Auroville
On Auroville ~ The Mother
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.
8 September 1965
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1. Who has taken the initiative for the construction of
Auroville?
The Mother: The Supreme Lord.
2. Who participates in the financing of Auroville?
The Mother: The Supreme Lord.
3. If one wants to live in Auroville, what does it imply
for oneself?
The Mother: To try to attain the Supreme Perfection.
4. Must one be a student of yoga in order to live in
Auroville?
The Mother: All life is yoga. Therefore one cannot live without practising the
supreme yoga.
5. What will be the Ashram’s role in Auroville?
The Mother: Whatever the Supreme Lord wants it to be.
6. Will there be camping-grounds in Auroville?
The Mother: All things are as they should be, when they should be.
7. Will family life continue in Auroville?
The Mother: If one has not gone beyond that.
8. Can one retain one’s religion in Auroville?
The Mother: If one has not gone beyond that.
9. Can one be an atheist in Auroville?
The Mother: If one has not gone beyond that.
10. Will there be a social life in Auroville?
The Mother: If one has not gone beyond that.
11. Will there be compulsory community activities in
Auroville?
The Mother: Nothing is compulsory.
12. Will money be used in Auroville?
The Mother: No, Auroville will have money relations only with the outside
world.
13. How will work be organised and distributed in
Auroville?
The Mother: “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 commu-
nity as a whole, which, for its own part, would provide for each
individual’s subsistence and sphere of action.”
14. What will be the relations between the inhabitants
of Auroville and the outside world?
The Mother: Each person is allowed full freedom. The external relations of
residents in Auroville will be established for each one according
to his personal aspiration and his activities within Auroville.
15. Who will own the land and buildings of Auroville?
The Mother: The Supreme Lord.
16. What languages will be used for teaching?
The Mother: All the spoken languages of the earth.
17. What will be the means of transport in Auroville?
The Mother: We do not know.
1965
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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.
January 1966
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You say that Auroville is a dream. Yes, it is a “dream” of the
Lord and generally these “dreams” turn out to be true — much
more true than the human so-called realities!
20 May 1966
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Humanity is not the last rung of the terrestrial creation. Evolu-
tion 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.
August 1966
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We would like to make Auroville the cradle of the Superman.
1966
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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.
20 September 1966
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Auroville is an attempt towards world peace, friendship, frater-
nity, unity.
20 September 1966
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As long as you are for some and against others, you are neces-
sarily outside the Truth.
You should constantly keep good will and love in your heart
and let them pour out on all with tranquillity and equality.
16 December 1966
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Auroville: At last a place where one will be able to think only of
the future.
January 1967
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(Message to be carved in stone and placed in or beside a
lotus pond at Promesse.)
Auroville is the shelter built for all those who want to hasten
towards a future of Knowledge, Peace and Unity.
16 March 1967
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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 material conditions will be worked out as the realisation
proceeds.
19 June 1967
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The aims of Auroville
An effective human unity
Peace upon earth
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Auroville the City
at the service of Truth
28 February 1968
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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.
28 February 1968
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AUROVILLE CHARTER
1) Auroville belongs to nobody in particular. Auroville be-
longs to humanity as a whole.
But to live in Auroville one must be the willing servitor of
the Divine Consciousness.
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.
28 February 1968
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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.
At last a place where nothing will have the right to impose
itself as the exclusive truth.
February 1968
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Q: What is the difference between the Ashram and Auro
ville?
The Mother: The Ashram will retain its true role of pioneer, inspirer and
guide.
Auroville is the attempt towards collective realisation.
June 1968
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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.
June 1968
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(Message for the recipients of the essential material items
distributed by Auroville Prosperity)
Auroville is meant not for the satisfaction of desires but for the
growth of the true consciousness.
16 June 1968
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Any sincere attempt to bring peace and unity among men is
welcome in Auroville.
20 July 1968
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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.
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.
5 August 1968
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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.
Unselfishness is the first need to participate in the creation
of Auroville.
5 November 1968
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Q: Divine Mother,
How dependent is the building of Auroville upon
man’s acceptance of spirituality?
The Mother: The opposition between spirituality and material life, the divi-
sion 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.
19 April 1968
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Q: Divine Mother,
Is there any reason why in Auroville we should
have to compromise with the truth out of a feeling of
expediency or material gain?
The Mother: The very fact of living and acting is a compromise because the
world is not yet living under the law of Truth.
7 June 1968
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Auroville
No big creation is possible without discipline —
individual discipline,
group discipline,
discipline towards the Divine.
16 September 1968
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(About the organisation of work)
The important thing is the execution which is to be carried out
without ever losing sight of the ideal we want to realise.
December 1968
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Q: Sweet Mother,
There will be a general meeting tomorrow to try and
see whether it is possible for all of us to agree on a course
of action.
Nobody speaks the same language; all the individ-
uals are very different and do not submit to a common
discipline of action. I would like to receive some clear
written answers from you so as to know what to say —
something which would be the Truth and could help to
dispel the confusion.
Does the construction of Auroville require a work-
ing-method, organisation and coordination?
