The Mother: Family considerations do not interest me at all. The salary should depend on the work of the worker, on his ability, his regularity, not on the number of people he has to feed. For if we took these circumstances into consideration, it would no longer be paid work but charity, and as I have said very often, we are not a relief committee. As a general rule I have not increased the salary of the workers and servants this year, but if this boy works very well and if you are satisﬁed with his behaviour, I can give him 9 rupees instead of 8, to begin with.


The Mother:   When the workmen come to fetch their do not detain them unduly.  After a day’s work they need to go home for rest.    A servant is not a convict and must be allowed some amount of liberty and free movement.


The Mother:   I am sure that servants behave according to the way they are treated.    It is very bad to constantly rebuke servants — the less you scold them, the better it is.


The Mother: When X asks you to scold them you must refuse to do so and tell him that I have forbidden you to do it.  As for your co-workers, each one must be left free to do according to his own feelings.  My love and blessings.


The Mother: If you are sure that the servants are robbing, it proves that they are not properly supervised and you will have to look to it more carefully.    I told you already my point of view about the number of workmen. The more they are, the less they do.


The Mother: I do not approve of 14 men for the vegetables. The work can be done and well done with much less.    My dear child, X will have told you my decision about Y. I had to take it, in spite of your “objection”, because this man only asked to be given another work in the Ashram; he neither threatened nor  asked for more wages.


The Mother: He is a good worker and it would be a pity to lose him. This you can easily understand if you get over the ﬁrst egoistic reactions to this affair; and surely you cannot accept the feeling of being “insulted” which is quite unyogic.  I hope that after reading this you will recover and come to a truer view of this very small and unimportant event.   With my love and blessings.


The Mother:  You can take him as daily labourer at annas 10 per day, but I refuse to pay overtime; you will have to see that he ﬁnishes his work in time. Our experience is constant that when the workmen are paid overtime they do practically nothing during the working hours and so manage to have regularly overtime pay at a very high rate.   Today after a break of several years owing to the tragic events which have disrupted the world, we resume our established custom of distributing cloth at New Year.  Unfortunately circumstances are still very difﬁcult, almost worse than during the war, and do not allow me to do what I would have liked.


The Mother: The clothes I shall distribute today are all I could obtain, and even that was extremely difﬁcult. I will only add that I hope that next year it will be better.   D W S A A  It is my desire to explain to the workers the special relationship that exists between them and me as compared with the ordinary relationship between employer and employees.


The Mother: It is also  my desire that having understood this special relationship the workers should always keep this understanding before them in all their deliberations and in all the joint demands which they make to me.  This special relationship is as follows:  (a) The work in the Ashram is not done for proﬁt, as is well known. Therefore during the war when things became expensive and difﬁcult for everyone, it became so for me too, without my income increasing in any way by the fact of the same circumstances. Industrial and commercial concerns made more proﬁts and so could easily increase the wages, but here in the Ashram only the expenses went on increasing.


The Mother: In spite of this, in view of the difﬁculties of the workers I gave them regular increments and dearness allowances.  (b) There have been times when there was no work for some workers, but unlike business ﬁrms I have never dismissed workers but have always endeavoured to ﬁnd some other work for them to do. It has always been my policy not to send away, for want of work, workers who have served faithfully. I could have easily done so and could have even closed down all the works without any serious hardship to the Ashram. But by doing so I would have only increased the general misery which is already so great, and that I did not want to do.


The Mother: (c) There are a good number of workers who have worked for me for many long years and have served me with devotion and faithfulness and who besides considering me as their employer have also looked to me as their protector, of them and their families.  (d) On the whole the workers of the Ashram have so far worked more or less as members of a family with me as their head, and this special relationship has no doubt brought beneﬁt to many of them. I would like to preserve this relationship and make it the foundation for all my dealings with the workers.  With these points in view, it is suggested that the workers of the Ashram should form a separate syndicate of their own,  since they stand with regard to their employer in a different position from other workers, as has already been explained. This syndicate might be afﬁliated to the general body of workers, but would maintain its own line of action and conduct.


The Mother: It is further suggested that this syndicate of Ashram workers should elect a committee which represents the various shades of opinion among the workers. This committee would receive and consider the demands put forward by the workers and, having deliberated and arrived at a decision that it considers just and reasonable, would present it to me for action through their president. I will receive with goodwill and sympathy all requests of this kind and will act for the best according to the reasonableness of the demand.  In these times of struggle and conﬂict and misery and suffering I offer to all who wish to work under me, with me, the possibility of a reciprocal understanding and a fruitful and beneﬁcial collaboration.


The Mother: What I said to the workers on April 21st, 1952: It was unnecessary for you to assemble here and take all this trouble for nothing. But since you are here I have some things to tell you.   First, you are demanding your cloths. I have never said that you would not receive them.


The Mother: But it is difﬁcult to get hold of them and it takes time. They are on the way now and when they arrive you will be informed.  As for an increase in your wages, I have already answered you, and I repeat, I have overstepped the limits of my present resources and I cannot add to my expenditure in any way. So if I increase the wages of some of you, I shall be obliged to dismiss some others in order to compensate. It remains to be seen which is stronger: your individual egoism or your collective egoism.


The Mother: Do you want to increase your own earnings at the expense of the livelihood of some of your fellow-workers?  You complain that you live in misery; and I tell you that you live in misery because you waste your money on drinking and smoking and because you waste your energy in sexual excess. All these — alcohol, tobacco and sexual excess — ruin your health.  Money does not bring happiness. The Sannyasi who possesses nothing and usually eats only one meal a day is perfectly happy if he is sincere.


The Mother: Whereas a rich man may be thoroughly unhappy if he has ruined his health by all sorts of excess and over-indulgence.  I repeat, it is not money that makes a man happy, but rather an inner balance of energy, good health and good feelings. Stop drinking, smoking and over-indulging, stop hating and envying, and then you will no longer lament your lot, you will no longer feel that the world is full of misery.    T E S A A


The Mother: What I wish to do for you.  I shall tell you how I view the solution of your problems, both individual and collective, and what is the truth of the relation between us.  But for the working out of the programme I am going to place before you , two essential conditions are necessary. First, I must have the ﬁnancial means to execute my plan; secondly, you must show a minimum of sincerity, honesty and goodwill in your attitude towards me and towards your work.


The Mother: You have most unfortunately the habit of trying to deceive me. Bad advisers have taught you that that is the best thing to do in your relation with your employer. It may be that when the employer himself seeks to deceive you and exploit you, this attitude on your part is legitimate. But in regard to me it is a foolishness  and a blunder; ﬁrst of all, because you cannot deceive me and your deceit becomes immediately obvious and takes away from me all desire to come to your aid, and secondly because I am not a “boss” and I do not seek to exploit you.  All my effort is towards realising in the world as much truth


The Mother: as actual circumstances will allow ; and with the increase of truth, the welfare and happiness of all will necessarily increase.  Differences of caste and class have no truth for me; all that counts is individual value. My aim is to create a big family in which it will be possible for each one to fully develop his capacities and express them. Each one will have his place and occupation in accordance with his capacities and in a relation of goodwill and brotherhood.


The Mother: As a consequence of such a family organisation there will be no need of remuneration or wages. Work should not be a means of earning one’s livelihood; its purpose should be twofold: ﬁrst to develop one’s nature and capacity for action, and, secondly, in proportion to one’s physical means and moral and intellectual aptitude, to give service to the family to which one belongs and to whose welfare it is but proper to contribute, as it is proper for the family to provide for the real needs of each of its members.  To give a concrete form to this ideal under the present conditions of life, my idea is to build a kind of city accommodating at the outset about two thousand persons. It will be built according to the most modern plans, meeting all the most up-todate requirements of hygiene and public health. It will have not only residential houses, but also gardens and sportsgrounds for physical culture.


The Mother: Each family will be lodged in a separate house; bachelors will be grouped according to their occupations and afﬁnities.  Nothing necessary for life will be forgotten. Kitchens equipped in the most modern hygienic way will supply equally to all simple and healthy food, assuring the energy necessary for the proper maintenance of the body. They will function on a co-operative basis of work in common and of collaboration.   In the matter of education, what is necessary is to arrange for the moral and intellectual instruction and development of all, children and adults: various schools, technical instruction in different vocations, classes for music and dance, a cinema hall where educational ﬁlms will be shown, a lecture hall, a library, a reading room, varied physical education, a sportsground and so on.


The Mother: Each one can choose the kind of activity that is most suitable to his nature and will receive the required training. Even small gardens will be provided where those who like cultivation can grow ﬂowers, fruits and vegetables.  In the matter of health, there will be regular medical visits, a hospital, a dispensary, a nursing home for the segregation of contagious cases. A department of hygiene will have the exclusive function of inspecting all public and private buildings to see that the most rigorous rules of cleanliness are observed everywhere and by all. As natural adjuncts to this department public baths and common laundries will be put at the disposal of everyone.


The Mother: Finally, big stores will be set up where one can ﬁnd all the small “extras” which give life variety and pleasantness and which one will get against “coupons” that will be given in recompense for especially notable achievement in work or conduct.  I shall not give a long description of the organisation and the working of the institution, although everything in it to the smallest details has already been foreseen.  It goes without saying that for admission to live in this ideal place the essential conditions that need to be fulﬁlled are good character, good conduct, honest, regular and efﬁcient work and a general goodwill.    Do you know the story of the hen that laid golden eggs?


The Mother: There was once a peasant whose entire fortune consisted of one hen; but this was a wonderful hen. Every other day she gave him a  golden egg. Now this peasant in his stupid and greedy ignorance imagined that the hen’s body must be full of gold, and that if he opened it up he would ﬁnd a great treasure. So he slit her open — and found nothing. Thus he lost both the hen and the eggs.


