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

27 January 1971 MA XII-37 ... Well, do you have the next chapter? Yes, Mother. I've called it "The Sociology of the Superman". It's Auroville without naming it. Ah!.. But a very ideal Auroville! Yes! (laughing) Far from what it is. (The disciple reads a few pages of the chapter) Oh, it's splendid, my child! On the way to conquering the world.... You see, it really has come. I called and called and called, and it has come (gesture of descent). It has come. I am very happy. It's splendid.... I personally have the feeling there is a close and invisible connection between America's aspiration, as it is now, and the

Auroville References in Mother's Agenda Now is the time, it has to be done. 23 April 1966 AM VII-95-96 Auroville References in Mother's Agenda

AUROVILLE REFERENCES IN MOTHER'S AGENDA Contents Pre-Content The Editors Notes 1956 29 February 1956 1960 20 August 1960 1961 18 July 1961 1964 18 January 1964 1965 29 May 1965 23 June 1965 1966 23 April 1966 6 July 1966 23 July 1966 27 July 1966 10 August 1966

29 May 1965 MA VI-101 [From a longer conversation about the Tantric guru who used to visit Mother.] And when [the guru] came, they took him to Auroville, and there, there is a small Ganesh temple that was bought along with the land, on condition that the small temple be respected and people be allowed to come and offer prayers if they want to. They showed him the temple, he was very glad, then they asked him what should be done for the rites - "Oh, Ganesh will look after that, don't worry!" (Mother laughs) He said that very nicely. 23 June 1965 MA VI-139-150 [The Mother spoke about Auroville in detail for the first time.] Have you heard of Aurov

29 February 1956 MA 1-69 [This experience represents a radical step in the evolutionary process making possible such breakthroughs as the creation of Auroville.] This evening the Divine Presence, concrete and material, was there present amongst you. I had a form of living gold, bigger than the universe, and I was facing a huge and massive golden door which separated the world from the Divine. As I looked at the door, I knew and willed, in a single movement of consciousness, that "THE TIME HAS COME", and lifting with both hands a mighty golden hammer I struck one blow, one single blow on the door and the door was shattered to pieces. Then the supramenta