The Mother on Auroville
© Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Pondicherry, India
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T H E V I S I O N A N D T H E S O U L
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.
20.9.1969
Auroville:
At last a place where one will be able to think only of the future.
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 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.
Jan. 1967, Feb. 1968
Auroville wishes to be the cradle of supermen.
Auroville is meant to hasten the advent of the supramental Reality upon earth.
The help of all those who find that 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.
1.2.1972
Auroville is the shelter built for all those who want to hasten towards a future of Knowledge, Peace and Unity.
16.3.1967
Auroville is the ideal place for those who want to know the joy and liberation of no longer having any personal possessions.
20.9.1969
Auroville wants to be a universal township 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.
8.9.1965
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.
20.9.1966
Auroville is an attempt towards world peace, friendship, fraternity, unity.
20.9.1969
The aims of Auroville An effective human unity Peace upon earth
1970
Auroville aspires for union.
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.
Jan. 1972*
AUROVILLE
The city at the service of Truth
The Soul : The Matrimandir 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.
15.11.1970
There is only one Matrimandir, the Matrimandir of Auroville.
The others must have another name.
5.10.1971*
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.
14.8.1970
Let the Matrimandir be the living symbol of Auroville's aspiration for the Divine.
(Laying of the Matrimandir foundation stone) 21.2.1971*
The fraternity of collaboration.
The aspiration towards Unity in joy and Light.
(Beginning of Matrimandir construction) 14.3.1971
The Matrimandir is directly under the influence of the Divine and certainly He arranges things better than we could do ourselves.
Oct. 1971
Let Auroville be the symbol of a progressive Unity and the best way to realise this is a unity of aspiration towards the Divine Perfection in work and in feelingin a consecration of the entire life.
(Beginning of the construction of the four pillars) 21.2.1972
North Mahakali East Mahalakshmi South Maheshwari West Mahasaraswati
(Significance of the four pillars)
Sincerity, Humility, Gratitude, Perseverance, Aspiration, Receptivity, Progress, Courage, Goodness, Generosity, Equality, Peace.
(Significance of the twelve rooms) July, 1972
(Significance of the Matrimandir Gardens)
Existence, Consciousness, Bliss, Light, Life, Power, Wealth, Utility, Progress, Youth, Harmony, Perfection, Unity.
Let us all work with a growing sincerity for the manifestation of the Divine Truth.
3.5.1972*
Goodwill and peace to all.