The Mother: This story shows us that ignorant and stupid greed is sure to lead to ruin. So learn a lesson from it and understand that if you demand from me what is beyond my means, and if I were so foolish as to yield to you, I should go straight to my ruin and the result would be that all the work would be stopped and you would be out of work and would therefore have no wages at all, and no way to earn your living.   To increase the salary of some will mean to deprive others of their livelihood.   Be careful about the various reports of the workers — they are always biased. Each one speaks always with his preferences (likes and dislikes) and twists things.


The Mother:  Can you make the blind see?  The whole of humanity — with very few exceptions — distrusts the Divine and yet His Grace is most active.   The Employer to the Employee


The Mother: Nothing lasting can be established without a basis of trust. And this trust must be mutual.   You must be convinced that it is not only my good that I am aiming at, but also yours. And on my side I must know and feel that you are here not merely to proﬁt but also to serve.  There is no welfare of the whole without the welfare of each part.


The Mother: There is no harmonious growth of the whole without the progress of each one of its parts.  If you feel you are being exploited, I also will feel that you are trying to exploit me. And if you fear you are being deceived, I also will feel that you are trying to deceive me.  It is only in straightforwardness, sincerity and conﬁdence that human society can progress.


The Mother: ()  Don’t be indulgent, don’t be severe.  They should know that you see everything, but you should not scold them.   X might be told that apart from the superﬁciality and shallowness of his reasons for not coming for Pranam, there are others, much more advanced in Sadhana than he is, who do come. What about these?


The Mother: He is always trying to prove that he is far superior to all the other sadhaks. That is the root of his mistake.     I am happy at your resolution and I hope you will keep to it.


The Mother: I was going to write to you that you must choose between seeing me and drink — for I would not see you if you went on drinking — but I am glad to hear that you have made the resolution already.    Sri Aurobindo says that you must on no account omit your coming to meditation every evening. I entirely agree that this attendance is absolutely necessary.    It is vanity and selﬁshness that prevent the sadhaks from taking the teaching in a good spirit.


The Mother:   Utter must be observed in the room.  Whoever pronounces a word in the presence of Sri Aurobindo will have to leave the place immediately.


The Mother:   Spirit of service has gone away from this place.    There is nobody here, even among the best, who is ready to give up all his habits, conveniences and preferences to win the ﬁnal victory, even if he has to break his neck on the way.


The Mother:    It is your attitude that must change — because nothing is , all belongs to the Divine and is meant for collective use if necessary — and as a concrete illustration of this, I must ask you to leave your present quarters and to go to a new house where you are given some lodging. I advise you to take this decision as a manifestation of the   I am very sorry about it.


The Mother: It is a of the will, much more than of the circumstances and it throws discredit on the Ashram.      ( )  Purani


The Mother: His higher intellectual part has gone to Sri Aurobindo and united with him.  His psychic is with me, and he is very happy and in peace.  His vital is still helping those who seek his help.   ( )


The Mother: It was very interesting, the experience I had that night. Nothing like it I ever had in my life. It was the night before the day he passed away. The time was nine o’clock. I felt he was withdrawing, withdrawing in an extraordinary manner.


The Mother: He was coming out of himself and gathering and pouring himself into me. He was coming out consciously and deliberately with the full force of a concentrated will. He continued to do so steadily, ceaselessly for hours. It ended at about one o’clock, I looked at the time.  There was no slackness or interruption or stop at any moment.


The Mother: It was throughout the same steady continuous ﬂow, without a break, without a diminution in the strength. Such a concentrated undiminishing stream it was. The process continued until he was wholly within me as though he was pumping and exhausting all he was in the body till the last drop. I say it was wonderful — I never experienced such a thing. The ﬂow stopped when there was very little left in the body: I let the body remain as long as it was needed for the work to continue, till long, quite long after the doctors declared it dead.


The Mother: As he was in life, he could not have done the thing, I did not expect it of him, it must have been some past life of his that  was at work and did the thing. Not many Yogis, not even the greatest among them could do such a thing. There he is within here, quite wakeful, looking in a rather amused way at what you people are doing. He is merged in me wholly, that is dwelling within me, not dissolved: he has his personality intact. Amrita is different.


The Mother: He is there outside, one of you, one among you people moving about. At times, of course, when he wants to take rest and repose he comes and lodges here. A remarkable story. A great and very difﬁcult thing Pavitra has done.§


The Mother: It is not my intention to oblige you to wear mill-cloth if you do not want to.  All I said was that I have only mill-cloth to give.  When one becomes free in mind and heart, one’s way of looking at all these things changes entirely. But until the freedom has come, there is no compulsion.  It is by allowing bad thoughts and doubts to approach you that you have come out of the protection.


The Mother:    (  )


The Mother: To sell the things received from Prosperity is an insult to the Divine and will bear its spiritual consequences.      To each one here, power, light and strength are given as much as he can take and even more.


The Mother: It is given for transforming you.  But when you take all that and use it for your personal ends and for so-called human love, it is dishonesty, it is robbery and it is crime of the ﬁrst order.§      You must use everything for the purpose for which it is given, otherwise you commit a crime.


The Mother: I am not speaking merely of physical things. All the inner things that I am giving you all the time, all the strength, light, energy and life that are being poured into you all the time, are meant for the service of the Divine, for the sake of transforming you. If you use them for any other purpose, you are a robber and your crime is the worst possible.§


The Mother: It all depends upon your attitude. If you report a matter with a spirit of vengeance against someone or to show your superiority or with any other personal motive, then it is absolutely wrong and you should not do that. But the true way is that you should be like a mirror and reﬂect faithfully whatever you see. Don’t give your personal colouring and be quite dispassionate.


The Mother: If there is something wrong in the mirror itself, then I can correct it. But you must try to make sure that your mirror does not distort the picture.§    Of course it is bad to complain against anybody. But what X thinks is not correct.


The Mother: If you always remained in meditation, then and then only could you say that you see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil. But when you are in the ﬁeld of work, you have to give me the information. Don’t sit down to judge. Be like a mirror and give the correct image of what you see. It is possible your mirror may be defective, but that is my business and I shall see to it.


The Mother: You have to do your best, to give a correct image according to your light.§       [facsimiles on this entire page]   Auroville wants to be a universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony, above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities.  The purpose of Auroville is to realise human unity.


The Mother:  The Supreme Lord.  The Supreme Lord.  To try to attain the Supreme Perfection.   All life is yoga.


The Mother: Therefore one cannot live without practising the supreme yoga.  Whatever the Supreme Lord wants it to be.  All things are as they should be, when they should be.   If one has not gone beyond that.  If one has not gone beyond that.


The Mother: If one has not gone beyond that.  If one has not gone beyond that.   Nothing is compulsory.


The Mother: No, Auroville will have money relations only with the outside world.   “Money would no longer be the sovereign lord; individual worth would have a far greater importance than that of material wealth and social standing. There, work would not be a way to earn one’s living but a way to express oneself and to develop one’s  capacities and possibilities while being of service to the community as a whole, which, for its own part, would provide for each individual’s subsistence and sphere of action.”  Each person is allowed full freedom.


The Mother: The external relations of residents in Auroville will be established for each one according to his personal aspiration and his activities within Auroville.  The Supreme Lord.  All the spoken languages of the earth.  We do not know.§


The Mother: Auroville is going well and is becoming more and more real, but its realisation does not proceed in the usual human way and it is more visible to the inner consciousness than to the outer eye.§     You say that Auroville is a dream. Yes, it is a “dream” of the Lord and generally these “dreams” turn out to be — much more true than the human so-called realities!


The Mother:   Humanity is not the last rung of the terrestrial creation. Evolution continues and man will be surpassed. It is for each individual to know whether he wants to participate in the advent of this new species.  For those who are satisﬁed with the world as it is, Auroville obviously has no reason to exist.


The Mother:   We would like to make Auroville the cradle of the Superman.


The Mother: Auroville should be at the service of Truth, beyond all social, political and religious convictions.  Auroville is the effort towards peace, in sincerity and Truth.     Auroville is an attempt towards world peace, friendship, fraternity, unity.§


The Mother:    As long as you are some and others, you are necessarily.  You should constantly keep good will and love in your heart and let them pour out on all with tranquillity and equality.


The Mother:   Auroville: At last a place where one will be able to think only of the future.      (


The Mother: )  Auroville is the shelter built for all those who want to hasten towards a future of Knowledge, Peace and Unity.    Conditions for living in Auroville  From the psychological point of view, the required conditions are: (1) To be convinced of the essential unity of mankind and to have the will to collaborate for the material realisation of that unity; (2) To have the will to collaborate in all that furthers future realisations.


The Mother: The material conditions will be worked out as the realisation proceeds.   The aims of Auroville An effective human unity Peace upon earth     Auroville


The Mother: the City  at the service of Truth


The Mother: ( )   [facsimile ]


The Mother: Greetings from Auroville to all men of good will.  Are invited to Auroville all those who thirst for progress and aspire to a higher and truer life.    A C


The Mother: 1 ) Auroville belongs to nobody in particular. Auroville belongs to humanity as a whole.  But to live in Auroville one must be the willing servitor of the Divine Consciousness.


The Mother: 2) Auroville will be the place of an unending education, of constant progress, and a youth that never ages.  3) Auroville wants to be the bridge between the past and the future.   Taking advantage of all discoveries from without and from within, Auroville will boldly spring towards future realisations.  4) Auroville will be a site of material and spiritual researches for a living embodiment of an actual human unity.


