the wider the consciousness, the more it embraces things and realities — the less its material needs, automatically, because  they lose all their importance and value.


The Mother: The need for material necessities is reduced to a minimum, which will itself change with the progressive development of Matter.  And that is easily recognisable, isn’t it? It is difﬁcult to act the part.  And the second thing is the power of conviction; that is, the highest consciousness, when it is brought into contact with Matter, spontaneously has a greater power of conviction than all the intermediary planes. By mere contact, its power of conviction, that is, its power of transformation, is greater than that of all the intermediary planes.


The Mother: That is a fact. These two facts together make it impossible for any pretension to last long. I am looking at it from the standpoint of a collective organisation.  As soon as you come down from this supreme Height, there is all the play of the various inﬂuences ( ) and that in itself is a sure sign: even a slight descent — even into the domain of higher mind, higher intelligence — and the whole conﬂict of inﬂuences begins. Only what is right at the very summit and is perfectly pure, has this power of spontaneous conviction.


The Mother: Therefore, whatever one may do instead of that is an approximation and it is not much better than democracy — that is, the system which wants to rule by the greatest number and the lowest level — I mean social democracy, the latest trend.  If there is no representative of the supreme Consciousness — that can happen, can’t it? — if there isn’t any, there could be instead, it could be tried, government by a few — a small number set between four and eight, something like that, four, seven, eight — who have an intelligence: “intuitive” is more important than intelligence — with an intuition that is manifested intellectually.  This would have its drawbacks from the practical point of view, but it would perhaps be closer to the truth than the lowest level — socialism or communism. Everything in between has proved to be incompetent: theocracy, aristocracy, democracy  and plutocracy, all those have been a complete failure. The other one, the socialist or communist government is proving itself a failure as well.


The Mother: Basically socialism and communism correspond to a kind of absence of government, because they do not have the power to govern others; they are obliged to transfer their power to someone who exercises it, like a Lenin for example, because he was a brain. All this has been tried and proved to be incompetent. The only thing that could be competent is the Truth-Consciousness, which would choose instruments and express itself through a certain number of instruments in the absence of one — “one” is not enough either, “one” would necessarily have to choose a group.  Those who have this consciousness may belong to any social class: it is not a privilege of birth, but the outcome of personal effort and development. In fact, that is an outward sign, the obvious sign of a change from the political point of view — it is no longer a matter of classes and categories nor of birth — all


The Mother: that is obsolete . It is the individuals who have attained a certain higher consciousness who have the right to govern — not others, regardless of their social class.  This would be the true vision.  All those who participate in the experiment should be absolutely convinced that the highest consciousness is the best judge of the most material things.


The Mother: What has ruined India is this idea that the higher consciousness deals with higher things and that lower things do not interest it at all, and that it understands nothing about them! That has been the ruin of India. Well, this error must be completely eradicated. It is the highest consciousness which sees most clearly — most clearly and most truly — what the needs of the most material things must be.  With that, a new type of government could be tried.


The Mother:    The night before last, I spent more than three hours with Sri Aurobindo and I was showing him all that was about to come down for Auroville. It was quite interesting. There were games, there was art, there was even cooking! But all that was very symbolic.


The Mother: And I was explaining to him as though on a table, in front of a vast landscape. I was explaining to him the principle on which physical exercises and games were going to be organised.  It was very clear, very precise, I was giving as though a demonstration, and it was as though I was showing on a smaller scale a miniature representation of what was going to be done. I was moving people and things ().  But it was very interesting, and he was very interested: he was laying down the broad laws of organisation (I do not know how to explain).


The Mother: There was art and it was beautiful, it was good.  And how to make the houses pleasant and pretty, upon what principle of construction. And then even the kitchen; it was so amusing, each one brought forward his invention.... This went on for three hours — three hours of the night, it is a lot! Very interesting.


The Mother: ( ) No... it was right there, it did not seem to be foreign to earth. It was a harmony: a conscious harmony behind things; a conscious harmony behind the physical exercises and the games; a conscious harmony behind the decoration, the art; a conscious harmony behind the food...


The Mother: Not...    I saw X today and I was telling him that the whole organisation of the arts and sports, even of food and all the rest, was ready in the subtle physical — ready to come down and embody itself — and I told him, “What is needed is just a handful of earth (), a handful of earth where one could grow the plant.... One must ﬁnd a handful of earth to let it grow.”


The Mother: That was the ﬁrst idea: there was the Centre and the town was organised around it. Now they are doing the very opposite! They want to build the town and put the Centre in afterwards.  And the “thing” is ready to come! I have known it for a long time, it is there (), it is waiting.


The Mother: ( )  A’s idea is an island at the centre, with water around it, running water, which will provide the whole water supply for the city; and when it has passed through the city, it will be sent to a pumphouse, and from there it will go out to irrigate all the surrounding cultivated lands. So this Centre is like a small island and on it is what we called at ﬁrst the “Matrimandir” — which I always see as a very big room, absolutely bare, receiving a light that comes from above, arranged in such a way that the light from above would be concentrated on one place where there would be... whatever we want to put as the centre of the city. At ﬁrst, we had thought of Sri Aurobindo’s symbol, but we can put whatever we want.


The Mother: Like that, with a ray of light striking it all the time, which turns, turns, turns... with the sun, you understand. If that is properly done, it will be very good. And then underneath, so that people can sit and meditate, or simply rest,, nothing, except something comfortable underneath so that they can sit without getting tired, probably with some pillars, which would serve as back-rests at the same time. Something like that.  And that is what I always see.


The Mother: And the room should be high, so that the sun can enter as a, according to the time of day, and strike the centre which will be there. If that is done, it will be very good.   And then for the rest it is all the same to me, they can do what they want. At ﬁrst they thought of making a place for me to stay, but I will never go there, so it is not worth the trouble, it is completely useless. And to look after this island it was agreed that there would be a little house for B who would like to be there simply as the guardian.


The Mother: And then A had arranged a whole system of bridges to link it with the other bank. And the other bank would consist entirely of gardens all around. These gardens... we thought of twelve gardens — to divide the distance into twelve, of making twelve gardens, each one centred on something, a state of consciousness, and the ﬂowers which represent it. And then, the twelfth garden would be in the water, around — not around, but beside — the “Mandir”, with the tree, the banyan which is there.


The Mother: That is the centre of the city. And there, the twelve gardens around the outside would be repeated with the ﬂowers arranged in the same way.  ( )  For the outside of this kind of temple, A had thought of making a big lotus.


The Mother: But then, this interior, this play of light, I don’t know if it would be possible with a lotus shape?  If A and C could both collaborate... if they could both come together, and if one of them could always be here, one of them, now one, now the other, if one of them could always be here, with a single plan they would draw up together — it would go much faster, a hundred times faster.  This idea of the ray of sun... when I look, at once that is what I see. And a ray of sun which could come at all times — it would be arranged in such a way that it comes all the time ( ).


The Mother: And then, something would be there, a symbol, which would be both upright so that it can be seen all around, and ﬂat to receive the light fully. What?... And let it not become a religion, for heaven’s sake!   ( )


The Mother: Who could ﬁnd the way to realise that? Because there is no lack of sun here.... Of course there are days when there isn’t any, but after all, there are many days when there is — so that from every side, from any angle, the ray falls. It should be arranged like that. It’s a question of geometry.


The Mother: You can speak about it to C, because if he had an idea...  That is what is needed, something, a symbol — we’ll ﬁnd what is needed, we’ll see — of course, like an altar, but... What?  Which receives the light both directly from above and from all sides.  And then, no other windows, you understand?


The Mother: All the rest in a sort of half-light. And that, like a light... that would be good, it could be very good. I would like someone who can feel that.  And if it were well realised, that would already be very interesting for people.


The Mother: It would be a concrete realisation of something.... They will begin to say that it is a religion of the sun! ( ) Oh, you know, I am used to, every stupidity.


The Mother: ()  Of course, logically, or rather psychologically, it is a mistake to build all around and the Centre afterwards.  The idea of A, of his group, is to have industries which can bring in money for Auroville, then... That is to say that instead of being able to get it done quickly, it will take centuries.


The Mother: I will speak to A about it tomorrow. I mean I will tell him to see C who has some excellent ideas — well, that he should come to an understanding with him. You see, it’s very simple: we’ll try to make A understand and to set up a collaboration.  For me now, things are no longer exclusive, not at all. I see very well the possibility of using the most opposite tendencies  ....


The Mother: It is not exclusive. I do not say: “Ah! No, not that!” No, no, no. All, all together. That is what I want: to be able to create a place where all the opposites can unite.


The Mother: Unless that can be done... ( ) it goes on and on and on.    Yes. There is an interesting thing.


The Mother: For a long time I had been feeling something, then we spoke about it the other day and I  it. I spoke of it to A, I told him to see C and I also told him that I had what should be done. Of course he did not say No, he said Yes to everything, but I felt that he did not really intend... But, this is what happened. I saw clearly — very, very distinctly....


The Mother: That is to say it was like that and it still like that, it is there ()... the interior of this place....  It will be a kind of hall like the inside of a column. No windows. The ventilation will be artiﬁcial, with those machines () and only a roof.


The Mother: And the sun striking the centre. Or when there is no sun — at night and on cloudy days — an electric spotlight.  And the idea is to build right now a sort of example or model to hold about a hundred people. When the town is built and we have had the experience, we will make it into something big.  But then it will be very big, to hold a thousand to two thousand people.


