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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 crop has been attacked by insects. While we are studying non-poisonous means of control, and until we have enough information to handle this problem, we thought of carefully using some insecticides. May we have permission to do this and your protection in handling them?
A mild and harmless protector is often more effective than a poisonous one. 1 April 1966 Page – 234 It seems to me that the very land of Auroville aspires. Is it true, Sweet Mother?
Yes, the land itself has a consciousness, even though this consciousness is not intellectualised and cannot express itself. 21 March 1968 (Message for the Auroville Liaison Office, established to raise funds and screen persons interested in visiting or living in Auroville)
To be at the head of the Liaison Office one must feel absolutely equal towards all and every nation. A complete sincerity is required in this attitude. April 1968 Divine Mother, Do you want me to personally interview the people who come here to work for Auroville before we send their pictures to you?
Yes. 20 June 1968 Divine Mother, Last Sunday several of the Ashram younger children unexpectedly went out on the Auroville lorry and spent the whole morning in Auroville. There were several adults along, including X, Y, Z and myself, to look after them.
Should we encourage the children to go out to Auroville on Sundays if we properly supervise them, or not? Page – 235 Yes, they can go if it is well organised. Blessings. 28 June 1968 Divine Mother, 1. Do we need a Personnel Department in Auroville?
No.
2. Should it be a part of the Liaison Office?
Do not multiply departments, titles and names. It complicates life uselessly. 28 June 1968 (Message for the laying of the foundation-stone of Aurofood Private Limited)
We shall work for a better tomorrow. 14 August 1968 (About Peace – the Matrimandir Workers Camp and its surrounding area)
I should like this whole place to be called “Peace”, and that peace, actual peace should reign there, not only between the occupants but with the whole of Auroville, present and future. 29 December 1968
It seems that there is more opposition to the Divine’s work at Peace than other places in Auroville. Is this true? Is there an occult reason for this? Page – 236 Be confident and peaceful yourself. That is contagious. My blessings are with you. 1969 (Message for the inauguration of the Auroville blockmaking unit)
To do always our best in all sincerity. To be always our best in all sincerity. 23 June 1969 Message for Auroson’s House, Certitude community A New House for a New Consciousness. Blessings. 25 June 1969 Auromodele is being built to make a concrete experiment and to learn how to live in Auroville. 18 August 1969
Divine Mother, I want to help build Auroville. I feel that the most practical way for me to help would be to go back to America and work for Auroville. Is this your will?
My will is that you do some useful, practical and effective work in America or here according to your feeling. With love and blessings. 31 December 1969 Page – 237 What is the purpose of life in Auroville in general and Auromod`ele in particular? Is it to serve the community or to be a true servitor of the Divine Consciousness?
The purpose of life in Auromod`ele is to learn to live in Auroville, to make all the experiments necessary for learning to live in Auroville.
We want to find a way for the community to live for the Divine.
Each individual has his own way but the group community should find a way to suit everyone. 22 May 1970 (About interviewing the residents of an Auroville community on various subjects)
It would perhaps be better to ask people who, by a serious practice of yoga, have had at least a glimpse of the Higher Wisdom. 1970 Divine Mother, What caused me to get sick this last time in Auroville? Will I be able to live in Auroville again?
Don’t think too much of yourself. Love and blessings. 29 November 1970 (Message for the inauguration of Aspiration School)
A sincere will to know and to progress. 15 December 1970 Page―238 (Languages to be studied at Aspiration School)
(1) Tamil (2) French (3) Simplified Sanskrit to replace Hindi as the language of India (4) English as the international language. 15 December 1970
(Message for the Auroville office in Pondicherry)
1971 A Sweet Year 2 January 1971 (Message for the Gazette Aurovilienne)
We would wish that this Gazette be the messenger of the future and of the progress to be realised for humanity. January 1971
(Someone received a bill for food and transport between Pondicherry and Aspiration School in Auroville. She wrote to Mother, who replied: ) The education is free. But naturally the transport and food must be paid for 6 February 1971
(Someone asked whether chemical fertilisers and pesticides should be used in Auroville.) Page – 239 NO, NO, NO. Auroville should not fall back into old errors which belong to a past that is trying to revive. March 1971 Cultivation without chemical fertilisers and dangerous insecticides is advisable. 1971 (Messages for the inauguration of Last School, near Aspiration)
The future belongs to those who want to progress. Blessings to those whose motto is: “Always better.” In the physical the Divine manifests as Beauty. 6 October 1971 (Message for the flower-nursery “Beauty”) Flowers are the prayers of the vegetal world. The plants offer their beauty to the Supreme. 5 November 1971 (Significance of the garden surrounding the banyan tree at the geographical centre of Auroville)
Unity. Page – 240 Divine Mother, About Mahalakshmi, Sri Aurobindo has said: “If she finds herself in men’s hearts surrounded with selfishness and hatred and jealousy and malignance and envy and strife, if treachery and greed and ingratitude are mixed in the sacred chalice, if grossness of passion and unrefined desire degrade devotion, in such hearts the gracious and beautiful Goddess will not linger. A divine disgust seizes upon her and she withdraws, for she is not one who insists or strives….” In fear that you may do this, and with sorrow that we have caused you pain, we, at Aspiration, ask your forgiveness. Many of us, many times, have promised to change; many of us again do so promise now. We pray for the grace. With our love. My love and blessings are always with you for progress and transformation.¹ 12 April 1972 Beloved Mother, In the practical contact with the “outside” world I am often confronted with the decision how far I can comply with their forms and conditions and how strictly I should insist on the total newness of our attempts in Auroville.
A word from you would bring more light into my engagement with the world outside of Auroville.
At the service of the Divine in full receptivity and sincerity. Blessings. 2 January ¹When writing her reply ,Mother said that this letter should be framed and kept in place of meditation Page – 241 |