The Mother: [facsimile on rest of this and part of next page ]    [facsimile continues]   At last a place where one will be able to think only of progressing and transcending oneself.   At last a place where one will be able to live in peace, without conﬂicts and without rivalries of nations, religions and ambitions.


The Mother: At last a place where nothing will have the right to impose itself as the exclusive truth.     The Ashram will retain its true role of pioneer, inspirer and guide.


The Mother: Auroville is the attempt towards collective realisation.    It is true that to live in Auroville a great progress of consciousness has to be made.  But the moment has come when this progress is possible.  With all my love.


The Mother:    (  )


The Mother: Auroville is meant not for the satisfaction of desires but for the growth of the true consciousness.     Any sincere attempt to bring peace and unity among men is welcome in Auroville.    The push towards the future is to be ready to give up all gains, moral and material, in order to acquire what the future can give us.


The Mother: Very few are like that, there are many who would like to have what the Future is bringing, but they are not ready to give up what they have in order to acquire the new wealth.     It is not for comfort and satisfaction of desires that one comes to Auroville; it is for the growth of consciousness and consecration to the Truth that has to be realised.


The Mother: Unselﬁshness is the ﬁrst need to participate in the creation of Auroville.     The opposition between spirituality and material life, the division between the two has no sense for me as, in truth, life and the spirit are one and it is in and by the physical work that the highest Spirit must be manifested.


The Mother:   The very fact of living and acting is a compromise because the world is not yet living under the law of Truth.    Auroville   No big creation is possible without discipline — individual discipline, group discipline, discipline towards the Divine.


The Mother:   () The important thing is the execution which is to be carried out without ever losing sight of the ideal we want to realise.


The Mother: Discipline is necessary for life. To live, the body itself is subject in all its functions to a rigorous discipline. Any relaxation of this discipline causes illness.   Organisation is a discipline of action, but for Auroville we aspire to go beyond arbitrary and artiﬁcial organisation.  We want an organisation which is the expression of a higher consciousness working to manifest the truth of the future.


The Mother: A hierarchical organisation grouped around the most enlightened centre and submitting to a collective discipline.  This is a makeshift which we should submit to only very provisionally.  In order to be workable, this requires all workers of Auroville to be yogis conscious of the Divine Truth.   An organisation is needed for the work to be done — but the organisation itself must be ﬂexible and progressive.


The Mother: All those who wish to live and work at Auroville must have an integral goodwill, a constant aspiration to know the Truth and to submit to it, enough plasticity to confront the exigencies of work and an endless will to progress so as to move forward towards the ultimate Truth.  And, ﬁnally, a word of advice: be more concerned with your own faults than with those of others. If each one worked seriously at his own self-perfection, the perfection of the whole would follow automatically.§    Auroville The city the earth needs.


The Mother:    ( )  Let Light, peace and joy be with all those who live in Auroville and work for its realisation.


The Mother: Blessings.      (


The Mother: )  Freedom is possible only in union with the Divine.  To unite with the Divine one must have conquered in oneself the very possibility of desire.    The freedom we want to realise in Auroville is not licence — each one doing what he pleases without concern for the well-being of the organisation of the whole.


The Mother: The conception of Auroville is purely divine and has preceded its execution by many years.  Naturally, in the details of the execution the human consciousness intervenes.   The solution is to go deep within oneself and ﬁnd the place where all the differences combine to constitute the essential and eternal Unity.    To Aurovilians To establish in Auroville the harmonious atmosphere which, by deﬁnition, ought to reign there, the ﬁrst step is for each one to look within himself for the cause of friction and misunderstanding.


The Mother: For these causes are on both sides and before demanding anything from others, each one should ﬁrst strive to eliminate them from himself.    Every good Aurovilian should strive to free himself from all desires, all preferences and all repulsions.  Equality in the face of all circumstances is the chief aim to be attained in order to live in Auroville.   Quarrels are altogether contrary to the spirit of Auroville.


The Mother:   Earth needs a place where men can live away from all national rivalries, social conventions, self-contradictory moralities and contending religions; a place where human beings, freed from all slavery to the past, can devote themselves wholly to the discovery and practice of the Divine Consciousness that is seeking to manifest.  Auroville wants to be this place and offers itself to all who aspire to live the Truth of tomorrow.   Auroville is the ideal place for those who want to know the joy and liberation of no longer having any personal possessions.   Peace through human unity:


The Mother: Unity through uniformity is an absurdity.  Unity must be realised through the union of the many.  Each one is part of the unity; each one is indispensable to the whole.    That is absolutely certain for all those who understand Sri Aurobindo’s teaching and have faith in him.  It is with the intention of creating a place where this could come about that we want to establish Auroville.


The Mother: But for this realisation to be possible, each one of us must make an effort to transform himself; for most of the sufferings of men are the result of their own mistakes, both physical and moral.    I have never thought that there would no more be suffering in Auroville, because men, as they are, love suffering and call it to them even while they curse it.  But we shall try to teach them to truly love peace and to try to practise equality.


The Mother: What I meant was involuntary poverty and begging.   Life in Auroville will be organised in such a way that this does not exist — and if beggars come from outside, either they will have to go away or they will be given shelter and taught the joy of work.   There is no fundamental difference in the attitude towards the future and the service of the Divine.   But the people in the Ashram are considered to have consecrated their lives to Yoga (except, of course, the students who are here only for their studies and who are not expected to have made their choice in life).


The Mother: Whereas in Auroville simply the good will to make a collective experiment for the progress of humanity is sufﬁcient to gain admittance.   ()  The task of giving a concrete form to Sri Aurobindo’s vision was entrusted to the Mother. The creation of a new world, a new humanity, a new society expressing and embodying the new consciousness is the work she has undertaken. By the very nature of things, it is a collective ideal that calls for a collective effort so that it may be realised in the terms of an integral human perfection.


The Mother: The Ashram founded and built by the Mother was the ﬁrst step towards the accomplishment of this goal. The project of Auroville is the next step, more exterior, which seeks to widen the base of this attempt to establish harmony between soul and body, spirit and nature, heaven and earth, in the collective life of mankind.     The Ashram is the central consciousness, Auroville is one of the outward expressions. In both places equally the work is done for the Divine.


The Mother: The people who live in the Ashram have their own work and most of them are too busy to give time to Auroville.  Each one must be busy with his own work; this is essential for a proper organisation.    Auroville aspires for union.   To all those who want to live for the future: A physical work is as indispensable to the balance of the body as food.


The Mother: To eat without working causes a serious imbalance.     You must all agree.  That is to do good work.


The Mother:  For everyone to agree each one must rise to the summit of his consciousness; it is on the heights that harmony is created.    Auroville and the Religions  We want the Truth.   For most men, it is what they want that they label truth.


The Mother: The Aurovilians must want the Truth whatever it may be.  Auroville is for those who want to live a life essentially divine but who renounce all religions whether they be ancient, modern, new or future.  It is only in experience that there can be knowledge of the Truth.  No one ought to speak of the Divine unless he has had experience of the Divine.


The Mother: Get experience of the Divine, then alone will you have the right to speak of it.   The objective study of religions will be a part of the historical study of the development of human consciousness.  Religions make up part of the history of mankind and it is in this guise that they will be studied at Auroville — not as beliefs to which one ought or ought not to adhere, but as part of a process in the development of human consciousness which should lead man towards his superior realisation.  PROGRAMME Research through experience of the Supreme Truth A life divine but NO RELIGIONS


The Mother: Our research will not be a search effected by mystic means.  It is in life itself that we wish to ﬁnd the Divine. And it is through this discovery that life can really be transformed.     The Mother on 29 February 1968


The Mother: We give the name of religion to any concept of the world or the universe which is presented as the exclusive Truth in which one must have an absolute faith, generally because this Truth is declared to be the result of a revelation.  Most religions afﬁrm the existence of a God and the rules to be followed to obey Him, but there are some Godless religions, such as socio-political organisations which, in the name of an Ideal or the State, claim the same right to be obeyed.  To seek Truth freely and to approach it freely along his own lines is a man’s right. But each one should know that his discovery is good for him alone and it is not to be imposed on others.   At Auroville nothing belongs to anyone in particular.


The Mother: All is collective property. To be utilised with my blessings for the welfare of all.   To Be a True Aurovilian 1. The ﬁrst necessity is the inner discovery in order to know what one truly is behind social, moral, cultural, racial and hereditary appearances.  At the centre there is a being free, vast and knowing, who awaits our discovery and who ought to become the active centre of our being and our life in Auroville.


The Mother: 2. One lives in Auroville in order to be free from moral and  social conventions; but this freedom must not be a new slavery to the ego, to its desires and ambitions.   The fulﬁlment of one’s desires bars the way to the inner discovery which can only be achieved in the peace and transparency of perfect disinterestedness.  3.


The Mother: The Aurovilian should lose the sense of personal possession. For our passage in the material world, what is indispensable to our life and to our action is put at our disposal according to the place we must occupy.  The more we are consciously in contact with our inner being, the more are the exact means given to us.  4. Work, even manual work, is something indispensable for the inner discovery.


The Mother: If one does not work, if one does not put his consciousness into matter, the latter will never develop. To let the consciousness organise a bit of matter by means of one’s body is very good. To establish order around oneself helps to bring order within oneself.  One should organise one’s life not according to outer and artiﬁcial rules, but according to an organised inner consciousness, for if one lets life go on without subjecting it to the control of the higher consciousness, it becomes ﬁckle and inexpressive.  It is to waste one’s time in the sense that matter remains without any conscious utilisation.