The Mother: And the second one will be built around the ﬁrst: that means, the ﬁrst one will not go until the second one is ﬁnished.  That is the idea.  Only, so as to talk about it to C (and if possible, if I see that it is possible, to talk about it to A), I wanted to have a plan. I  will have it made, not myself, because I can’t any more; I would have been able to do it at one time, but now I don’t see well enough. I will have it done this afternoon, in front of me, a plan, and with this plan I will be able to explain really well.


The Mother: But to you I simply wanted to say what I have seen.  It will be a tower with twelve facets, each facet represents a month of the year; and up above, the roof of the tower will be like this ( ).  And then, inside, there will be twelve columns. The walls and then twelve columns. And right at the centre, on the ﬂoor, there is my symbol, and above it four of Sri Aurobindo’s symbols, joined to form a square, and above that... a globe.


The Mother: If possible, a globe made of transparent material, and with or without light inside, but the sun should strike the globe; then according to the month, the time, it will be from here, from there, from there ().  You understand? There will always be an opening with a ray.  Not a diffused light: a ray which strikes, which should strike. It will require some technical knowledge to be able to carry it out, and that is why I want to make a design with an engineer.


The Mother: And then, there will be no windows or lights inside. It will always be in a kind of clear half-light, day and night — by day with the sun, by night with artiﬁcial light. And on the ﬂoor, nothing, just a ﬂoor like this one (). That is to say, ﬁrst wood (wood or something else), then a sort of rubber foam, thick, very soft, and then a carpet. A carpet everywhere, everywhere except at the centre.


The Mother: And people will be able to sit everywhere. And the twelve columns are for people who need support for their backs!  And then, people will not come for a regular meditation or anything of that kind (but the inner organisation will be made afterwards): it will be a place for concentration. Not everyone will be able to come; there will be a time in the week or a time in the day (I don’t know) when visitors will be allowed to come, but  anyway, no mixture. A ﬁxed time or a ﬁxed day for showing people around, and the rest of time only for those who are... serious — serious, sincere, who want to learn to concentrate.


The Mother: So I think that is good. It was there (). I still see it when I speak of it — I. As I see it, it is very beautiful, it is really very beautiful... a sort of half-light: one can see, but it is tranquil.


The Mother: And then, very clear and very bright rays of light (the spotlight, the artiﬁcial light, must be rather golden, it must not be cold — that will depend on the spotlight) onto the symbol. A globe made of a plastic material or... I don’t know.  If it is possible, yes. For the small temple the globe will not need to be very big: if it were as big as this () it would be good. But for the big temple it will have to be big.


The Mother: No, no, the small one will go. But the big one will be built later, and on a vast scale... the small one will go only after the big one is built. But of course, for the town to be ﬁnished, it will take about twenty years (for everything to be really in order, in its place). It is like the gardens: all the gardens which are being made are for now, but in twenty years all that will have to be on another scale; then, it must be something really... really beautiful.


The Mother: And I wonder what material should be used to make this globe, the big one?... The small one, in crystal perhaps: a globe like that (). I think that will be enough. One must be able to see the globe from every corner of the room.   No, Sri Aurobindo’s symbol does not need to be big.


The Mother: It should be so big ()...  At the most, at the very most.  Eye-level, yes, that’s it.  And a tranquil atmosphere. And, you see — great columns...


The Mother: It remains to be seen whether the style of the columns should be... whether they will be round, or if they will also have twelve facets.... And columns.   Yes, a roof in two sections so as to have the sun. It must be arranged in such a way that the rain cannot come in.


The Mother: We cannot think of having to open and close something when it rains, it is not possible. It must be arranged in such a way that the rain cannot get in. But the sun must enter as rays, not diffused. So the opening must be small. It needs an engineer who really knows his job.


The Mother: I would like to begin at once, as soon as we have the plans. Only, there are two questions: ﬁrst the plans (we can get the workers) and then the money.... I think that it is possible with this idea of making a sort of small model (of course “small” is a manner of speaking, because to be able to hold a hundred people easily it still needs to be quite big), a small model to begin with, and then while making the small model they will learn, and the big one will be made only when the town is ﬁnished — not right now.   I spoke about it to A, who told me the next day: “Yes, but it will take time to prepare.” I didn’t say anything about all that I’ve just told you, I only spoke of doing something.


The Mother: And afterwards I had the vision of this room — so I no longer need anyone to see what it should be: I know. And it requires an engineer rather than an architect, because an architect... it must be as simple as possible.  But a form...


The Mother: Like a tower, but... (that’s why I wanted to have a sketch, to show it) twelve regular facets, and then there should be a wall, not an upright wall but something like this ( ). I don’t know if it is possible. And inside, twelve columns. And then an arrangement must be found to catch the sun. Twelve facets in such a way that at any time of the year it can come.


The Mother: It needs someone who knows the job well.  The outside... I did not see the outside, I did not see it at all.  I saw only the inside.  I wanted to explain to C when I had the papers.


The Mother: It would be easier, but since you have called him...  After we decided to build this temple, I saw it, I saw it from the inside. I have just tried to describe it to E. But in a few days I will have some plans and drawings, so I will be able to explain more clearly. Because I don’t know at all how it is outside, but inside I know.


The Mother: It is a kind of tower with twelve regular facets, which represent  the twelve months of the year, and it is absolutely empty.... And it must be able to hold from a hundred to two hundred people.  And then, to support the roof there will be twelve columns inside (not outside), and right at the centre, well, the object of concentration.... And with the collaboration of the sun, all the year round the sun should enter as rays: no diffusion, an arrangement must be made so that it can enter as rays.


The Mother: Then according to the time of day and the month of the year, the ray will turn (there will be an arrangement up above) and the ray will be directed onto the centre. At the centre there will be the symbol of Sri Aurobindo, supporting a globe. A globe which we shall try to make from something transparent like crystal or... A big globe. And then, people will be allowed in to concentrate — () to learn to concentrate!


The Mother: No ﬁxed meditations, none of all that, but they must stay there in silence, in silence and concentration.  But the place is absolutely... as simple as possible. And the ﬂoor in such a way that people are comfortable, so that they don’t have to think that it hurts them here or it hurts them there!  And in the middle, on the ﬂoor, my symbol. At the centre of my symbol we will put, in four parts, like a square, four symbols of Sri Aurobindo, upright, supporting a transparent globe.


The Mother: That has been seen.  So I am going to have some small plans prepared by an engineer, simple ones, to show, and then I will show you when it is ready. So. And then we will see. The walls will probably have to be of concrete.


The Mother: The roof should probably be sloping, and then at the centre there will have to be a special arrangement for the sun.  Either the walls or the roof should be sloping — whichever is the easiest to do. The walls could be made straight and the roof sloping.


The Mother: And the upper part of the roof resting on the twelve columns, and up above, the arrangement for the sun.  And inside, nothing; nothing but the columns. The columns, I don’t know, we will have to see whether they should be made with facets (like the roof, with twelve facets) or else simply round.  Or simply square — it remains to be seen.  And then, on the ﬂoor, we will put something thick and soft.


The Mother: Here — you are comfortable as you are sitting? Yes? First there is wood, and then this kind of rubber, and on top of it a woollen carpet.  Not the carpet. For the symbol, I had thought it would be better to make it out of something durable.


The Mother: The symbol... everything will be around it, of course. The symbol will not cover it all, it will be only in the middle of the space — () they mustn’t sit on the symbol! — that, in the middle. The proportion of the symbol to the whole will have to be considered very carefully in relation to the height.


The Mother: Oh yes, it has to be... it should be like a sort of half-light with these rays of sunlight, so that the ray can be. A ray of sunlight. Then according to the time of day, the sun will turn (with the time of day and the month of the year). And then at night, as soon as the sun disappears, spotlights are lit which will have the same effect and the same colour.


The Mother: And day and night the light remains there. But no windows or lamps or anything like that — nothing. Ventilation with air-conditioners (they are built into the walls, it is very easy). And silence. Inside no one speaks!


The Mother: ( ) That will be good. So, as soon as my papers are ready


The Mother: , I will call you and show them to you.  I did not ask C if he had seen A because... A is completely in the “practical” atmosphere of today. It is good — it must get started!  You see, this is what I have learned: the failure of the religions.


The Mother: It is because they were divided. They wanted people to be religious to the exclusion of the other religions; and every branch of knowledge has been a failure because they were exclusive; and man has been a failure because he was exclusive. And what the new consciousness wants (it is on this that it insists) is: no more divisions. To be able to understand the spiritual extreme, the material extreme, and to ﬁnd... to ﬁnd the meeting-point, the point where... that becomes a real force.  From the practical point of view I will try to make A understand; but I have seen, it seemed to me that what is needed...


The Mother: A, when he is here, looks after Auromod`ele, the practical side, all that. It is very necessary, it is very good; and for the building of the Centre, I would like C to do it, and so I would like C to stay  when A is away ; C should be here when A is gone, and we shall do it with C. Only I don’t want either of them to feel that it is one of them against the other. They must understand that it is to complement one another.


The Mother: I think C will understand.  Perhaps not. I will try, I will try.   No, when I told him that it was necessary to build the Centre, that I had seen it and that it should be done, he did not object.