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.
Q: What should be the nature of this organisation, in the
present and in the future?
The Mother: 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.
Q: Until this group consciousness appears, and until we can
work collectively in the true and right way, what should
we do?
The Mother: A hierarchical organisation grouped around the most enlight-
ened centre and submitting to a collective discipline.
Q: Must we use organisational methods which have proved
effective but which are based on human logic and the
use of machines?
The Mother: This is a makeshift which we should submit to only very provi-
sionally.
Q: Must one allow individual initiative to manifest freely
and inspiration and intuition to be the moving force
behind personal action, and should one reject all ideas
not felt as good by the interested party?
The Mother: In order to be workable, this requires all workers of Auroville
to be yogis conscious of the Divine Truth.
Q: Has the time come to wish for, to set up, to try for a
general organisation, or should one wait for the right
attitude and men?
The Mother: An organisation is needed for the work to be done — but the
organisation itself must be flexible and progressive.
If to wait is the solution, is it nevertheless necessary to
define organisational priniciples and to avoid uncontrol-
lable disorder?
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.§
6 February 1969
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Auroville
The city the earth
needs.
22 February 1969
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(Message for the first anniversary of Auroville)
Let Light, peace and joy be with all those who live in Auroville
and work for its realisation.
Blessings.
28 February 1969
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(Message for the first anniversary of Auroville)
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.
28 February 1969
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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.
1969
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Q: Is it the Divine Will that Auroville should be born, or else
does the Divine look upon the attempt to build Auroville
as an experiment?
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 con-
sciousness intervenes.
17 April 1969
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Q: How can people having different values live and work
together in harmony?
The Mother: The solution is to go deep within oneself and find the place
where all the differences combine to constitute the essential and
eternal Unity.
4 May 1969
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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 misunderstand-
ing.
For these causes are always on both sides and before de-
manding anything from others, each one should first strive to
eliminate them from himself.
4 July 1969
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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.
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Quarrels are altogether contrary to the spirit of Auroville.
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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.
20 September 1969
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Auroville is the ideal place for those who want to know the joy
and liberation of no longer having any personal possessions.
18 September 1969
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Peace through human unity:
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.
October 1969
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Q: Will a day come when there will be no more poor people
and no more suffering in the world?
The Mother: 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.
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.
8 November 1969
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Q: How can you believe that in Auroville there will be no
more suffering so long as the people who come to live
there are men from the same world, born with the same
weaknesses and faults?
The Mother: 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.
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.
9 November 1969
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Q: What is the fundamental difference between the ideal of
the Ashram and the ideal of Auroville?
The Mother: 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 conse-
crated 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).
Whereas in Auroville simply the good will to make a collec-
tive experiment for the progress of humanity is sufficient to gain
admittance.
10 November 1969
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(Written for a UNESCO committee)
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 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.3
1969
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Q: I have always considered the Ashram and Auroville to
be parts of an integral whole. I cannot see them as dif-
ferent entities. How then was a difference made by you,
Mother? Or is it that I am wrong somewhere? To me
it seems that there is a great need for a move towards
integration in our outlook.
The Mother: 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 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.
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Auroville aspires for union.
1970
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To all those who want to live for the future:
A physical work is as indispensable to the balance of the
body as food.
To eat without working causes a serious imbalance.
February 1970
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You must all agree.
That is the only way to do good work.
2 April 1970
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For everyone to agree each one must rise to the summit of his
consciousness; it is on the heights that harmony is created.
April 1970
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Auroville and the Religions
We want the Truth.
For most men, it is what they want that they label truth.
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.
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 histor-
ical 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
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.
2 May 1970
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Q: The notion of religion is most often linked to the search
for God. Should religion be understood in this context
only? As a matter of fact, are there not nowadays other
forms of religion?
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.
13 May 1970
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At Auroville nothing belongs to anyone in particular. All is col-
lective property. To be utilised with my blessings for the welfare
of all.
14 May 1970
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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.
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 dis-
covery which can only be achieved in the peace and transparency
of perfect disinterestedness.
3. The Aurovilian should lose the sense of personal posses-
sion. For our passage in the material world, what is indispens-
able 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. 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 conscious-
ness, 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.
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.
13 June 1970
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Q: In Auroville “all is collective property.” Does this mean
that everything can be used by everyone? Or should
things be given only to those who treat them well?
I have also noticed that delicate pieces of equipment
become attached to one person and do not work well if
they are lent to others.
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. Each one must
do his best to achieve that.
15 July 1970
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(Some temporary visitors claimed the right to intervene
in the organisation of Auroville. In this regard Mother
wrote:)
To the inhabitants of Auroville
Only those who have resolved to stay in Auroville for good have
the right to intervene in its organisation.
22 January 1971
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All that I have to say for Auroville henceforth shall be put in
writing and signed by me.
15 February 1971
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Q: “Should Auroville have any more new committees?” The
Mother does not agree to any new committees for Au-
roville. She says: “More committees, more useless talk.”
The Mother: Blessings.