The Mother: 5. The whole earth must prepare itself for the advent of the new species, and Auroville wants to work consciously to hasten this advent.   6. Little by little it will be revealed to us what this new species must be, and meanwhile the best course is to consecrate oneself entirely to the Divine.


The Mother:    All this implies a consciousness which is not very widespread on earth.  This does not mean that things should be given to people who do not know how to use them.  What is needed to administer Auroville is a consciousness free from all conventions and conscious of the supramental Truth. I am still waiting for someone like that.


The Mother: Each one must do his best to achieve that.      ( :)


The Mother: To the inhabitants of Auroville Only those who have resolved to stay in Auroville for good have the right to intervene in its organisation.      All that I have to say for Auroville henceforth shall be put in writing and signed by me.


The Mother:   Blessings.     Calm, peace, tranquillity always, and always to speak as little as possible and to act only when it is necessary.


The Mother: To avoid unconsciousness as much as possible.    True spirituality lies in the service of the divine work.  To refuse to work for all is only a demonstration of selﬁshness, and has no spiritual value.  The ﬁrst thing to do to be able to live in Auroville is to consent to free oneself from one’s ego.


The Mother:   ()   To all Aurovilians My blessings for the progress and the growth of the collective and individual consciousness.


The Mother:    To be an Aurovilian one must at least belong to the enlightened portion of humanity and aspire for the higher consciousness which will govern the species of tomorrow.  Always higher and always better, — beyond egoistic limitations.


The Mother:     Auroville is not a work of charity. A night spent in Aspiration is equivalent to a day’s work.


The Mother: One does not live in Auroville to be comfortable but to grow in consciousness and to serve the Divine.     Is it to satisfy little personal needs that you have come to Auroville?  That was really not necessary.


The Mother: The ordinary world is there for that.  One comes to Auroville to realise a divine life which wants to manifest on earth.  Each one should make an effort in this direction and not remain hypnotised by the so-called “needs” which are nothing but personal fancies.  Look upward and forward, strive to surmount the animal human nature. Make the resolution and you will see that you are helped on the way.


The Mother:  To work for Auroville is to hasten the advent of a more harmonious Future.     In our smallest action we can serve the Divine if we have the right attitude.


The Mother:   It is in work done as an offering to the Divine that the consciousness develops best.   Indolence and inaction result in which is a fall into inconscience and the very opposite of progress and light.  To surmount one’s ego and to live only in the service of the Divine, that is the ideal and the shortest way to acquire the true Consciousness.


The Mother:   I disapprove totally of violence. Each act of violence is a step back on the path leading to the goal to which we aspire.  The Divine is everywhere and always supremely conscious.  Nothing must ever be done that cannot be done before the Divine.


The Mother:  S A  [ facsimile (reproduction of Auroville’s symbol)]  The dot at the centre represents Unity, the Supreme; the inner circle represents the creation, the conception of the City; the petals represent the power of expression, realisation.§


The Mother:    Each thing in its place and there will be a place for everything.    To say “it is impossible to include this thing”, simply means that its true place has not been found.


The Mother:   All fancies are vital movements and most undesirable.  Liberty does not mean to follow one’s desires but, on the contrary, to be free from them.    For each problem there is a solution that can give satisfaction to everybody; but for ﬁnding this ideal solution each one must want it instead of meeting the others with the will to enforce one’s own preference.


The Mother: Enlarge your consciousness and aspire for the satisfaction of all.     Auroville must not lie. Everyone who aspires to be an Aurovilian must make the resolution never to tell a lie.


The Mother:   You see only of the question, but if you want to widen your consciousness it would be better to look from all sides impartially. Later you will discover that this attitude has great advantages.


The Mother:   Widen your consciousness to the dimension of the earth and you will have a place for everything.    The ideal of the Aurovilians must be to become egoless — not at all to satisfy their ego.  If they follow the old human way of selﬁsh claim, how can they hope the world to change?


The Mother: In the beginning the organisation of the week was conceived in this way: six days of work for the collectivity to which the individual belonged; the seventh day of the week was reserved for the inner quest for the Divine and the offering of one’s being to the divine will. This is the only meaning and the only true reason for the so-called Sunday rest.  Needless to say, sincerity is the essential condition for realisation; all insincerity is a degradation.


The Mother: Each one has good reasons to support his own opinion, and I am no expert to judge between them.  But from the spiritual point of view I know that with true goodwill all opinions can be harmonised in a more comprehensive and truer solution. This is what I expect from the workers of Auroville. Not that some give way to others, but that on the contrary all should combine their efforts to achieve a more comprehensive and perfect result.  The ideal of Auroville demands this progress — don’t you want to make it?


The Mother: Blessings.      The only true freedom is the one obtained by union with the Divine.  One can unite with the Divine only by mastering one’s ego.


The Mother:   Auroville wants to be the ﬁrst realisation of human unity based on the teaching of Sri Aurobindo, where men of all countries would be at home.   M UNESCO


The Mother: Auroville is meant to hasten the advent of the supramental Reality upon earth.  The help of all those who ﬁnd the world is not as it ought to be is welcome.  Each one must know if he wants to associate with an old world ready for death, or to work for a new and better world preparing to be born.


The Mother:  Spontaneous work can be done only by a man of genius.   Is there anyone claiming to be a genius?...  Blessings.    To follow all the impulses of the lower nature is surely not the supramental way and has no place here.


The Mother: What we want is to hasten the advent of the supramental, not at all to fall into the ugly condition of a humanity full of desires and low impulses.     So long as we go on telling lies, we go on pushing the happy Future far from us.


The Mother:   Auroville wants to shelter people happy to be in Auroville. Those who are dissatisﬁed ought to return to the world where they can do what they want and where there is place for everybody.   For those who have been taken into Auroville on a wrong statement of theirs, there is only one solution: it is to cure in themselves all falsehood, that is to say, all that contradicts in their consciousness the Presence of the Divine.


The Mother:   The true spirit of Auroville is and must be more and more so.  True collaboration paves the way to divinity.    ( ) Au service de la V´erit´e At the service of Truth Truth  Harmony Good will  Discipline Truth


The Mother: I can work with you only if you do not say a lie and are at the service of Truth.    Before dying, falsehood rises in full swing.  Still people understand only the lesson of catastrophe. Will it have to come before they open their eyes to the Truth?


The Mother: I ask an effort from all so that it has not to be.  It is only the Truth that can save us, truth in words, truth in action, truth in will, truth in feelings. It is a choice between serving the Truth or being destroyed.    Auroville has been created for a progressive superhumanity, not for an infra-humanity governed by its instincts and dominated by its desires.


The Mother: Those who belong to the infra-humanity, the animal humanity, have no place here.  Auroville is for those who aspire for the supramental and make an effort to reach there.    () It is a warning that nature is giving, that those who do not have the true spirit of Auroville will have to change or to go if they do not want to change.    Everybody has to progress and become more sincere.


The Mother: Auroville has been created not for the satisfaction of the egos and their greeds, but for the creation of a new world, the supramental, expressing the divine perfection.   Auroville has been created for a superhumanity, for those who want to surmount their ego and renounce all desire, to prepare themselves for receiving the supermind. They alone are true Aurovilians.  Those who want to obey their ego and satisfy all their desires belong to a subhumanity and have no place here. They must return to the world which is their true place.


The Mother:    To all those who are telling lies  By the simple fact that you are telling lies you prove that you do not wish to be true Aurovilians.


The Mother: If you wish to remain in Auroville you must stop lying.      To


The Mother: be a true Aurovilian one must.     Not the only solution. It is a centre of transformation, a small nucleus of men who are transforming themselves and setting an example to the world. This is what Auroville hopes to be.


The Mother: As long as egoism and bad will exist in the world, a general transformation is impossible.    An amusing deﬁnition occurs to me: a divine anarchy. But the world will not understand. Men must become conscious of their psychic being and organise themselves spontaneously, without ﬁxed rules and laws — that is the ideal.


The Mother: For this, one must be in contact with one’s psychic being, one must be guided by it and the ego’s authority and inﬂuence must disappear.§     Auroville has been created for those who want to progress,  progress.


The Mother: This is written for each one; each one is concerned with himself ﬁrst.     As long as they have desires, they are not true Aurovilians.  Let them not play with words: there is a world of difference between desires and aspiration.


The Mother: Every sincere person knows this.  And above all let them not mistake for the Divine. It is because they deceive themselves that they make this confusion.   They must be conscious of the divine presence in themselves, and for that, the ego must be silenced and desires must disappear.§


The Mother:   Jesus is one of the many forms which the Divine has assumed to enter into relationship with the earth. But there are and there will be many others; and the children of Auroville should replace the exclusiveness of one religion by the wide faith of knowledge.


The Mother:   There is only one solution for falsehood: it is to cure in ourselves all that contradicts in our consciousness the presence of the Divine.


The Mother: It is not what you do but the spirit in which you do it that makes Karmayoga.§     Auroville is not a place for politics; no politics must be done in Auroville and in the ofﬁces of Auroville.


The Mother:   Auroville will become what it must be: Only if and when the people living there will.


The Mother: [ facsimile on this entire page ]


The Mother: When you say “I want to serve the Divine”, do you believe the All-Knowing does not know that it is a lie?     Auroville is created to realise the ideal of Sri Aurobindo who taught us the Karma Yoga. Auroville is for those who want to do the Yoga of work.


The Mother: To live in Auroville means to do the Yoga of work. So all Aurovilians must take up a work and do it as Yoga.   The Matrimandir wants to be the symbol of the Divine’s answer to man’s aspiration for perfection.  Union with the Divine manifesting in a progressive human unity.