The Mother: He only told me, “But it will take time.” I told him, “No, it must be done at once.” And that is why I am having these sketches made by an engineer to show to him, because it is not an architect’s job, it is an engineer’s job, with very precise calculations for the light of the sun, very precise. It needs someone who really knows. The architect has to see that the columns are beautiful, that the walls are beautiful, that the proportions are correct — all that is very good — and then the symbol at the centre.


The Mother: The aspect of beauty, of course the architect should see to that, but the whole calculation aspect... And the important thing is this, the play of the sun onto the centre. Because that becomes the symbol — the symbol of the future realisation.


The Mother: I am going to see him this afternoon.  I told you that I had seen the central building of Auroville... I have a plan, would you be interested to see it? There are some rolls there.  (


The Mother: ) There will be twelve facets. And, at an equal distance from the centre, twelve  columns. At the centre, on the ground, is my symbol, and at the centre of my symbol there are four of Sri Aurobindo’s symbols, upright, forming a square, and on the square a translucent globe (we don’t know yet in what material). And then, from the top of the roof, when the sun is shining, the sunlight will fall onto it as a ray (nowhere else, only there).


The Mother: When there is no sun, there will be electric spotlights which will send a ray (also a ray, not a diffused light) exactly onto it, onto this globe.  And then, there are no doors, but... going deep down, one comes up again into the temple. One goes under the wall and comes up again inside. Again it is a symbol. Everything is symbolic.


The Mother: And then there is no furniture, but on the ﬂoor, like here, there is ﬁrst wood, probably, then over the wood a thick “dunlop” and over it a carpet, like here. The colour is yet to be chosen.  The whole place will be white. I am not sure if the symbols of Sri Aurobindo will be white... I don’t think so.


The Mother: I did not see them white, I saw them in an indeﬁnable colour between gold and orange, a kind of colour like that. They will be upright. They will be carved in stone. And a globe which is not transparent but translucent. And then, right at the bottom (), there will be a light which will be directed upwards, shining diffusely into the globe.


The Mother: And then, from outside, there will be rays of light falling onto the centre. And no other lights, no windows, electric ventilation. And not a single piece of furniture, nothing.  A place... for trying to ﬁnd one’s consciousness.  Outside, it will be something like that ( ).


The Mother: We don’t know if the roof will be completely pointed or... very simple, very simple. It will be able to hold about two hundred people.  So, C’s letter?   What he says is good.  (.)


The Mother: I will see C this afternoon to give him this plan. Because that is what I saw, you know. We will make it in white marble.  F has said that he will fetch the marble, he knows the place.


The Mother: Yes, yes.   Yes, yes.   Yes.


The Mother: I said that to reassure the people who think that something huge is needed. I said, “We will begin with this, and then we will see.” You understand? I said, “This Centre should be there until the town is completely built, and afterwards we will see.”


The Mother: Afterwards no one will want to remove it!  Yes, oh, it is quite possible! You see, A told me, “And then what will we do afterwards?” I said, “Well, we will think about that later!” That’s it!


The Mother: They don’t know... they don’t know that one  must! I didn’t think about it at all, at all, at all. One  day, I saw it like that, as I see you.


The Mother: And even now, it is so living that I only have to look and I see it. And what I saw was the Centre and the light which falls on it and then,, while looking at it I noticed, I said, “There, it is like that.” But it was not thought, I did not think “twelve columns and then twelve facets and then...”; I did not think all that. I saw.  It is like these symbols of Sri Aurobindo....


The Mother: When I am speaking of the Centre I still see these four symbols of Sri Aurobindo, which support each other at the corners, like that, and this colour... a strange colour... I don’t know where we could ﬁnd that. It is an orange-gold, very warm. And it is the only colour in the place; all the rest is white, and the translucent globe.


The Mother: The exact measurement is on the plan, it must be marked.   Oh! They make marvellous things there.... Isn’t it marked, the size of the globe?


The Mother: It can be hollow. It need not be solid, so that it is not too heavy.  ( )  This underground entrance...


The Mother: one will enter a dozen metres or so away from the wall, at the foot of the urn. The urn will mark the descent. I must choose from which side exactly.... And then,  it is possible that later the urn, instead of being outside, will be  the enclosure. So perhaps we could simply put a great wall all around, and then the gardens.


The Mother: Between the enclosure wall and the building we are going to make now, we could have the gardens and the urn. And that wall will have one entrance... one or several, ordinary doors. People will be able to walk in the garden. And then one should fulﬁl certain conditions to have the right to go down into the underground passage and come out into the temple.... That must be something like an initiation, not just “like that”, no matter how...


The Mother: ( )  I said to A, “We will see in twenty years” — so that calmed him down. But the ﬁrst idea was to surround it with water, to make an island so that one would have to cross the water to be able to reach the temple. It is quite possible to make an island....


The Mother:   What did you want to tell me?  The outside — I have seen nothing. There is a sketch, it is a sketch by F....


The Mother: I did not see anything at all and I am open to all suggestions. And then?   Have they seen A too? Because A had two ideas; he came to see me with two ideas, and I told him which of the two I preferred, but nothing is decided yet. And A is to make a sketch of his ideas.


The Mother: So I will see what C says and then I will tell you A’s ideas.  (E unrolls the plan)  Are you sure that he hasn’t seen A? Because A told me, “I want to make a great circle; the interior is an exact semi-circle and the other semi-circle would be underground.” He used almost the same words.


The Mother: Ah! C had told him! Ah, that’s it.   Yes, yes, that was the ﬁrst idea A told me, almost identically the same words.


The Mother: And then, his second idea was a pyramid. To leave the temple as we had said, and then make a pyramid. But I had also thought of a pyramid, and I told him, “I thought of a pyramid.” But he said that he would make both plans and that then we would see. But if that agrees with C’s idea it is very good.


The Mother: Yes, that’s it.   Oh! But the columns have a use, because at the top of the columns we will put the spotlights which will direct the light onto the centre. There will be light night and day; for the day, openings will be arranged, but as soon as the sun is gone the spotlights will be lit and the spotlights are ﬁxed on top of the  twelve columns and converge onto the centre.


The Mother: The columns are not near to the wall. The columns are here, exactly half-way between the centre and the wall.  That has no meaning.  Oh, for their backs.


The Mother: I saw columns, myself.  On the outer walls the general ventilation will be arranged, which will be electric (no windows), and then on the columns there was the light... I saw columns, I clearly saw the columns.  As for the gallery all around, I don’t know if I like that much... I did not see it, I saw the walls completely bare, without windows,  and then the columns, and then the centre.


The Mother: That I am sure of, because I saw it, and I saw it for a long time.  That means that it makes a perfect circle: half above, half below.... It will do. Only an arrangement must be made for the sun.  It must be ray.


The Mother: In what I have seen, one the ray.   Yes, yes.   I don’t know if it is good to make many entrances like that....


The Mother: There will be a practical problem to solve; if there is only one entrance and a very strict watch at that entrance, it is all right, but if there are several entrances and if there is not enough light, there will be disasters.   ()  I did not think of it as “stuck against the wall” — there was always a passage around the wall.  What I don’t like is the idea of these galleries, because the walls were quite straight, from top to bottom, in white marble.  Yes, that is all right.


The Mother: That’s all right.   ()  Good, that’s all right. So they must come to an understanding.  But that must be half done already since A spoke to me about the idea.


The Mother: If I had known that it was C’s idea, I would have said Yes right away. But it will work out. It’s all right.  I don’t know. I tell you, I have seen nothing for the outside, so I don’t know.


The Mother: But it would be dangerous, one could fall.  Yes, yes, that might be good.   Ah?   Then where would the wall come?


The Mother: (E points to the outside of the circular gallery).  It is the wall which must be twenty-four metres away.  ()  The question exactly was that it should make a perfect circle.


The Mother: Yes.  ()  The thing that would really please me would be if they could both come to an agreement and present me with a project from both of them at once. Like that, it would be easy to carry it out.... Hasn’t A adopted C’s idea?


The Mother: Why don’t the two of them see together how to carry it out?  Oh, very much.   ()  What will happen under there? ( ).


The Mother: All that is mental, but when you are going to have a big basement, all dark, what is going to happen in there? What is going to happen? Lots of unmentionable things.  Humanity is not transformed, one should not forget it. And all kinds of people will come....


The Mother: Even if there is a control at the entrance you can’t prevent people from going to see, so then what is going to happen under there? That was my ﬁrst objection when A told me, “We could make wonderful underground passages!” I told him, “That’s all very well, but who will control what happens under there?”  My idea was quite a short descent, which came out there ( ). Quite a short descent, not a great tunnel like that.


The Mother: But it is possible, it is a question of control, that’s all. Only there is a big difference between a passage with room for two lines of people (one going up and one going down) and coming out there, and an enormous tunnel like this one — there is a big difference! And now, in addition, it will be all dark!   Yes, then?


The Mother: That means that one will not see very clearly in there.  Then what is going to happen in there?   There won’t be any accidents? Ah! There are people with their heads in the clouds who are all ready to break their heads on the ﬂoor.


The Mother: You see, it’s a bit too mental for my taste — I mean that from the mental point of view it is very attractive, but in vision...   ()  We’ll see! (.)


The Mother: ( )  In any case they must get together. And then I will see. I would like to be able to have them both together with their paper.


The Mother: Then that would be very good.  (.)  We will let it settle.  A shell... the idea was a sphere.


