No Politics We are not here to do politics but to serve the Divine. Sri Aurobindo thinks that it is not possible for us to intervene by a wire in a political matter of this kind. At most you might write to X your private opinion about the best course for him to take in these painful and difficult circumstances. With love and blessings. 24 February 1939 * I have received X's letter. You can write to him: “It is absolutely out of the question for anyone connected with the Ashram to intervene in politics of any kind.” He must not go to Y (it would be useless in any case). If he went and Y spoke to us of it, we would be obliged to disavow his action as not sanction

Community Affairs GENERAL Auromodele 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. 12 February 1963 * Mother, May I write in answer to X's letter that any copy for a brochure or pamphlet written either in America or at the Ashram regarding the American Pavilion [to be built in Auroville] must first be approved by you? Nothing on any Auroville project can be published without my approval. Blessings. 22 March 1966  * Dear Mother, Our vegetable c

Matrimandir 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. 14 August 1970 * 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. 15 November 1970 * For the construction of the Matrimandir, will only Aurovilians do the work or will there also be hired workers and other people of goodwill? It is preferable that the work be or

General What is the Divine? The Divine is what you adore in Sri Aurobindo. 28 March 1932 How beautiful is the day when one can offer one's devotion to Sri Aurobindo. You must feel that Sri Aurobindo is looking at you. It is not a question of disobedience. I know nothing about your additions to the Life Sketch of the sources from which they were taken. My point of view is this, that anything written by a sadhak about Sri Aurobindo which brings him down to an ordinary level and admits the reader to a sort of gossiping familiarity with him is an unfaithfulness to Him and His work. Good intentions are not sufficient; it is necessary that this should be understood

Last Talk 30 March 1972 Since we have set aside all conventions, immediately everybody thinks: “Ah! Nice place to satisfy our desires.” And they nearly all come with that intention. And because I built a maternity clinic for the children of people I was obliged to send away from the Ashram, so that they would have a place to have their children, people think that the maternity clinic is intended for all illegitimate children. I am not concerned about legality, I am not concerned about laws or conventions. But what I do want is a more divine life and not an animal life. And they turn freedom into license, they use it to satisfy their desires. And all the things that

* The Mother and Sri Aurobindo Darshan Day, 24 April 1950

PHYSICAL NEARNESS Whether I see you or not makes no difference to the help. It will always be there. You must remove two falsehoods from your mind. 1) What you get from me has nothing at all to do with what the others have or have not. My relation with you depends on you alone; I give you according to your true need and capacity. Even here, already you were alone with me; if there were no others you would receive nothing more. 2) It is a great mistake to think that physical nearness is the one thing indispensable for the progress. It will do nothing for you if you do not establish the inner contact, for without that you could remain from morning to night with

Comfort and Happiness Each one carries his capacity of happiness in himself but I am convinced that those who cannot be happy here can be happy nowhere. 14 April 1936 * People must be happy when they are here, otherwise they cannot have the full advantage of the exceptional opportunity. I am always happy to receive and to help those who wish for harmony and conciliation, and are ready to correct their mistakes and to progress. But I can be of no help to those who throw all the blame on the others for they are inapt to see the truth and to act accordingly. But it goes without saying that those who are here and are ready to face some difficulties in ord

Matrimandir Talks             31 December 1969 That was the first idea: there was the Centre and the town was organised around it. Now they are doing the very opposite! They want to build the town and put the Centre in afterwards. And the “thing” is ready to come! I have known it for a long time, it is there (gesture upward), it is waiting. (Silence) A's idea is an island at the centre, with water around it, running water, which will provide the whole water supply for the city; and when it has passed through the city, it will be sent to a pump-house, and from there it will go out to irrigate all the surrounding cultivated lands. So this Centre is lik

Work and Teaching Sri Aurobindo's work is a unique earth-transformation. Sri Aurobindo incarnated in a human body the supramental consciousness and has not only revealed to us the nature of the path to follow and the method of following it so as to arrive at the goal, but has also by his own personal realisation given us the example; he has provided us with the proof that the thing can be done and the time is now to do it. Never for an instant vacillate in the belief that the mighty work of change taken up by Sri Aurobindo is going to culminate in success. For that indeed is a fact: there is not a shadow of doubt as to the issue of the work we have in hand... The