The Mother: The Matrimandir wants to be the symbol of the Universal Mother according to Sri Aurobindo’s teaching.   The Matrimandir will be the soul of Auroville.  The sooner the soul is there, the better it will be for everybody and especially for the Aurovilians.


The Mother: It is preferable that the work be organised without paid labour so that it is sure to continue in all circumstances.      (


The Mother: )  Let the Matrimandir be the living symbol of Auroville’s aspiration for the Divine.    [


The Mother: facsimile]    ( ) The fraternity of collaboration.  The aspiration towards Unity in joy and Light.  Blessings.


The Mother:   As we are in a period of construction, it is imperative that the Aurovilians who live at the Centre work on the construction of the Matrimandir.  Those who do not want to work on the Matrimandir should not live at the Centre.    The Matrimandir is directly under the inﬂuence of the Divine and certainly He arranges things better than we could do ourselves.


The Mother:   There is only one Matrimandir, the Matrimandir of Auroville.  The others must have another name.   The safety and strength of the construction should come before personal questions.


The Mother: I count upon you to see that everything is done harmoniously.   Strength, safety, durability, harmonious balance.  The foundations are especially important and should be done by experts.  There is room for everyone of goodwill, and for those who in all sincerity and simplicity want to offer their work , there is enough to keep them usefully occupied.


The Mother: (  )    Let Auroville be the symbol of a progressive Unity.  And the best way to realise this is a unity of aspiration towards the Divine Perfection in work and in feeling, in a consecration of the entire life.


The Mother:  ()  North Mahakali East Mahalakshmi South Maheshwari West Mahasaraswati   ( ) Sincerity, Humility, Gratitude, Perseverance, Aspiration, Receptivity, Progress, Courage, Goodness, Generosity, Equality, Peace.   ( ) Existence, Consciousness, Bliss, Light, Life, Power, Wealth, Utility, Progress, Youth, Harmony, Perfection.   ( )


The Mother: Let us all work with a growing sincerity for the manifestation of the Divine Truth.    ( ) Goodwill and peace to all.   GENERAL Auromod`ele is an attempt and an experiment. As it develops the organisation will be modiﬁed according to the need.  Every organisation should remain supple and ﬂexible so as to progress constantly and modify itself when the need arises.


The Mother:   Nothing on any Auroville project can be published without my approval.  Blessings.


The Mother: A mild and harmless protector is often more effective than a poisonous one.    Yes, the land itself has a consciousness, even though this consciousness is not intellectualised and cannot express itself.


The Mother: (  )  To be at the head of the Liaison Ofﬁce one must feel absolutely equal towards all and every nation.  A is required in this attitude.


The Mother:   Yes.     Yes, they can go if it is well organised.  Blessings.


The Mother:   No.  Do not multiply departments, titles and names. It complicates life uselessly.


The Mother:    (  )  We shall work for a better tomorrow.


The Mother:  ( ) I should like this whole place to be called “Peace”, and that peace, actual peace should reign there, not only between the occupants but with the whole of Auroville, present and future.


The Mother: Be conﬁdent and peaceful yourself.  That is contagious.  My blessings are with you.


The Mother: (  )  To do always our best in all sincerity.  To be always our best in all sincerity.


The Mother:    ( )


The Mother: A New House for a New Consciousness.  Blessings.    Auromod`ele is being built to make a concrete experiment and to learn how to live in Auroville.


The Mother:    My will is that you do some useful, practical and effective work in America or here according to your feeling.


The Mother: With love and blessings.    The purpose of life in Auromod`ele is to learn to live in Auroville, to make all the experiments necessary for learning to live in Auroville.  We want to ﬁnd a way for the community to live for the Divine.


The Mother: Each individual has his own way but the group community should ﬁnd a way to suit everyone.      (


The Mother: )  It would perhaps be better to ask people who, by a serious practice of yoga, have had at least a glimpse of the Higher Wisdom.


The Mother: Don’t think too much of yourself.  Love and blessings.


The Mother: ( )  A sincere will to know and to progress.


The Mother: ( )  (1) Tamil (2) French (3) Simpliﬁed Sanskrit to replace Hindi as the language of India (4) English as the international language.


The Mother: ( )    A Sweet Year


The Mother:  ( Gazette Aurovilienne)  We would wish that this Gazette be the messenger of the future and of the progress to be realised for humanity.


The Mother: (   :)  The education is free. But naturally the transport and food must be paid for.§


The Mother:    (   )


The Mother: NO, NO, NO.  Auroville should not fall back into old errors which belong to a past that is trying to revive.


The Mother: Cultivation without chemical fertilisers and dangerous insecticides is advisable.      (


The Mother: )  The future belongs to those who want to progress.   Blessings to those whose motto is: “Always better.”


The Mother: In the physical the Divine manifests as Beauty.      (


The Mother: )  Flowers are the prayers of the vegetal world.  The plants offer their beauty to the Supreme.


The Mother: (  )  Unity.    My love and blessings are always with you for progress and transformation.


The Mother:   At the service of the Divine in full receptivity and sincerity.  Blessings.


The Mother: SOCIAL REGULATIONS  ( :)  The most important thing is to be quiet, in a peaceful atmosphere so that the Force can work without disturbance.§    ...


The Mother: Of course the whole idea of marriage is amusing because I consider the thing childish.  You know in Auroville there will be no marriages. If a man and a woman love each other and want to live together they may do so without any ceremony. If they want to separate they can also do so freely. Why should people be compelled to stay together when they have ceased to love each other?


The Mother: A lot of crimes would be prevented if people were free in this respect. They would not have to hide things from one another or even commit crimes to be separated. Of course, if they truly love each other they will continue to live together always naturally, without being forced to do so by any law. That is why this ceremony and ritual of marriage is so childish.  Children born in Auroville will have no family name.


The Mother: They will have just the ﬁrst name.§  ( )   To unite your physical lives, your material interests, to become partners in order to face together the difﬁculties and successes, the defeats and victories of life — that is the very foundation of marriage, but you already know that it is not enough.   To be united in your sensations, to have the same aesthetic tastes and enjoyments, to be moved in common by the same things, one through the other and one for the other — that is good, that is necessary, but it is not enough.


The Mother: To be one in your deeper feelings, to keep a mutual affection and tenderness that never vary in spite of all the blows of life and can withstand every weariness and irritation and disappointment, to be always and on every occasion happy, extremely happy, to be together, to ﬁnd in every circumstance tranquillity, peace and joy in each other — that is good, that is very good, that is indispensable, but it is not enough .  To unite your minds, to harmonise your thoughts and make them complementary, to share your intellectual preoccupations and discoveries; in short, to make your sphere of mental activity identical through a widening and enrichment acquired by both at once — that is good, that is absolutely necessary, but it is not enough.   Beyond all that, in the depths, at the centre, at the summit of the being, there is a Supreme Truth of being, an Eternal Light, independent of all the circumstances of birth, country, environment, education; That is the origin, cause and master of our spiritual development; it is That which gives a permanent direction to our lives; it is That which determines our destinies; it is in the consciousness of That that you must unite.


The Mother: To be one in aspiration and ascension, to move forward at the same pace on the same spiritual path, that is the secret of a lasting union.     At Aspiration (Auroville) They want to have a meditation at the same time and with the same programme as the Ashram. The necessary information should be given to X.


The Mother:     Concentrating together is indeed a very good thing and helps you to become conscious. But it cannot be imposed.


The Mother: I advise you and them to organise this moment of silence daily for all those who want to participate, but without imposing anything on the others. It is not compulsory but it is good.


The Mother: Auroville  Smoking must not become a public menace.  Those who cannot do without smoking may do it in a room expressly set aside for the purpose.


The Mother: Children below ﬁfteen years will see only educational ﬁlms.§  Care should be taken in selecting ﬁlms to be shown in Auroville.§  All that encourages the lower movements and actions must be avoided.     Not more than a week.


The Mother:  Drugs are prohibited in Auroville.  If there are any who take them, they do it deceitfully.  The ideal Aurovilian, eager to become conscious of the Divine Consciousness, takes neither tobacco, nor alcohol, nor drugs.


The Mother:   Perhaps Aurovilians have not attained the level of consciousness that is expected of them.     This is a lie.


The Mother: I have said,, and I do not go back on my word.  This so-called experience warps the development and damages the consciousness; on the pathway to the Divine it is a fall into the rut.  This is clear, I think.   In this country cleanliness is to avoid typhoid.


The Mother:    ( )  An absolute cleanliness is in this country and climate to avoid illness.


The Mother: Great precautions must be taken.     Sexual activities bind man to the animal and they will be completely transformed in the future.  Those who want to work for the future and prepare themselves to live it, would do well not to be hypnotised by this  subject which animalises the consciousness.


The Mother: Above all, do not associate it with love in your thought, for they really have nothing to do with each other.      We


The Mother: are always too attracted by animals, and it is more interesting to look to the future than towards the past.  As far as I am concerned, a zoo does not interest me.  We already tend to be too attached to animality rather than supermentality.§   To take pleasure in dirt and disorder is a sure sign of a nature which rejects its psychic being and wants nothing to do with it.


The Mother:   Cleanliness is the ﬁrst indispensable step towards the supramental manifestation.   RELATIONS WITH LOCAL VILLAGERS   This is indispensable.


The Mother:    ( :)  Once you have started giving food to the, you cannot stop doing so, otherwise you would lose their conﬁdence. This is imperative — show it to the others.


The Mother: Blessings to all.      (


The Mother: :)  Very good.    Goodwill for all and goodwill from all is the basis of peace and harmony.  Blessings.