The Mother: Why a shell?  An egg-shell is elongated, it is not spherical. A real egg is rather like a spinning-top — so the upper part would be wider and the base narrower with only the stairs.... That is quite possible.  Give me a piece of paper.


The Mother: ( ) And then, there, down below, there would only be the stairs, like that, yes.   But then, what is it like, the egg of Brahman?  The bottom of an egg is always narrower than the top. So if we take an egg like that (), and at the base this is the staircase, and the spiral staircase comes up to the temple.


The Mother: For example, seven stairway openings.  And here (), it is twentyfour metres and only ﬁfteen and a half metres in height. Then like that it


The Mother: is correct.  No, it must have straight walls, the walls cannot be curved, I saw them straight.  According to what I had seen, the columns were higher than the walls, and that is why the roof sloped. And the electric light was on the columns. And the widest point of the egg would be here ().


The Mother: Yes.   Seven stairways. And then an underground passage which leads to the base of the egg where the seven stairways start from. That is possible.


The Mother: That is to say that one can, for the outside, for the appearance, make them rounded. But inside, the wall must be straight.  Yes, a dome over the straight wall. But the dome can be the dome of the egg, and I had thought that the place where the dome comes to join the walls would be on the columns. Twelve columns.


The Mother: And here, for the outside, they can round off their wall like that ( ).  It would even be possible to have a space between the outermost wall and the inner wall. To make a space.  That is to be seen.


The Mother: Yes, that’s understood. The twenty-four metres end at the walls.  I would prefer to have them outside the wall.    Oh!


The Mother: Yes, and the interior would be much clearer. I didn’t like the sight of all these stairways. I did not like to see even one stairway, but to see seven... But outside, it is all right.  The passage outside.


The Mother: Yes. That is all right.   That is how they want it.


The Mother: For below I don’t mind. If they want it to be a stairway like that or a stairway... so long as it is not too steep.  ( )  What else have you?


The Mother: Ah? What is it?   At Golconde, there was outside labour.  (Mother laughs)  (


The Mother: )  But at the Ashram, we have three centres which do construction.  There is H, who looks after the maintenance of the houses, I and F.   It is not possible. All the people of the Ashram who are of working age are all working, they have all got their work.


The Mother: They would simply love that! For them it would be extraordinary fun. I have more trouble to prevent them from dispersing themselves than I would ever have to get them to do something.  It would be an amusement for them.


The Mother: Oh no! He does not know. It is all in the mind, it is all mental.  They do not know. Who knows?


The Mother: It is only when one sees. Not one of them sees. All thoughts, thoughts, thoughts.... Thoughts do not build.  I am working, working () to bring together the energies that can do it.


The Mother: And there must be a sifting out there.   ()  But, you understand, they are talking about physical work, and for physical work there are only the young people who are at the school — all the Ashramites have grown old, my child, they are all old. There are only the young people at the school.  And the young ones who are at the school are not here to be Ashramites, they are here to be educated — it is up to them to choose.


The Mother: Many, many of them want to go to Auroville. So it would be the educational side of the Ashram which would go to Auroville.... There are many of them. But give me the names — who can go and work with his hands?   you should speak


The Mother: ( ) My child, you are one of the youngest.... Do you see me telling J: “Go and work”?


The Mother: ( ) Poor J!  ()  If you knew how many letters I receive from so-called Aurovilians who say, “Oh, I want to be quiet at last, I want to come to the Ashram, I do not want to be an Aurovilian any more.”


The Mother: There, it is just the opposite, “I want to be quiet.” There.   ( )


The Mother: You know, I do not believe in external decisions. I simply believe in one thing only: the force of the Consciousness which is making  a like that (). And the pressure goes on increasing... which means that it will sift out the people. I believe only in that — the pressure of the Consciousness. All the rest are things that men do.


The Mother: They do them more or less well, and then it lives, and then it dies, and then it changes, and then it gets distorted, and then... everything they have done. It is not worth the trouble. The power of execution must come from above, like that, imperative ()! And for that, this ( ), this must keep quiet. Not to say, “Oh, that must not be, oh!


The Mother: this must be, oh! we ought to do...” Peace, peace, peace. He knows better than you do what is needed.  There.  So since there are not many people who can understand, I say nothing.


The Mother: I watch and I wait.  ()  If they can come to an agreement, the work will go faster. There.  Objections about details have no importance, because one sets out with one idea and one arrives with another...


The Mother: one makes a lot of progress in between. So that does not need to be discussed, it is only... Only try to unite your energies to get started more quickly, that’s all.  (.)   What is the trouble?


The Mother: Each one pulls in his own direction.  We have to bear in mind that we are starting from the present state of humanity. So you must face all the difﬁculties; you must ﬁnd the solution.   (


The Mother: ) What is that?   ( )


The Mother: You shouldn’t have told me!   Each man has his solution, and that is the great difﬁculty. To be in the Truth, each one has his solution. And yet we must ﬁnd a way for all these solutions to work together.  (


The Mother: )  So the framework must be vast, very ﬂexible, and there must be a great goodwill from everyone: that is the ﬁrst condition — the ﬁrst individual condition — goodwill. To be ﬂexible enough to do the best thing to be done at each moment.   More inward?


The Mother: (.)  To be practical, you must ﬁrst have a very clear vision of your goal, of where you are going. From this point of view, take money for example. An ideal which may be several hundred years ahead of its time, we don’t know: money should be a power which belongs to nobody and which should be controlled by the most universal wisdom present. Put on the earth someone who has a vision vast enough to be able to know the needs of the earth and precise enough to be able to tell where the money should go — you understand, we are very far from that, aren’t  we?


The Mother: For the moment, the gentleman still says, “This is mine”, and when he is generous, he says, “I give it to you.” That’s not it.  But there is a long way to go between what we are and what must be. And for that we must be very ﬂexible, never losing sight of the goal, but knowing that we cannot reach it at one bound and that we must ﬁnd the way. Well, that is much more difﬁcult, even more difﬁcult than to make the inner discovery.


The Mother: Truly speaking, that should have been made before coming here.  For there is a starting-point: when you have found within yourself the light that never wavers, the presence which can guide you with certitude, then you become aware that constantly, in everything that happens, there is something to be learnt, and that in the present state of matter there is always a progress to be made. That is how one should come, eager to ﬁnd out at every minute the progress to be made. To have a life that wants to grow and perfect itself, that is what the collective ideal of Auroville should be: “A life that wants to grow and perfect itself”, and above all, not in the same way for everyone — each one in his own way.  Well, now there are thirty of you, it is difﬁcult, isn’t it?


The Mother: When there are thirty thousand of you, it will be easier, because, naturally, there will be many more possibilities. You are the pioneers, you have the most difﬁcult task, but I feel it is the most interesting one. Because you must establish in a concrete, durable and growing way the attitude that is needed to truly be an Aurovilian. To learn every day the lesson that is needed to truly be an Aurovilian. To learn every day the lesson of the day....


The Mother: Each sunrise is an opportunity to make a discovery. So, with that state of mind, you ﬁnd out. Everyone does.  And the body needs activity: if you keep it inactive, it will begin to revolt by becoming sick and so on. It needs an activity, it really needs an activity like planting ﬂowers, building a house,  something really material.


The Mother: You must feel it. Some people do exercises, some ride bicycles, there are countless activities, but in your little group you must all come to an agreement so that each one can ﬁnd the activity which suits his temperament, his nature and his need. But not with ideas. Ideas are not much good, ideas give you preconceptions, for example, “That is a good work, that work is not worthy of me,” and all that sort of nonsense. There is no bad work — there are only bad workers.


The Mother: All work is good when you know how to do it in the right way. Everything. And it is a kind of communion. If you are fortunate enough to be conscious of an inner light, you will see that in your manual work, it is as if you called the Divine down into things; then the communion becomes very concrete, there is a whole world to be discovered, it is marvellous.  You are young, you have plenty of time before you.


The Mother: And to be young, to be really young, we must always, always keep on growing, developing, progressing. Growth is the sign of youthfulness and there is no limit to the growth of consciousness.  I know old people of twenty and young people of ﬁfty, sixty, seventy. And if one does manual work, one keeps in good health.


The Mother: So now you must ﬁnd the solution.   Everything you can do... there are all sorts of things, all sorts.  And you should see among yourselves how it can be arranged.


The Mother: You will come and tell me, all right?  Then, good-bye. Come again in a week.


The Mother: Come in. (.)  ( :)  Service to Auroville.  ( :)


The Mother: It is service which leads to transformation. I mean it seriously.   Yes.


The Mother: Oh!  You see, I am quite willing, but it is up to you. ( )  No! I am willing to see four of you.


The Mother: ( ) I have called him for the ﬁrst time today, but in his place other people could take turns in coming. In any case I will be seeing him.


The Mother: But with you three, a fourth person can come, taking turns, a different one each time.   All I ask is that they should be sincere, that they do not come out of mere curiosity. If they are sincere, if they truly want to progress, they may come one at a time, I am quite willing. I do not even need to know their names. You see, that has no importance to me.


The Mother: It is only the quality of the receptivity that counts. If they are open and feel that it does them good, then ﬁne, it is very good....   ( )


The Mother: So you will come once a week to keep me informed about the garden.... You, you people come from Auroville; him, he works here.... Is that all right?  ( )


The Mother: How many of you are there out there?  ( ) I’m going to ask you an indiscreet question.  How many are sincere?