17 February 1971
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Q: Several among us have passed or are passing through a
period of mental disequilibrium and incoherence. What
attitude should we take towards those who are in this
state? What should we do and not do to avoid passing
through these crises?
The Mother: Calm, peace, tranquillity always, and always to speak as lit-
tle as possible and to act only when it is necessary. To avoid
unconsciousness as much as possible.
17 February 1971
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True spirituality lies in the service of the divine work.
To refuse to work for all is only a demonstration of selfish-
ness, 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.
24 February 1971
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(Message for the third anniversary of Auroville)
To all Aurovilians
My blessings for the progress and the growth of the collective
and individual consciousness.
28 February 1971
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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 limita-
tions.
February 1971
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Auroville is not a work of charity. A night spent in Aspiration is
equivalent to a day’s work.
February 1971
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One does not live in Auroville to be comfortable but to grow in
consciousness and to serve the Divine.
1 March 1971
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Is it to satisfy little personal needs that you have come to Au-
roville?
That was really not necessary. 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.
3 March 1971
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To work for Auroville is to hasten the advent of a more harmo-
nious Future.
27 March 1971
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In our smallest action we can serve the Divine if we have the
right attitude.
15 April 1971
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It is in work done as an offering to the Divine that the conscious-
ness develops best.
Indolence and inaction result in tamas 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.
27 April 1971
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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.
6 May 1971
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SYMBOL OF AUROVILLE
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.§
16 August 1971
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Each thing in its place and there will be a place for everything.
26 August 1971
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To say “it is impossible to include this thing”, simply means that
its true place has not been found.
26 August 1971
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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.
27 August 1971
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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.
Enlarge your consciousness and aspire for the satisfaction
of all.
28 August 1971
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Auroville must not lie. Everyone who aspires to be an Aurovilian
must make the resolution never to tell a lie.
28 August 1971
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You see only your side 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.
17 September 1971
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Widen your consciousness to the dimension of the earth and you
will have a place for everything.
20 September 1971
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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?
23 October 1971
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Q: For those in Auroville who want to be true servitors, is
Sunday a holiday?
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 reali-
sation; all insincerity is a degradation.
25 October 1971
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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 comprehen-
sive 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?
Blessings.
14 November 1971
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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.
1971
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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.
January 1972
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MESSAGE FOR UNESCO
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.
1 February 1972
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Many in Auroville say that an organised working is not
desirable in Auroville; they are for spontaneous working.
Spontaneous work can be done only by a man of genius.
Is there anyone claiming to be a genius?...
Blessings.
3 July 1972
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To follow all the impulses of the lower nature is surely not the
supramental way and has no place here.
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.
10 July 1972
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So long as we go on telling lies, we go on pushing the happy
Future far from us.
13 July 1972
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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.
2 October 1972
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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.
22 October 1972
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The true spirit of Auroville is collaboration and must be more
and more so.
True collaboration paves the way to divinity.
22 October 1972
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(Three possible forms of greeting for those Aurovilians
who wish to use them)
Au service de la Verit ´ e´
At the service of Truth
Truth
30 October 1972
*
Harmony
Good will
Discipline
Truth
I can work with you only if you do not say a lie and are at the
service of Truth.
31 October 1972
*
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?
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.
26 November 1972
*
Auroville has been created for a progressive superhumanity, not
for an infra-humanity governed by its instincts and dominated by
its desires. 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.
1 December 1972
*
(About a cyclone on the night of 5 December 1972)
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.
7 December 1972
*
Everybody has to progress and become more sincere.
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.
12 December 1972
*
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.
18 December 1972
*
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.
If you wish to remain in Auroville you must stop lying.
19 December 1972
*
To be a true Aurovilian one must never lie.
28 December 1972
*
Q: Is Auroville the only solution to the misery of mankind
and the disorders of society?
The Mother: 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.
As long as egoism and bad will exist in the world, a general
transformation is impossible.
28 December 1972
*
Q: What political organisation do you want for Auroville?
The Mother: 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.
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.
28 December 1972
*
Auroville has been created for those who want to progress, their
own progress.
This is written for each one; each one is concerned with
himself first.
28 December 1972
*
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. Every sincere person knows this.
And above all let them not mistake their ego and their desires
for the Divine. It is because they deceive themselves that they
make this confusion.
They must be conscious of the divine presence in them-
selves, and for that, the ego must be silenced and desires must
disappear.
28 December 1972
*
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.
1972
*
There is only one solution for falsehood: it is to cure in ourselves
all that contradicts in our consciousness the presence of the
Divine.
31 December 1972
*
It is not what you do but the spirit in which you do it that makes
Karmayoga.
5 February 1973
*
Auroville is not a place for politics; no politics must be done in
Auroville and in the offices of Auroville.
15 February 1973
*
Auroville will become what it must be:
Only if and when the people living there will stop lying.
18 March 1973
*
When you say “I want to serve the Divine”, do you believe the
All-Knowing does not know that it is a lie?
18 March 1973
*
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.
To live in Auroville means to do the Yoga of work. So all
Aurovilians must take up a work and do it as Yoga.
27 March 1973
(Ref. CWM 13 : 188-222)
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