The Mother:   Those who are in contact with the villagers should not forget that these people are worth as much as they are, that they know as much, that they think and feel as well as they do. They should therefore never have an attitude of ridiculous superiority.  They are at home and you are the visitors.§


The Mother:   To the inhabitants of Aspiration: A relationship that is not only cordial but friendly with the inhabitants of the neighbouring village is absolutely indispensable. For the realisation of Auroville the ﬁrst step is to establish a true human fraternity — any shortcoming in this regard is a grave mistake which can compromise the whole work.  My blessings are with all sincere effort towards harmony.


The Mother:   Yes.  Yes.   All that they choose to take.  Certainly it would be good if somebody was intelligent enough to do it and do it well.


The Mother: There must be a period of at least one month during which they are given what they ask. Afterwards we shall see what may be done reasonably.     Yes — at cost price.


The Mother: Blessings.    From the spiritual point of view, India is the foremost country in the world. Her mission is to set the example of spirituality.  Sri Aurobindo came on earth to teach this to the world.


The Mother: This fact is so obvious that a simple and ignorant peasant here is, in his heart, closer to the Divine than the intellectuals of Europe.  All those who want to become Aurovilians must know this and behave accordingly; otherwise they are unworthy of being Aurovilians.    ()  It is all right.


The Mother: But while putting things in order, be very careful not to offend the people from the Tamil village. It has been very difﬁcult for us to win their conﬁdence and nothing should be done which could make them lose this new-born conﬁdence which is of capital importance.   Take with you someone who knows and speaks Tamil ﬂuently so that you can talk with them and explain things to them.  They are your brothers in spirit — this should never be forgotten.


The Mother: In principle this way is all right. But in practice, and to avoid all possibility of failure (because failure would have a deplorable effect), we must wait for an indication from circumstances of which I will be immediately informed. And then I will give the signal to go ahead.


The Mother: I never gave her this work ofﬁcially.  But if she brings money so much the better.    If it is at all possible for you it would be extremely helpful and in conformity with the Truth of things.


The Mother: (  )  They may not practise themselves, but if they do not know about yoga, how can they understand the purpose of Auroville?


The Mother: ()  It is for this that we all work here, but not in the artiﬁcial manner of philanthropists who work on the exterior effects only.  We want to eliminate for good the of suffering by divinising matter through the integral transformation.


The Mother: It is the lack of push towards the future that impedes the ﬂow of money.  A conﬁdent certitude in the inevitable future can break this resistance.    It is not this kind of people who can give to Auroville what it needs.


The Mother: The work of U.S.A. is to provide the ﬁnancial help needed to prepare the earth for the new creation.  Become aware of those, individual or organisation, capable of bringing about this transformation and give them the necessary money.    All right.


The Mother: Blessings.      ( :)  All these questions prove that you expect Auroville to be a continuation of all that has been done up to now.


The Mother: Auroville wants to be a new creation expressing a new consciousness in a new way and according to new methods.      The more you chase funds the less you get.


The Mother: What you should do is to inform people about Auroville. That is important.§    It is only when people feel that it is their good fortune to help Auroville grow that the funds will come abundantly.


The Mother:    The lands for Auroville are to be bought and can be bought — the money is needed.  Will you help?


The Mother: You know our need.  Will you not be the man who helps?    ()  Give your money to the Divine work and you will be richer than you would be by keeping it.   Have you heard of Auroville?


The Mother: For a long time, I had a plan of the “ideal town”, but that was during Sri Aurobindo’s lifetime, with Sri Aurobindo living at the centre. Afterwards, I was no longer interested. Then the idea of Auroville — I gave the name Auroville — was taken up again, but from the other end: instead of the formation having to ﬁnd the place, it was the place — near the lake — which gave birth to the formation, and until now I took only a very minor interest in it, for I had received nothing directly. Then our little A took it into her head to have a house there, by the lake, and to have a house for me next to hers, and to offer it to me. And she wrote me all her dreams: one or two sentences suddenly stirred an old, old memory of something which had tried to manifest — a creation — when I was very young and which had again started trying to manifest at the very beginning of the century, when I was with Th´eon.


The Mother: Then all that was forgotten. It came back with this letter; all at once, I had my plan for Auroville.  Now I have my overall plan, I am waiting for B to draw the detailed plans, for I had said from the beginning: “B will be the architect”, and I wrote to B. When he came here last year, he went to see Chandigarh, the town built by Le Corbusier, up there in the Punjab, and he was not very happy. It seems quite ordinary to me — I know nothing about it, I haven’t seen it, I only saw some photographs which were horrible.


The Mother: And while he was speaking to me, I could see that he felt, “Oh, if only I had a town to build!...” So I wrote to him: “If you want, I have a town to build.” He is happy. He is coming. When he comes, I shall show him my plan and he will build the town.


The Mother: My plan is very simple.   The place is up there, on the Madras road, on top of the hill. (.) We have here — naturally, it is not like that in Nature, we shall have to adapt ourselves; it is like that up there on the ideal plane — here, a central point. This central point is a park which I saw when I was very young — perhaps the most beautiful thing in the world from the point of view of physical, material Nature — a park with water and trees, like all parks, and ﬂowers, but not many; ﬂowers in the form of creepers, palms and ferns, all varieties of palms; water, if possible running water, and possibly a small cascade.


The Mother: From the practical point of view, it would be very good: at the far end, outside the park, we could build reservoirs which would be used to supply water to the residents.  So in this park, I saw the “Pavilion of Love”. But I dislike this word, for man has turned it into something grotesque; I am speaking of the principle of Divine Love. But that has changed: it will be “The Pavilion of the Mother” — but not this ( ) — the Mother, the true Mother, the principle of the Mother. I say “Mother” because Sri Aurobindo used that word, otherwise I would have put something else, I would have put “creative principle” or “principle of realisation” or — I do not know....


The Mother: It will be a small building, not a big one, with only a meditation room downstairs, but with columns and probably a circular shape. I say probably, because I am leaving that for B to decide. Upstairs, the ﬁrst ﬂoor will be a room and the roof will be a covered terrace. You know the ancient Indo-Moghul miniatures, with palaces where there are terraces with small roofs supported by columns? You know those old miniatures?


The Mother: Hundreds of them have come into my hands.... But this pavilion is very, very beautiful, a small pavilion like this, with a roof on a terrace, and low walls with couches against them to sit on, to meditate in the open air in the evening, at night. And below, downstairs, at ground-level, a meditation room, simply — something quite bare. There would probably be at the far end something which would be a living light, perhaps the symbol in  living light, a constant light. Otherwise, a very peaceful, very silent place.


The Mother: Nearby, there would be a small dwelling, a small dwelling which would nevertheless have three ﬂoors, but not large-sized, and that would be the house of A, who would serve as a guardian. She would be the guardian of the pavilion. She wrote me a very nice letter but she did not understand all that, of course.  That is the centre.  All around, there is a circular road which separates the park from the rest of the town.


The Mother: There would probably be a gateway — in fact there must be one — in the park. A gateway with the guardian of the gate. The guardian of the gate is a new girl who has come from Africa, who wrote me a letter telling me that she wanted to be the guardian of Auroville in order to let only the “servants of Truth” enter (). It is a very nice plan.  So I shall probably put her there as guardian of the park, with a small house on the road at the entrance.


The Mother: But the interesting thing is that around this central point, there are four big sections, like four big petals (), but the corners of the petals are rounded and there are small intermediate zones — four big sections and four zones.... Naturally that is only in the air; on the ground, it will be an approximation.  We have four big sections: the cultural section, to the North, that is to say, towards Madras; to the East, the industrial section; to the South, the international section; and to the West, that is to say, towards the lake, the residential section.  To make myself clear: the residential section, where there will be the houses of the people who have already subscribed and of all the others who are coming in large numbers to have a plot in Auroville. That will be next to the lake.


The Mother: The international section: we have already approached a certain number of ambassadors and countries for each one to have its pavilion — a pavilion from every country. It was an old idea. Some have already accepted, so it is on the way.


The Mother: Each pavilion has its own garden with, as far as possible, a representation of the plants and products of the country which it represents. If they have enough money and enough space, they can also have a sort of small museum or permanent exhibition of the country’s achievements. The buildings should be constructed according to the architecture of each country — it should be like a document of information. Then, depending on the money they wish to spend, they could also have accommodation for students, conference-rooms, etc., a cuisine of the country, a restaurant of the country — they could have all kinds of developments.  Then the industrial section.


The Mother: Already many people, including the Government of Madras — the Madras Government is loaning money — want to start industries, which will be on a special basis. This industrial section is to the East and it is very big, there is plenty of space; it will go down towards the sea. In fact, to the North of Pondicherry there is quite a large area which is totally uninhabited and uncultivated; it is by the sea, going up the coast towards the North. So this industrial section would go down towards the sea, and if possible there would be a kind of wharf — not exactly a port but a place where boats could come alongside; and all these industries, with the inland transportation they need, would have a possibility to export directly. And there, there would be a big hotel — B has already made a plan for it; we wanted to build the hotel here, on the site of the “Messageries Maritimes”, but after having said yes, the owner said no; it is very good, it will be better over there — a big hotel to receive visitors from outside.


The Mother: Already quite a number of industries have registered for this section; I do not know if there will be enough room, but we shall manage.  Then, to the North — that is where there is the most space, of course — towards Madras, the cultural section. There, an auditorium — the auditorium which I have dreamt of building for a long time; plans had already been made — an auditorium  with a concert-hall and a grand organ, the best of its kind today. It seems they are making wonderful things. I want a grand organ.