The Mother: You can’t know that just by looking at them. There won’t be forty coming here! How many asked you if they could come?  That’s reasonable. Who?


The Mother: ( )  I am going to set two conditions. To want to progress — that is really a moderate condition. To want to progress, to know that  everything is yet to be done, everything is yet to be conquered.


The Mother: The second condition: to do something every day, some activity, some work, anything, something which is not for oneself, and above all something which is an expression of goodwill for all — you are a group, aren’t you? — simply to show that you do not live solely for yourselves as if you were at the centre of the universe and the whole universe had to revolve around you. That is how it is for the vast majority of people, and they don’t even know it. Each one should become aware that, spontaneously, one puts oneself at the centre of the universe and wants everything to come to oneself, just like that, in one way or another.  But one should make an effort to recognise the existence of the whole, that’s all. It is to widen one’s consciousness, just to become a little less tiny.


The Mother: So those who adhere to my programme will come once a week, in turn. Is that all right?  ( ) As for you, I shall give you a rose for your mother because she likes them very much.


The Mother: So you will give her this. And you will come... you should not come on the same day, because it takes too much time. What day?


The Mother: ( ) Which day is more convenient for you?  So on Monday you will bring me news of your gardening.  Very good.


The Mother: We must have a beautiful garden.  Well, then, is it all right? I shall see you next Tuesday, with someone, anyone, it’s all the same to me, you can just tell me when he comes.... Those who want to progress and who think that the world is vaster than themselves, than their own consciousness.


The Mother: ( )  Oh! You have met Mr. H?  (To G) What does he think of him?


The Mother: They don’t have the same technique?  ( ) Where did you learn?  And then there are those who have learned in Japan and they really know. ( )


The Mother: There are as many Judos as there are people practising it. Ten is  all right. The ﬁrst thing is to learn how to fall. ( )


The Mother: All right. So I shall see you next Tuesday. Good-bye.    Any news?


The Mother: What news?  It is all right, on condition that the parents agree. You should have someone talk with the parents and tell them, if they agree, ask them, explain to them. You cannot take a child, just like that, without the agreement of the parents, his father and mother.  And he will go there?


The Mother: This is what I am saying. That is the condition. He must go there, talk to the father and mother, explain things to them, ask them whether they agree. If they do, it is very good, quite all right.


The Mother: No, no.   On the contrary...  On the contrary, he must maintain the contact. Then it is ﬁne.


The Mother: Now, the second question?  Spending the night is not possible, is it? You have no room?  But where do they come from? Are they sent by the [Sri Aurobindo] Society or do they come just like that?


The Mother: There ought to be some supervision.  You should have an ofﬁce, that is to say, there ought to be someone there all the time, someone who could receive people coming from outside, interview them, ﬁnd out who has sent them, where they come from, why they have come. He should be an Indian. That is absolutely indispensable, someone who speaks...  There should be one Indian and one European who can speak at least French and English.


The Mother: If he could speak German too it would be still better. But nowadays, with English...  Spending the night — I don’t agree, because we know nothing about what they are like or what they want or why they have come. Those who come with a recommendation, someone knows them, they have been sent to us, that is different; but  those who come just like that — there must be someone to tell them what it’s all about, and that it is not an object of curiosity.


The Mother: Is he a nice person?   Then it is all right. That is quite different, it is different. I am talking about strangers, people whom we do not know and who come just like that. Who could receive them?


The Mother: Yes, perhaps it would not be much fun.  But it would be rather useful, it would be very useful. It would be enough to have a table and a chair — you invite them in and interview them. If necessary, there could be a stool for them!  (


The Mother: ) Oh! That’s too much. “What do you expect from us, who told you about us”, etc.... And then it ought to be someone with a little psychological insight.


The Mother: If he sees that the people are sincere and interesting, then it is all right; but to spend the night — better not.  Yes, ask them to pay.  Yes, yes, it is all right. You have only to set a ﬁxed price. Who is doing the cooking?


The Mother: ( ) You could open a little restaurant!  Do you know M?  He has some sort of shop for selling things.


The Mother: Yes, that’s it. But there is no one to look after it at night and so there are thefts. And it seems that you have too many people and not enough accommodation. So what I suggested was that each month someone could go there to sleep at night and come back in the morning, if it’s not too far.  Oh, well that’s nothing.


The Mother: By cycle — do you have bicycles?  And all you have to do is go there in the evening, at night, and come back in the morning. At night the bicycles won’t be needed   [ at Aspiration].


The Mother: But if you know M, he could take one of you along and show him and explain it to him.  I think it will be all right.... I don’t know what it’s like, I couldn’t say, but I hope that it will be comfortable.  I think that until there is enough accommodation for everyone it is quite indispensable. I’m not saying that it will be supercomfortable, but it is most indispensable.


The Mother: The young boy, the young Tamil boy who is coming — what are you teaching him, English or French?  Poor little fellow, you simply put him to work...  You must involve him in the life there, and then it would be interesting. When children hear you speak, they want to know what is being said and they learn the language.


The Mother: Indians are wonderful at learning languages. They can learn four or ﬁve languages without mixing them up. This young boy would learn very well — it would be a good thing.   ()  Good, it is all right.


The Mother: Then... Good-bye.    Nothing to report?  (


The Mother: )  Have you changed something in the organisation? Someone told me that you had.   Oh!


The Mother: It has not changed.  ()  If anyone wants a “bath of silence” they can come, it doesn’t matter. If anyone wants a “bath of silence” more often than once in a while, they can come, it doesn’t matter. They can sit there at the back.


The Mother: I’ll leave the arrangements to you.  ()  Good-bye.


The Mother: (Referring to O) (Referring to P)   Ah!  There is work here.  (


The Mother: )  I am going to give each of you a packet to keep the contact. You are familiar with these packets. You must keep the packet.  Do they all understand French?


The Mother: ( ) I can speak in English if you like.  ( )


The Mother: There are some petals, ﬂower petals inside, but they are charged with force, and if you keep them upon you, the contact with me is kept. So, if you refer inside, when you withdraw... if you refer inside, you can re-establish the contact and even have an answer to a question.  Take it. Here.


The Mother: ( )  Nobody has a question? ( )


The Mother: No question?  ( )


The Mother: (Referring to L, who wrote to Mother asking how Aurovilians should relate to the local villagers) Ah! For your questions, the best way, you see, it is education. To educate them not by words and speeches but by example. If you can make them mix with your life and your work, and they get the inﬂuence of your way of being, your way of understanding, then, little by little, they will change.


The Mother: And when they become curious and ask questions, then it will be time to answer and to tell them what you know.   Oh!  Oh!  They know of my existence?


The Mother: (Laughter)  Two?   Then you will give them that. ( .)


The Mother: You’ll tell them: the Mother is sending that for you. And you tell them: keep that upon you, it will help you.  Is there someone else?  You speak English? It is with Dr. R that you are working?


The Mother: ( ) You understand English?  Then I say it in English. Because I have been told that in Aspiration there is a big number of cats and dogs.


The Mother: It is true? You know, I have nothing against cats and dogs. I have kept some also at one time. But the climate is not good; it is almost impossible to avoid... to avoid rabies. And then, you understand, it becomes dangerous and you will have to kill them, which is not a pleasant business.


The Mother: It would be better to diminish the number as much as possible. I have been obliged to ask not to keep dogs; some keep them all the same. But you can’t have a pleasant contact with them. They carry the illness. There are some diseases, rather serious, and dogs, cats, carry them.


The Mother: I don’t want to give nasty descriptions, but... It is not safe and it cannot be peaceful. Do you know the illness they carry? There are two: one is plague, the other is leprosy.  Are they personal animals or belonging to the community?


The Mother: They live in their huts?   (Murmurs of disagreement; A corrects himself)  They are not allowed to come in?   And then, well, they breed.


The Mother: ( ) There is no end to it. And breeding — what can we do? Drown them all?


The Mother: It is not pleasant.  Naturally, you could easily tell me: if we chase them away from here they will go somewhere else. But, anyway, what I would like is that this should not be encouraged. You know, you will have more cats and dogs than human beings. That’s how it is.


The Mother: Then — there is one interesting thing you could do. Far, far away, in some deserted area where no one lives, you could put them all together, in a protected area, so that they could not get out.  Then they will ﬁnd something to eat. Say, a spot of virgin forest — they still exist in India. With cats it is very easy.


The Mother: When a cat has kittens, if you carry the babies off somewhere and put them there, the mother never comes back, she stays with the little ones. Something should be found, a remote spot. They still exist in India. But not on Auroville land.  In fact, all I am asking you to do is not to allow the number to increase, in any case.


The Mother: One day you will come to me all in tears, saying: life has become unbearable! ( ) So, I am warning you.  In the village, do they have cats and dogs?


The Mother: Do you want a short moment of silence?  ()  So, good-bye.  Who are the new ones?   (Mother laughs)


The Mother: So we are going to stay quiet. I shall talk to you some other day.  There will be... Do you know the small Ashram brooches?  Well, there is going to be one for Auroville.


The Mother: Because there are people who come and settle down on Auroville land and they refuse to go and see the Committee, saying, “Auroville is free!”  And they settle down there. But all the same, we need to be able to distinguish between those who are recognised Aurovilians and those who are more fanciful. So something is being prepared — of course, it is not ready yet. I only wanted to show you.


