23 April 1966 AM VII-95-96 (Mother hands the disciple a brochure on Auroville) The photos are very pretty. There is one which is just like a nebula. Practically speaking, is it moving? It seems to be going very well. A very wide collective response, and from two opposite sides: the whole communist side is stirring, and the whole American financial side is stirring. There is an effervescence. It's certain to work, I KNOW that it exists - the city is already there (for many, many years). What is interesting is that I had made a creation with Sri Aurobindo at the centre, then when Sri Aurobindo left, I dropped the whole idea, I didn't budge any mo

THE EDITORS' NOTES This book is part of a larger research attempt to make available whatever Mother has said and written concerning Auroville. The editors wish simply to present the material itself, clearly and accurately. We hope this book contributes to our discovery of the spirit in which to build an Auroville "that will live the truth of tomorrow". TYPE The words of Mother appear in Roman type. All italicized texts come from other sources. INTRODUCTIONS Introductions to texts are normally from Mother's Agenda and appear in parentheses. In a few places there are introductions by the editors enclosed in brackets []. TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS

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18 July 1961 MA 11-269-270 ... This state of consciousness* probably has to become constant, but that would pose a problem: how could one then keep in contact with the world as it is in its deformation? Because I have noticed that when this state is very strong in me, very strong, so strong that it can withstand everything bombarding it from outside, people don't understand a thing I say, NOTHING! Therefore, it would seem to cut off a useful contact What would it be like, for instance, to have a small supra-mental creation as a nucleus of action and influence radiating upon earth (to limit it to the earth)? Is it possible? It's easy to conceive of a superhuman nucleus —

    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 HOME

12 January 1968 AM IX-28 It seems I have given her [the director of education] "full freedom" to organize Auroville. So she's calling it the "university city". She was told that the word was used in a strict sense; she said to me, "Oh, I explained," and on the invitations for the 28th [for the laying of the foundation stone], she wanted to put "the university city"; but we didn't ask her advice, we made the invitations and put, "The city of universal culture". That's always the sign of people who have a purely mental power of construction: they want to force words to express what they want to say. I told her, "It won't do, you can talk all you like, for everyone the

15 February 1967 AM VIII-54 ... It seems the Pope was approached on the subject of Auroville, and he asked if there would be a Catholic church!... They asked me the question. I said, "No, no churches, no temples...." 18 February 1967 AM VIII-58-59 [This passage is part of a longer conversation on the new Consciousness.] Basically, we want... we know we need a language not artificially new but something supple enough to be adapted to the needs of a new Consciousness; and this language will probably emerge like that, through elimination of habits, from a group of older languages. What is particular in languages (beyond some differences in

8 January 1972 MA XIII-24 Now that I am here like this, in seclusion, the lowest nature of everyone comes out. They do things thinking, "Oh, Mother won't know." That's how it is. So this "Mother won't know" means there's, no more restraint. I would say it's rather disgusting. People to whom I have said, "You can't stay in the Ashram" move in anyway. And nobody stops them. Not only that, but they go to the Auroville offices and try to direct things. I tell you... it has become really, really disgusting. Because I am here, because I don't see so clearly any more and my hearing isn't so good - so they take advantage of it. 19 January 1972 MA XIII-41-

29 January 1969 AM X-37-40 The children are better and better!... The NEW children are truly remarkable. Today I saw [name's] child, she's two, I think, but she is like the children of six or seven used to be before. Wide awake, intelligent... . It's curious: What do you have to say? (long silence) I have a vague impression I had something to tell you, but I don't know what.... (Then Mother shows a brochure =1, on education in Auroville.) Actually, it's not bad. I don't know if it's wrong, but no problem interests me any more. I don't ask any questions at all any more. The speculative mind no longer interests me.

3 January 1970 AM XI-13-23 Sweet Mother, I have told [an Italian disciple, a designer] to come, he is waiting outside. Yes. There is an interesting thing. For a long time I had been feeling something, then we spoke about it the other day and I SAW it.. . I spoke of it to [the architect), I told him to see [the designer] , and I also told him that I had SEEN what had to be done. Of course he did not say no, he said yes to everything, but I felt that he did not really intend.. . but this is what happened. I saw clearly - very, very distinctly - that is to say, it was like that and it IS still like that, it is there (gesture indicating an eternal pla