The Mother: There will also be a stage with wings — a rotating stage, etc., the best of its kind. So, a magniﬁcent auditorium, there.  There will be a library, there will be a museum with all sorts of exhibitions — not inside the auditorium: in addition to it there will be a ﬁlm-studio, a ﬁlm-school; there will be a gliding club.  Already we almost have authorisation from the Government, and the promise, so it is already well on the way. Then towards Madras, where there is plenty of space, a stadium.


The Mother: We want this stadium to be the most modern and the most perfect possible, with the idea — it is an idea I have had for a long time — that twelve years — the Olympic Games take place every four years — twelve years from 1968 — in ’68 the Olympiads are taking place in Mexico — twelve years later we would hold the Olympic Games in India, there. So we need space.   Between these sections, there are intermediate zones, four intermediate zones: one for public services, post ofﬁce, etc.; one zone for transport, railway station and possibly an aerodrome; one zone for food — that one would be near the lake and would include dairies, poultry farms, orchards, cultivated lands, etc.; it would spread and include the Lake Estate: what they wanted to do separately would be within the framework of Auroville.  Then a fourth zone.


The Mother: I have said: public services, transport, food, and the fourth zone: shops. We do not need many shops, but a few are necessary in order to obtain what we do not produce.  They are like districts, you see.  A hopes so (). I did not say no, I did not say yes; I told her, “The Lord will decide.”


The Mother: It depends on my state of health. A removal, no — I am here because of the Samadhi, I shall stay here, that is quite sure. But I can go there on a visit; it is not so far, it takes ﬁve minutes by car. But A wants to be quiet,  silent, aloof, and that is quite possible in her park, surrounded by a road, with someone to stop people from coming in; one can stay very quiet — but if I am there, that is the end of it! There would be collective meditations, etc.


The Mother: That is to say that if I get a sign, ﬁrst the physical sign, then the inner command to go out, I shall drive there and spend an hour, in the afternoon — I can do that now and then. We still have time because, before everything is ready, it will take years.   Ah! The Ashram stays here — the Ashram stays here, I stay here, that is understood.


The Mother: Auroville is...  Yes, it is the contact with the outside world. The centre on my drawing is a symbolic centre.  But that is what A expects: she wants a house where she would be all alone next to a house where I would be all alone.  The second part is a dream, because myself all alone....


The Mother: You only have to see what is happening! It is true, isn’t it? So it does not go with the “all alone”. Solitude must be found within, it is the only way. But as far as living is concerned, I shall certainly not go and live there, because the Samadhi is here; but I could go there to visit.


The Mother: For example, I could go there for an inauguration or for certain ceremonies. We shall see. It will be years from now.   Oh yes!


The Mother: It is a town! Consequently, it is the whole contact with outside. An attempt to realise on earth a more ideal life.  In the old formation which I had made, there had to be a hill and a river. There had to be a hill, because Sri Aurobindo’s  house was on top of the hill.


The Mother: But Sri Aurobindo was there at the centre. It was arranged according to the plan of my symbol, that is to say, a point in the middle, with Sri Aurobindo and all that concerned Sri Aurobindo’s life, and four big petals — which were not the same as on this drawing, it was something else — and twelve all around, the town itself; and around that, there were the residences of the disciples; you know my symbol: instead of lines, there are bands; well, the last circular band formed the area for the disciples’ residences, and each one had his own house and garden — a small house and a garden for each one. There was some means of transport, I wasn’t sure if it was individual transport or collective transport — like those small open tramcars in the mountains, you know — going in all directions to take the disciples back towards the centre of the town. And around all that, there was a wall, with a gateway and guardians at the gate, and one could not enter without authorisation. There was no money — within the walls, no money; at the various entrances, there were banks or counters of some sort, where people could deposit their money and receive tickets in exchange, with which they could obtain lodging, food, this, that.


The Mother: But no money — the tickets were only for visitors, who could not enter without a permit. It was a tremendous organisation.... No money, I did not want any money.   Look!


The Mother: In my plan I forgot one thing. I wanted to build a housing estate for workers, but the housing estate was to be part of the industrial section, perhaps an extension along the edge of the industrial section.  Outside the walls, in my ﬁrst formation, on one side there was an industrial town, and on the other, ﬁelds, farms, etc., to supply the town. But that represented a real country — not a big country, but a country. Now it is much reduced.


The Mother: It is no longer my symbol; there are only four zones and there are no walls.  And there will be money. You see, the other formation was truly an ideal endeavour.... But I counted on many years before trying to start. At that time I thought twenty-four years.


The Mother: But now it is  much more modest, it is a transitional attempt, and it is much more realisable. The other plan was... I almost had the land; it was in the time of Sir Akbar, you remember, from Hyderabad.   They sent me some photographs of the State of Hyderabad and


The Mother: there, in those photographs, I found my ideal spot: an isolated hill, quite a big hill, and below it, a large, ﬂowing river. I told him, “I want this place”, and he arranged the matter. Everything was arranged. They sent me the plans, the papers and everything, saying that they were giving it to the Ashram. But they laid down one condition — it was virgin forest, uncultivated land — the place was given on condition, naturally, that we would cultivate it — but the products must be utilised on the spot; for example, the crops, the wood, must be utilised on the spot, not transported; nothing could leave the State of Hyderabad.


The Mother: There was even C, who was a navigator, who said that he would obtain a sailing boat from England to go up the river to fetch the products and bring them to us here. Everything was very well planned! Then they set this condition. I asked if it was not possible to have it removed; then Sir Akbar died and that was the end of it, the matter was dropped. Afterwards, I was glad that it was not done because, now that Sri Aurobindo has departed, I cannot leave Pondicherry.


The Mother: I could only leave Pondicherry with him provided that he accepted to live in his ideal town. At that time, I had spoken of this project to D, the person who built Golconde; and he was enthusiastic, he told me, “As soon as you start to build, call me, I shall come.” I had shown him my plan; it was based on an enlargement of my symbol; he was most enthusiastic, he thought it was magniﬁcent.  It was dropped. But the other one, which is just a small intermediate attempt, we can try.


The Mother: I have no illusions that it will keep its original purity, but we shall try something.   For the time being, E is taking care of that, because he receives the money through the Sri Aurobindo Society and he bought the land. A fair amount of land has already been bought. It is going well. Naturally, the difﬁculty is to ﬁnd enough money.


The Mother: But, for example, the pavilions — each country will bear the expenses for its own pavilion; the industries — each industry will provide the money for its own business; the residents — each one will give the money necessary for his land. The Government — Madras has already given us the promise — will give between sixty and eighty per cent: one part grant, that is to say, gift; one part loan, free of interest and repayable over ten years, twenty years, forty years — a long-term repayment.  E knows all about it, he has already had quite a few results. But according to whether the money comes in quickly or comes in little by little, it will go more or less quickly. From the construction point of view, it will depend on B’s plasticity; the details are all the same to me — only I would like this pavilion to be very beautiful.


The Mother: I can see it. For I have seen it, I have had the vision of it; so I shall try to make him understand what I have seen. And the park too, I have seen it — these are old visions which I had repeatedly. But that is not difﬁcult.  The greatest difﬁculty is the water, because there is no river nearby, up there.


The Mother: But they are already trying to channel the rivers; there was even a project to channel water from the Himalayas across the whole of India: F had made a plan and had spoken about it in Delhi; they objected that it would be rather expensive, obviously! But, anyway, even without such grandiose things, something must be done to supply the water. That will be the greatest difﬁculty; that will take the most time. All the rest, light, power, will be done on the spot in the industrial section — but water cannot be made! The Americans have seriously thought of ﬁnding a way to use sea-water, because the earth no longer has enough drinking water for man — the water which they call “fresh”: it is ironical; the amount of water is not enough for the  needs of man, so they have already started chemical experiments on a large scale to transform sea-water and make it utilisable — obviously, that would be the solution to the problem.


The Mother: It exists, but not on a sufﬁciently large scale.  Do they do that in Israel? Do they use sea-water? Obviously, that would be the solution — the sea is there.  We shall see.


The Mother: It would have to be brought up.   Ah! Certainly, with the industrial section.  It will not be a “port” but, well...


The Mother: Yes, the visitors’ hotel with a yachting club nearby, that is an idea. I shall add that. ( .)  Now look! A shower of letters, my child!


The Mother: From everywhere, from all over the world, people are writing to me: “At last! This is the project I was waiting for”, etc. A shower.  There is also a gliding club. We have already been promised an instructor and a glider. It is a promise.


The Mother: It will be in the industrial section, on top of the hill. Of course, the yacht club will be on the sea, not on the lake; but I had thought — because there is much talk of deepening the lake, it is almost ﬁlled up — I was thinking of a hydroplane station, there.   Not if there are hydroplanes. It is not big enough for boating.  But it would be very good for a hydroplane station.


The Mother: But that depends: if we have an airport, it is unnecessary; if we do not have an airport.... But already, in the Lake Estate project, there was an airport. G, who has become a squadron leader, has sent me a plan for an airport too, but for small planes, whereas we want an airport which can handle a regular service to Madras, a passenger airport. There has already been much talk about it.  There were discussions between Air India and another company


The Mother: ; then they could not come to an agreement — all sorts of petty, foolish difﬁculties. But all that, with the growth of Auroville, will fall away quite naturally — people will be only too glad to have an airport.  No, there are two difﬁculties. Small sums of money we have — to be precise: what the Government can loan, what people give to have a plot — it is coming. But it takes massive sums, you know, it takes billions to build a town!