The Mother: ( )  It will be a small brooch about this size. It is like this. The circle will be made of silver; and here are the four aspects, and Sri Aurobindo’s square with the lotus. And “Auroville” will be  written all around it.


The Mother: So you will wear that in your button-hole — the recognised Aurovilians! (.)  ()  There. So, have a good week.


The Mother:  Are there any questions?  They don’t know what mystic means are?  By mystic means I mean the way of those who withdraw from life, like the monks, the people who withdraw into convents, or like the sannyasins here, those who abandon life to ﬁnd spiritual life, who make a division between the two and say, “It is either one or the other.” We say, “That is not true.”


The Mother: It is in life and by living life entirely that one can live the spiritual life, that one  live the spiritual life. The supreme consciousness has to be brought. From the purely material and physical point of  view, man is not the last race. As man came after the animal, so another being must come after man. And as there is only one Consciousness, it is the same Consciousness which having had the experience of man will have the experience of a superhuman being.


The Mother: And so if we go away, if we leave life, if we reject life, then we will never be ready to do that.  But if you had read Sri Aurobindo, you would have understood, you would not have asked this question. It is because there is a lack of preparation from the intellectual point of view.  You want to know everything without having studied.  (


The Mother: ) Now, what else do you have to say?  All right.    (Reading)


The Mother: It could be put up on the notice board. It is very good, very good.  (.) What do you have to say?   Practical?


The Mother: You cut yourself off from people who do not think as you do?  But not a single person thinks as you do!  So how can you love anyone?  Oh!  ()


The Mother: It is because when you want something, it is the ego that wants.  So, the ego... must be ignored. The ﬁrst thing to do is not to act for yourself but to act in obedience to the Divine, to express the divine Will. For your part, you have no orders to give. As long as it is a personal will, a personal desire, it is not the true thing, and you cannot...


The Mother: Not only is it not the true thing, but you cannot know the true thing!   That must be ()...  !  That is why alone, we are nothing at all. This is life.


The Mother: We do not act for ourselves. We do not act from our personal will and for a personal result. We act only by the divine Will and for the divine Will. So much so, that effortlessly, spontaneously, we can feel the greatest tenderness for our physical enemy. When you have felt that, you will understand.


The Mother: That is the whole limitation, the whole limitation.  When conﬂicts arise, and they arise all the time, for all of us — immediately it is as if one were drawing back into one’s own skin. For that is what happens: each one draws back inside himself. But the difﬁculty is that even when one has relatively little personal will, if the person next to you expresses a personal will, it is exactly... First of all it creates a reaction and then too, if you are more or less in agreement with it, you take this will, you see, and you begin to reﬂect it all around.


The Mother: So you can see what happens. And that is going on all the time. First one person has a will, and then another, and so on, endlessly. That is happening everywhere; the strongest will prevails. It is worthless, worthless.


The Mother: When we say, “We are at the service of the Divine”, it is not just words. It is He who should act through us, not we ourselves.   The greatest objection is: How can we know the divine Will?


The Mother: But as a matter of fact, I tell you: if you sincerely renounce your personal will, you will know.  Yes, that’s it.   ( :) So, you will explain that to them.


The Mother: We want to change life — we do not want to run away from it.... Until now all those who have tried to know what they called God, to enter into relation with God, they have abandoned  life. They have said, “Life is an obstacle. We shall abandon life for that.” So, in India you had the sannyasins who renounced everything; in Europe you had the monks and the ascetics.


The Mother: Well, they can escape, even though when they are reborn they will have to begin all over again. But life remains as it is.     I have been asked to formulate the aspiration of Auroville.


The Mother: Because there is a lot of goodwill, but it is... it does not seem to be organised. So, I said: the best thing to do is to formulate what Auroville wants to be. That will provide some coordination. But it is a great task.


The Mother: Each time, we could formulate one of the aspirations, or else you could bring me a question each time. And there will be many of them, so, one question and then either I will answer right away or I will give you the answer the next time. Or else, we can try to express together the aspiration of Auroville.  Of course! Of course!


The Mother: I know what I want, I know what I want Auroville to be. But there is a considerable gap... It is Auroville in a few years’ time, many years from now.  This is how we will proceed: each time you come, I will give you one of Auroville’s aspirations and then we’ll put them one after the other, and the next time you can ask me a question on what I have said the time before. There is one drawback; it is  not always the same people who come.


The Mother: There are three of you who always come. You must keep up the continuity.  What must one be to be a true Aurovilian? You put the question like that. What must one be to be a true Aurovilian?


The Mother: ( ) Do you have any ideas?  That is good, it is good; but there are not many like that.


The Mother: ( )  Here, give me a piece of paper. I’m going to write that down as number one.  () “To Be a True Aurovilian.


The Mother: ” I have written it with only one “l” on purpose.  So, we shall see about number two.  From the point of view of behaviour, of more-down-to-earth things, for example: We want to be free from all moral and social conventions. But that is where we have to be very careful!


The Mother: One must not liberate oneself from these things by sinking below them into licence and the blind satisfaction of desires; one must liberate oneself from these conventions by rising above them and by eliminating desires, and replace moral rules by obedience to the Divine.   ( )  It is not in a form which can be written down.  Now we will be silent.


The Mother: Eh?   A question? What question? Who has a question?


The Mother: Difﬁcult? Why is it difﬁcult?  Don’t you have any students?  What reason do they give? Is it laziness, indolence, or because they feel superior?


The Mother: If it is laziness, you must begin slowly and gradually build up as the body becomes used to it. If it is because of a sense of superiority, that is a disease! ( ) It must be


The Mother: cured!  We have been given a body not to reject it but to make it into something better. And that is precisely one of the goals of Auroville. The human body must be improved, perfected, and it must become a superhuman body capable of expressing a being higher than man. And this certainly cannot happen if  we neglect it.


The Mother: It is by an enlightened physical culture and by using physical activities — the activities of the body — not for little personal needs and satisfactions, but to make the body more capable of expressing a higher beauty and consciousness.  And for that, physical education has an important place, which should be given to it.  The question “Why are they like that?” — everyone says to me, “They are like this. They are like that. Why are they like that?”


The Mother: And in every domain. And that is precisely why I thought of doing what I spoke of before: formulating the true aspiration of Auroville.  And this cultivation of the body must be done with an enlightened sense, not to do eccentric or marvellous things, but to give the body the possibility of being strong and supple enough to express a higher consciousness.  That will be part of the long list.  They need to be told a little....


The Mother: Each has come with an aspiration, the idea that he would ﬁnd something new, but it is not very clear. And so they must be given a clear picture, comprehensive enough for all the aspirations to be able to ﬁnd their place and their expression. We will do that. We see each other once a week. We will do it little by little.


The Mother: ( ) You will have to tell them, but I have just said it.  They can be told, you can tell them: physical culture has an important place in preparing the body for its new functions.


The Mother: There! ( )  ( :)  There!


The Mother: I have written number two: “The Aurovilian does not want to be a slave to his desires.” It is a major resolution.     () I have some work for you. ( .)


The Mother: Well then, what would you prefer: silence ﬁrst and that afterwards, or that ﬁrst and silence after? It is in writing: what an Aurovilian must be. Not easy.   (


The Mother: ) Look at it. Is there enough light?    (A reads the text of “To Be a True Aurovilian”.)


The Mother: It will be continued. If you want to, make a copy, as many copies as you like, but on the condition that the copies are accurate, that there are no alterations.  Such things have to be written. As it stands, it is merely talk.  When one is speaking like that, it is not in a form which can be preserved.


The Mother: You see, there is the way you speak, the tone of your voice, the force you put into it, and then the expression which completes what is not explicit. Then, when it is printed, all that is missing, and it becomes just talk. It lacks the essential thing: the consciousness one puts into what one says. The words are not enough.  If I had the time I would correct it for you and then you could publish it; but as it stands now, it is not possible.


The Mother: When you read, you are with the words alone, and very few people are capable of drawing on the force while they are reading. The words must be as precise as possible. That is why I have written  down this text. When it is ﬁnished, I will put it in English, then those who don’t know French will be able to understand.


The Mother: Ah!  Oh! Is it because of the food?  Is it surface water?  It would be better to have it analysed.


The Mother: You don’t have a ﬁlter?  There should be one. Only for drinking. Or else it should be boiled and cooled. Otherwise, it is troublesome.


The Mother: It is best to boil it ﬁrst and then ﬁlter it.   Enteritis?  If the water is bad, it keeps coming back. You should get it analysed. (.)


The Mother: Give him some water and ask him to have a look at it. Then we will do what is needed. The best thing, the safest thing is to boil it and then ﬁlter it. And then you must be careful about the vessels; make sure they are clean. If you are careless...


The Mother: Boiling it, that’s easy. Filtering it — someone could make a ﬁlter. Can you take care of it?  And then, don’t drink just anywhere! That is the only thing, the only precaution you have to take in this country: the water.


The Mother: You get all kinds of diseases from the water. I thought that this had already been explained to you. You can build a ﬁlter; make it a big one!     Yes.


The Mother: (Reading)  The aspiration is good, but... I don’t know whether the time has come.  Yes, the idea is good, but this is how I see it. We want to build the Matrimandir; and then, that was the idea: when we begin to build the Matrimandir, everyone who wants to work there will be able to do so.


The Mother: And that would really be working on the central idea.   And it should be soon. It should have been already. So there, there will be work for everyone. We have been thinking of beginning the Matrimandir for a long time.


