Money 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 possessing money has warped everything. 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 wo

Life-aspects (To find the necessary funds for Auroville one could proceed in the following manner: Find in every country a very wealthy person who would be the centre for collecting funds for Auroville. Advantages: Such a person would carry weight, would be an example for the others and would never give the impression of begging.) In principle this way is alright. 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. Nov , 1965 * Begging is not permitte

The Aspiration Talks (From March to July 1970, the Mother met a group of people from Aspiration each week. Some of the meetings were a bath of silence', in others she would answer questions. The Mother wanted to revise the texts of these talks before publication, but this did not happen. Here are some extracts edited by the compiler.) We would like to speak to you about work in Aspiration. What we would like to know, what we are looking for is the right attitude.... What is the trouble? The trouble is.... Each one pulls in his own direction. Each one pulls in his own direction. No one is really in contact with what is true.... We should t

TO BE A TRUE AUROVILIAN Conditions for Living in Auroville 1.The first thing needed is the inner discovery, to find out what one truly is behind social, moral, cultural, racial and hereditary appearances. At the centre there is a being, free and vast and knowing, who awaits our discovery and who should become the active centre of our being and our life in Auroville. 2.One lives in Auroville to be free from moral and social conventions; but this freedom must not be a new enslavement 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 t

THE MOTHER ON   AUROVILLE   Content   Pre-Content   Post-Content     The Vision and The Soul The Soul: The Matrimandir   Conception and Birth A Dream; The Ideal Town; Synthesis of cultures; Divine Initiation; New Consciousness; Auroville Symbol; Auroville Charter.   To Be A True Aurovilian Conditions for Living in Auroville   Some Fundamentals Auroville and Religions; Unity, Harmony, Collaboration; Work and Discipline; Truth and Falsehood; Money; Cleanliness;

Work and Discipline No big creation is possible without discipline— individual discipline group discipline discipline towards the Divine. 16.9.1968* * The important thing is the execution which is to be carried out without ever losing sight of the ideal we want to realise. Dec.1968 * 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. Feb.. 1970 * True spirituality lies in the service of the divine work. To refuse to work for all is only a demonstration of selfishn

New Consciousness The city will be built by what is invisible to you. The men who have to act as instruments will do so despite themselves. They are only puppets in the hands of larger Forces. Nothing depends on human beings—neither the planning nor the execution—nothing! That is why one can laugh. +Sep. 1969 * Q: To what extent does the building of Auroville depend on man's acceptance of spirituality? The opposition between spirituality and material life, the division between the two, has no meaning for me, for in truth life and the spirit are one and it is in and by physical work that the highest spirit must manifest. 19.4.1968 *

A Model of Auroville. Four Main Zones, Residential, Cultural, Industrial and International will be surrounded by a green belt. The geographical location is in India, on the sea-coast, 10 Kilometres from Pondicherry, seat of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. A model of the Matrimandir which is being built at the centre of Auroville.

AUROVILLE IN ELABORATION A Talk in June 1965 Have you heard of Auroville? 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 Huta took it into her head to have a house there, by the lake, and to have a house