The Mother:   Begging is not permitted in Auroville. Persons found begging on the road will be distributed as follows: children to school, the old to a home, the sick to the hospital, the healthy to work.  A school, a home, a hospital and special work areas will be arranged for this.


The Mother: They will not be mixed with the others, because some people may come from outside and begin to beg in the street.  There are no police. We have... we haven’t found the word... a band of guards, a battalion of guards, something like the ﬁremen in Japan, who are gymnasts and who do everything when there are accidents — anything, earthquakes — they do everything.


The Mother: They climb up into houses. Instead of police, there  will be a kind of battalion of guards, who will go out regularly into the various parts of the town to see if they are needed. And if they come across people begging, they will be distributed as I said. There will be a school for the children, a home for the old, a hospital for the sick and disabled, and a place where work will be provided for all those who... There will be every possible kind of work, from sweeping to... anything, and work that is needed, they will do it, according to their abilities.


The Mother: This has to be organised.  A special school for the children to teach them to work, to teach them the things that are indispensable for them to be able to work.  No prison, no police.§


The Mother: I thought I had said more than that because I said a good deal about it, inwardly — on the organisation, the food, etc. We are going to make experiments.  Some things are really interesting; ﬁrst of all, for example, I would like each country to have its pavilion, and in the pavilion there will be the cooking of that country — that is, the Japanese will be able to eat Japanese food if they want to, etc. But in the town itself there will be food for both vegetarians and nonvegetarians, and there will also be some attempt to ﬁnd the food of tomorrow.  The whole process of assimilation which makes you so heavy — it takes so much of a person’s time and energy — that should be done, you should be given something which is immediately assimilable, like the things they are making now; for example they have vitamin pills and proteins which can be assimilated directly, nutritious elements which are found in one thing or another and which don’t have much volume — a huge quantity is needed to assimilate very little.


The Mother: Now that they are skilful enough in chemistry, it could be simpliﬁed.  People do not like this simply because they take an intense pleasure in eating; but when you no longer take pleasure in eating, you still need nourishment without wasting your time on it. An enormous amount of time is wasted — time in eating, in digesting, and all the rest. And there, I would like an experimental kitchen, a kind of culinary laboratory for experimenting.  People would go to one place or another according to their tastes and inclinations.


The Mother: And they don’t pay for their food, but they should offer their work or their produce: those who have ﬁelds, for example, should give the produce from their ﬁelds; those who have factories should give their products; or one gives one’s labour in exchange for food.   That in itself eliminates much of the internal exchange of money. And for everything we would ﬁnd things like this. Basically, it should be a city for study, for study and research into a way of life which is both simpliﬁed and in which the higher qualities will have to develop.  It is only a small beginning.


The Mother: I want to insist on the fact that it will be an experiment, it is for making experiments — experiments, research, study. Auroville will be a city that will try to be, or will tend to become, or attempt to be “self-supporting”, that is to say...  “Autonomous” is understood to mean some kind of independence which breaks off relations with others, and that is not what I mean.  For example, those who produce food, like Aurofood — of course, when we are 50,000 it will be difﬁcult to provide for all the needs, but for the moment we are only a few thousand at most — well, a factory always produces far too much, so it will sell outside and receive money. Aurofood for example wants to have a special relationship with the workers — not at all the old system, something which would be an improvement on the communist system, a more balanced organisation than sovietism, that is, something which does not err too much on one side at the expense of the other.


The Mother: There is one thing I wanted to say: the participation in the well-being and life of the town as a whole is not something calculated on an individual basis; that is, this individual should give so much, it is not like that. It is calculated according to  the means, the activity, the capacity for production; it is not the democratic idea which cuts everything up into equal pieces, which is an absurd machinery. It is calculated according to one’s means: one who has much gives much, one who has little gives little; one who is strong works hard, one who is not strong does something else. You see, it is something truer, deeper. That is why I make no attempt to explain now, because people will start to make all kinds of complaints.


The Mother: All this must come about automatically, so to speak, with the growth of the city, in the true spirit. That is why this note is extremely concise.  For example, this sentence: All who live there will participate in its life and development according to their capacities and means, not mechanically — so much per unit. That’s it, it must be something living and true, not a mechanical thing; and according to each one’s capacities: that is, one who has material means, such as those provided by a factory, should give in proportion to its production, not so much per individual, per head.  I do not understand what “passive” means; I said it in French and it has been put into English.


The Mother: What could that mean, “passive”?... It would be something more like planes or different levels of consciousness.  Yes, that’s it. Those who have a higher knowledge do not need to work with their hands, that is what I meant.   So that is clear: there will be no taxes, but each one will have to contribute to the collective welfare by his work, in kind or in money.


The Mother: Those who have nothing but money will give money. But to tell the truth, “work” can be inner work — but one cannot say that, because people are not honest enough. The work can be an occult, completely inner work; but for that, it must be absolutely sincere and true, and with the capacity for it: no pretension. But not necessarily a physical work.  This is what we were just saying.


The Mother: The industries will participate actively, they will contribute. If these industries produce articles which are not constantly needed and therefore in amounts or quantities that are too great to be used within the city but which will sell outside, they, of course, should participate with money.  And I give food as an example; those who produce food will give what they produce to the town — in proportion to what they produce, of course — and the town is responsible for feeding everyone. That means that people will not need to buy food with money; but it must be earned.  It is a sort of adaptation of the communist system, but not in a spirit of levelling; according to the capacity, the position — not the psychological or intellectual, but the inner position of each one.


The Mother: What is true is that materially every human being has the right — but it is not a “right”.... The organisation should be  such, should be so arranged, that the material needs of everyone are assured, not according to ideas of rights and equality, but on the basis of the minimum needs. And once that is established, each one should be free to organise his life according to — not according to his ﬁnancial means, but his inner capacities.  What I mean is that usually — always so far, and now more and more — men lay down mental rules according to their conceptions and ideals, and then they apply them ( ), and that is absolutely false, it is arbitrary, unreal — and the result is that things revolt or wither and disappear.... It is the experience of life itself that should slowly elaborate rules which are as ﬂexible and wide as possible, to be always progressive.


The Mother: Nothing should be ﬁxed.  That is the great error of governments; they make a framework and say, “There you are, we have set this up and now we must live by it”, and so of course they crush life and prevent it from progressing. Life itself must develop more and more in a progression towards Light, Knowledge, Power, little by little establishing rules that are as general as possible, so that they can be extremely ﬂexible and change with the need — and change as quickly as the needs and habits do.  ( )


The Mother: The problem ﬁnally comes down to this: to replace the mental government of the intelligence by the government of a spiritualised consciousness.    One must have an absolutely transparent sincerity. Lack of sincerity is the cause of the difﬁculties we meet at present. Insincerity is in all men. There are perhaps a hundred men on earth who are totally sincere.


The Mother: Man’s very nature makes him insincere — it is very complicated, for he is constantly deceiving himself, hiding the truth from himself, making excuses for himself. Yoga is the way to become sincere in all parts of the being.  It is difﬁcult to be sincere, but at least one can be mentally sincere; this is what can be demanded of Aurovilians. The force is there, present as never before; man’s insincerity prevents it from descending, from being felt. The world lives in falsehood, all relations between men have until now been based on falsehood and deceit.


The Mother: Diplomatic relations between nations are based on falsehood. They claim to want peace, and meanwhile they are arming themselves. Only a transparent sincerity in man and among nations can usher in a transformed world.  Auroville is the ﬁrst attempt in this experiment. A new world will be born; if men are willing to make an effort for transformation, to seek for sincerity, it is possible.


The Mother: From animal to man, thousands of years were needed; today, with his mind, man can will and hasten a transformation towards a man who shall be God.  This transformation by the help of the mind — by selfanalysis — is a ﬁrst step; afterwards, it is necessary to transform the vital impulses: that is much more difﬁcult, and especially to transform the physical. Every cell in our bodies must become conscious. This is the work I am doing here; it will enable the conquest of death. That is another story; that will be the humanity of the future, perhaps after hundreds of years, perhaps sooner.


The Mother: It will depend on men, on nations.  Auroville is the ﬁrst step towards this goal.§     This is the big dispute at the moment about Auroville. In the Charter, I put “Divine Consciousness”, so they say, “It reminds us of God.”


The Mother: I said (), “It doesn’t remind of God!”   So some translate it as “the highest consciousness”, others put something else. I agreed with the Russians to put “perfect Consciousness”, but it is an approximation.... And That — which cannot be named and cannot be deﬁned — is the supreme Power.


The Mother: It is the Power that one ﬁnds. And the supreme Power is only an aspect: the aspect that concerns creation.§    The conﬂict about money is what might be called a “conﬂict of ownership”, but the truth is that money belongs to no one.  This idea of money has warped everything.


The Mother: Money should not be a “possession”: like power it is a means of action which is given to you, but you must use it according to... what we can call the “will of the Giver”, that is, in an impersonal and enlightened way. If you are a good instrument for diffusing and utilising money, then it comes to you, and it comes to you in proportion to your capacity to use it as it is meant to be used.   That is the true mechanism.  The true attitude is this: money is a force intended for the work on earth, the work required to prepare the earth to receive and manifest the divine forces, and it — that is, the power of  utilising it — must come into the hands of those who have the clearest, most comprehensive and truest vision.


The Mother: To start with, the ﬁrst thing (but this is elementary) is not to have the sense of possession — what does it mean, “it is mine”?... Now, I don’t quite understand. Why do people want it to belong to them? — so that they can use it as they like and do what they want with it and handle it according to their own conceptions? That’s how it is. On the other hand, yes, there are people who like to store it up somewhere... but that is a disease.