The Mother: In fact, everyone should come and work there, except, of course, those who work elsewhere. There will be work for everybody. It is better than... It is the centre of the town.  You could tell him this: in principle the idea is good.


The Mother: But as for the application, for a long time, more than a year, we wanted to begin the Matrimandir so that everyone could work there. A person would have to say, “No, I do not want to” and have his reasons.  It is like the Force, the central Force of Auroville, the cohesive Force of Auroville.  There will be gardens. There will be everything, all the possibilities: engineers, architects, all kinds of manual work.


The Mother: So you can tell him from me that he has picked up the idea which was in the air, but that we want its application to be truly symbolic. And when we begin to build the Matrimandir, we will put everyone to work on it. Not every day and all the time, but it will be organised.   Is that all you wanted to say?


The Mother: ( )  What has been done with what I wrote?  It doesn’t seem to have had much effect.


The Mother: Good. So now, do you want a meditation? Not a meditation:  silence. If possible, mental silence. In order to have true knowledge one must achieve mental silence.


The Mother: You are still... who among you can be silent mentally?  Does everybody understand French?  ( ) I was asking, who knows how to be perfectly silent mentally?


The Mother: No? Nobody? ( ) That’s what we are trying here.


The Mother: ( ) Shall we try?


The Mother: (Laughter)  Who has succeeded? Not yet. Then, silence.  (


The Mother: )  A noisy silence!    No questions? Yes?


The Mother: What do you have to say?  ( ) What will they do with the blessings?  Where is he going to buy them?


The Mother: Madras is a city. Cows are not born in cities.    Oh! I’m quite willing to give a blessings packet for him, but not for the cows!


The Mother: Is that all?  It is my fault for not anticipating that. Otherwise I would have told them to let you in for that. I had not anticipated it. I could perhaps ask Z if he would like to give you a talk.


The Mother: Ah, well then...  The reason is something quite different. It had nothing to do with that. The reason is quite simply that it is rather difﬁcult to make a rule that applies for one person and not for another — very complicated.


The Mother: And unfortunately, among the people living in Auroville there are some who drink. And there are other things too... But anyway, one was found almost dead drunk in the Playground. So, naturally, with us here at the Ashram it is forbidden to drink, to drink alcohol. It caused a terrible uproar.


The Mother: That is the reason. It is not an inner reason, it is a very practical reason. It is impossible to say, “This one may go; that one cannot.” What can they do at the door? And it almost caused a revolution.


The Mother: If they ask my advice, I would say, I advise you  not to drink because it diminishes the consciousness and ruins your health. But some people do not ask my advice. And I do not want to make rules for Auroville as I did for the Ashram. It is not the same thing.


The Mother: The people who live in Auroville and insist on following all the old habits — the old ones and the new ones too — which harm the consciousness, which lower the consciousness, things like smoking, drinking and, of course, drugs... all   that , it is as if you were cutting pieces off your being.


The Mother: In the Ashram, naturally, I said No. We want to grow in consciousness; we do not want to descend into the pit of desires. To those who refuse to understand I say: the aim of Auroville is to discover a new, deeper, more complete, more perfect life and to show the world that tomorrow will be better than today.  Some people believe that smoking, drinking, etc. will form part of the life of tomorrow. That is their business.


The Mother: If they want to go through this experience, let them do it. They will realise that they are imprisoning themselves in their own desires. But anyway, I am not a moralist, not at all, at all, at all. It is their own business. It is their own business.


The Mother: If they want to go through this experience, let them do it. But the Ashram is not the place for it. Thank God, at the Ashram we have learnt that life is something else. True life is not the satisfaction of desires. I can afﬁrm from experience that all the experiences brought by drugs, all that contact with the invisible world, can be had in a much better, more conscious and controlled way without drugs.


The Mother: Only, one must control oneself. It is more difﬁcult than swallowing poison. But I am not going to preach.  When and if Auroville becomes the example of a higher life, having conquered all desires and opened itself to higher forces, then we will be able to go everywhere. When the Aurovilians become lights moving in the world, they will be welcome.


The Mother: There!   But I believe I have written something like that. No? What I gave you? They were not just words; these things are very concrete.


The Mother: Is that all? Or do you have anything else?  ()   Since we have set aside all conventions, immediately everybody thinks: “Ah! Nice place to satisfy our desires.”


The Mother: And they nearly all come with that intention.  And because I built a maternity clinic for the children of people I was obliged to send away from the Ashram, so that they would have a place to have their children, people think that the maternity clinic is intended for all illegitimate children.  I am not concerned about legality, I am not concerned about laws or conventions. But what I do want is a more divine life and not an animal life.  And they turn freedom into license, they use it to satisfy their desires.


The Mother: And all the things that we have truly worked all our lives to master, they indulge in — a dissipation. I am absolutely disgusted.  We are here to give up all desires and turn towards the Divine and to become conscious of the Divine. The Divine we seek is not remote and inaccessible. He is at the core of His own creation and what He wants us to do is to ﬁnd Him, and by our personal transformation to become capable of knowing Him, of uniting with Him and, in the end, of manifesting Him consciously.


The Mother: This is what we should consecrate ourselves to, this is our true reason for existence. And our ﬁrst step towards this sublime realisation is the manifestation of the supramental Consciousness.  To realise and manifest the Divine in our own lives is the way, not to become animals and live like cats and dogs.  Just the opposite! The greater part of the population of Auroville is a subhumanity instead of a superhumanity.


The Mother: Well, it is time for all that to come to an end.  There are people who have come just like that, and now when I tell them: “This won’t do at all,” they answer: “Oh, we didn’t come here for that!”   How I would like to be able to go and tell them all to their faces that they are mistaken, that things are not like that. But I think it is time to write it down.  How pretty it is, a very pretty humanity!


The Mother: Yes, I know. I know, when I am in this state I see the Force all the time — it is not my force, it is the Divine Force. As for myself, I try, I try to be like that. This body tries to be simply... simply a transmitter, as transparent as possible, as impersonal as possible.  So that the Divine can do what He wants.


The Mother: ()  Yesterday, it was ﬁfty-eight years since I came here for the ﬁrst time. For ﬁfty-eight years I have been working, for the body to be as transparent and as immaterial as possible, in other words, not to be an obstruction to the Force that is coming down.  Now, now it is the body, the body itself that wants it with all its cells. That is the only reason for its existence.


The Mother: To try, to try to realise on earth a purely transparent, translucid element which would allow the Force to act without distorting it.     ( )   A proposal has been made for the solution of our difﬁculties in organising Indian independence and it is being accepted with whatever bitterness of regret and searchings of the heart by Indian leaders.  But do you know why this proposal has been made to us?


The Mother: It is to prove to us the absurdity of our quarrels.  And do you know why we have to accept these proposals?  It is to prove to ourselves the absurdity of our quarrels.  Clearly, this is not a solution; it is a test, an ordeal which, if we live it out in all sincerity, will prove to us that it is not by cutting a country into small bits that we shall bring about its unity and its greatness; it is not by opposing interests against each other that we can win for it prosperity; it is not by setting one dogma against another that we can serve the spirit of Truth.  In spite of all, India has a single soul and while we have to wait till we can speak of an India one and indivisible, our cry must be: Let the soul of India live forever!


The Mother:   The Soul of India is one and indivisible. India is conscious of her mission in the world. She is waiting for the exterior means of manifestation.


The Mother:   I 15 August 1947  O our Mother, O Soul of India, Mother who hast never forsaken thy children even in the days of darkest depression, even when they turned away from thy voice, served other masters and denied thee, now when they have arisen and the light is on thy face in this dawn of thy liberation, in this great hour we salute thee.  Guide us so that the horizon of freedom opening before us may be also a horizon of true greatness and of thy true life in the community of the nations. Guide us so that we may be always on the side of great ideals and show to men thy true visage, as a leader in the ways of the spirit and a friend and helper of all the peoples.   ( ) It is the ﬂag of India’s spiritual mission.


The Mother: And in the accomplishment of this mission will India’s unity be accomplished.     It is by being sincere, courageous, enduring and honest that you can best serve your country, make it one and great in the world.


The Mother: ( ) Let the splendour of Bharat’s past be reborn in the realisation of her imminent future with the help and blessings of her living soul.    India must be saved for the good of the world since India alone can lead the world to peace and a new world order.§   Divine Power alone can help India. If you can build faith and cohesion in the country it is much more powerful than any man-made power.§   There must be a group forming a strong body of cohesive will with the spiritual knowledge to save India and the world.


The Mother: It is India that can bring Truth in the world. By manifestation of the Divine Will and Power alone, India can preach her message to the world and not by imitating the materialism of the West.  By following the Divine Will India shall shine at the top of the spiritual mountain and show the way of Truth and organise world unity.§    The future of India is very clear.


The Mother: India is the Guru of the world.  The future structure of the world depends on India. India is the living soul. India is incarnating the spiritual knowledge in the world. The Government of India ought to recognise the signiﬁcance of India in this sphere and plan their action accordingly.§


The Mother:   When India, emerging victorious from a deadly combat, regains her territorial integrity; when, emerging triumphant from a moral crisis that is more deadly still — since instead of killing the body it destroys the soul-contact, a much greater  tragedy — India resumes her true place and mission in the world, these petty quarrels over governmental and political rivalries, which consist entirely of personal interests and ambitions, will be automatically resolved in a just and enlightened accord.    ( )  For us the 1st November has a deep signiﬁcance.


The Mother: We have a ﬂag which Sri Aurobindo called the Spiritual Flag of United India.  Its square form, its colour and every detail of its design have a symbolic meaning. It was hoisted on the 15th August 1947 when India became free. It will now be hoisted on the 1st November 1954 when these settlements get united with India and it will be hoisted in the future whenever India recovers other parts of herself. United India has a special mission to fulﬁl in the world.


The Mother: Sri Aurobindo laid down his life for it and we are prepared to do the same.      ( )


The Mother: India must rise to the height of her mission and proclaim the Truth to the world.   [facsimile]


The Mother: Yes, it seems rather necessary.      The future of India is luminous in spite of its present gloom.


The Mother:   ( )   This kind of thinking is quite out of place at this moment.  One should never criticise someone if one has not proved indisputably that, in the same circumstances, one can do better than he.  Do you feel yourself capable of being an unequalled Prime Minister of India?


The Mother: I reply: certainly not, and advise you to keep silent and to remain quiet.     Patriotic sentiments are not incompatible with our yoga — far from it — to will for the strength and the integrity of one’s  Motherland is a quite legitimate sentiment, the will that she may make progress and that more and more she may manifest, in full freedom, the truth of her being, is a ﬁne and noble will which cannot be harmful for our yoga.


The Mother: But one must not get excited, one must not plunge prematurely into action. One can and should pray, aspire and will for the victory of the truth and, at the same time, continue to discharge one’s daily duties and wait quietly for the unmistakable sign to come, indicating the action to be done.   With my blessings.


The Mother:   Silence!  Silence!  This is a time for gathering energies, and not for wasting them away in useless and meaningless words.  Anyone who proclaims loudly his opinions on the present situation of the country, must understand that his opinions are of no value and cannot, in the least, help Mother India to come  out of her difficulties.


The Mother: If you want to be useful, first control yourself and keep silent.  Silence! Silence! Silence!  It is only in silence that anything great can be done.


The Mother:   It is all right. I accept. I take this occasion to tell you that I have just sent directly to Delhi the offering of the Ashram for the defence of India.


The Mother: With my blessings.


The Mother: [ facsimile ]  True spirituality is not to renounce life, but to make life perfect with the Divine Perfection.  This is what India must show to the world now.


The Mother:    [facsimile] Overgrow your small egoistic personality and become a worthy child of our Mother India, fulfil your duties with honesty and rectitude, and always keep cheerful and confident, with a steady trust in the Divine’s Grace.


The Mother: India’s true destiny is to be the Guru of the world.  The present reality is a big falsehood — hiding an eternal truth.   (a) Ignorance; (b) fear; (c) falsehood.   No.


The Mother: Waking up of the yearning for Truth. Because without Truth there is no reality.  Insincerity. Because insincerity leads to ruin.    My dear child, I did not say anything against Bengal in particular.


The Mother: I said that all the events that are taking place are due to the lack of receptivity in, who still seem to be in the same state of consciousness that was natural and general three or four hundred years ago.  Obviously, one could have hoped that the Bengalis, because of their faith, would have given the example of a greater receptivity and refused to yield to these movements of unconscious violence. But as you very rightly say, each one can ﬁnd the answer within himself and sincerely ask himself how much he has taken advantage of his stay here! If even here the result is slight and mediocre, what can one expect from those who are not under the direct and immediate inﬂuence?  The only remedy: “Awake and collaborate!”


The Mother:  Nehru leaves his body but his soul is one with the Soul of India that lives for Eternity.     ( )


The Mother: The map was made after the partition.  It is the map of the true India in spite of all passing appearances, and it will always remain the map of the true India, whatever people may think about it.    The Mother at the Playground in front of the spiritual map of India on 21 February 1952 Our aim is not a national system of education for India, but an education for the world at large.    Yes, this is quite correct and part of what I would have said if I had had time to answer your questions.


The Mother: India has or rather the knowledge of the, but she neglected matter and suffered for it.  The West has the knowledge of matter but rejected the Spirit and suffers badly for it.  An integral education which could, with some variations, be adapted to all the nations of the world, must bring back the legitimate authority of the Spirit over a matter fully developed and utilised.  This is in short what I wanted to say.


The Mother: With blessings.      (  )


The Mother: B I I E  Prepare her children for the rejection of falsehood and the manifestation of Truth.   Make matter ready to manifest the Spirit.  To teach to the world that matter is false and impotent unless it becomes the manifestation of the Spirit.


The Mother: Its only use is to make the material basis stronger, completer and more effective for the manifestation of the Spirit.   The unity of all the nations is the compelling future of the world.  But for the unity of all nations to be possible, each nation must ﬁrst realise its own unity.  Unity must be a living fact and not the imposition of an arbitrary rule. When India will be one, she will have spontaneously a language understood by all.


The Mother: Get out of conventions and insist on the growth of the soul.  a) The almost exclusive importance given to success, career and money.  b) Insist on the paramount importance of the contact with the Spirit and the growth and manifestation of the Truth of the being.


The Mother: I would like them (the Government) to recognise Yoga as education, not so much for ourselves, but it will be good for the country.  Matter will be transformed, that will be a solid base. Life will be divinised. Let India take the lead.


The Mother: ( )  Essays on the Gita  Here is the whole quotation which I had prepared in advance for those who would ask the wherefore of the present situation.  I am sending it to you so that your question is taken care of.  “No real peace can be till the heart of man deserves peace; the law of Vishnu cannot prevail till the debt to Rudra is paid.  To turn aside then and preach to a still unevolved mankind the law of love and oneness?


The Mother: Teachers of the law of love and oneness there must be, for by that way must come the ultimate salvation. But not till the Time-Spirit in man is ready, can the inner and ultimate prevail over the outer and immediate reality.  Christ and Buddha have come and gone, but it is Rudra who still holds the world in the hollow of his hand. And meanwhile the ﬁerce forward labour of mankind tormented and oppressed by the powers that are proﬁteers of egoistic force and their servants cries for the sword of the Hero of the struggle and the word of its prophet.”   It is for the sake and triumph of Truth that India is ﬁghting and must ﬁght until India and Pakistan have once more become  because that is the truth of their being.


The Mother: [ facsimile]   They could not do otherwise.    It is both at the same time.


The Mother: It is a chaotic means of preparation.  India should be the spiritual guide explaining what is happening and helping to shorten the movement. But, unfortunately, in her blind ambition to imitate the West, she has become materialistic and neglectful of her soul.    The Supreme Wisdom is seeing to it.


The Mother:   Without any doubt — and for the present, there is much to be done!


The Mother: It is the pressure upon the entire earth of the force of Truth which causes disorder, confusion and falsehood to spring up everywhere in a refusal to be transformed.   The way of the Truth is certain, but it is difﬁcult to say when and how it will come about.    India the spiritual leader of the world. Inside she has the capacity, but outside... for the moment there is still much to do for her to become actually the spiritual leader of the world.


The Mother: There is such a wonderful opportunity just now! but...


The Mother: ( )  For the Government of India, one thing is to be known — does it want to live for the future, or does it desperately stick to the past?


The Mother: (  )  O India, land of light and spiritual knowledge! Wake up to your true mission in the world, show the way to union and harmony.    India has become the symbolic representation of all the difﬁculties of modern mankind.


The Mother: India will be the land of its resurrection — the resurrection to a higher and truer life.    In the whole creation the earth has a place of distinction, because unlike any other planet it is evolutionary with a psychic entity at its centre. In it, India, in particular, is a divinely chosen country.


The Mother: It is only India’s soul who can unify the country.  Externally the provinces of India are very different in character, tendencies, culture, as well as in language, and any attempt to unify them artiﬁcially could only have disastrous results.  But her soul is one, intense in her aspiration towards the spiritual truth, the essential unity of the creation and the divine origin of life, and by uniting with this aspiration the whole country can recover a unity that has never ceased to exist for the superior mentality.   ( )  Let us all work for the greatness of India.


The Mother:    ( )  Let India work for the future and set the example. Thus she will recover her true place in the world.  Since long it was the habit to govern through division and opposition.


The Mother: The time has come to govern through union, mutual understanding and collaboration.  To choose a collaborator, the value of the man is more important than the party to which he belongs.   The greatness of a country does not depend on the victory of a party but on the union of all the parties.


The Mother: [facsimile] India must find back and manifest her soul.    Become conscious of your psychic being. Let your psychic being become intensely interested in India’s Soul and aspire towards it, with an attitude of service; and if you are sincere you will succeed.


The Mother: India is the country where the psychic law rule and the time has come for that. Besides, it is the only possible salvation for this country whose consciousness has unfortunately been distorted by the inﬂuence and domination of a foreign nation, but which, in spite of everything, possesses a unique spiritual heritage.  Blessings.    ()


The Mother: We want to be messengers of light and truth. At once a future of harmony offers itself to be proclaimed to the world.  The time has come for the old habit of governing by fear to be replaced by the government of love.


The Mother: (  )  True liberty is an ascending movement, not yielding to the lower instincts.   True liberty is a divine manifestation.


The Mother: We want the true liberty for India so that she may be the right example for the world as the demonstration of what humanity must become.      (


The Mother: )  The situation is serious. It is only a strong and enlightened action that can pull the country out of it.  Blessings.