April 13, 1968
R. [Auroville's architect] has come for five days, and he wants to make what he calls a “district” of Auroville, that is to say, instead of tackling the problem of ten or twenty thousand people at once, he wants to start with two or three thousand, on the level of infrastructure, but above all to see how it will work: the experiment of life in Auroville…. I had thought about it, and when I spoke to you last time, that’s what came: in what direction should the experiment be carried out? You see, Y. has ideas in the field of education (I am not intervening); as for R., he has ideas in the field of construction (I am not intervening); but no one has studied the problem on the level of administration or organization, and of money, and that was precisely what I spoke of to you about last time.
So if you could read me what I told you, if it does I’ll give them the text…. There is also this communist Russian architect, who has become quite enthusiastic: to him Auroville is the ideal realization. He is a very strong boy, with some power (also a power of conviction over people). So it would be interesting if he could have a glimpse of the direction in which we’re going.
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(Mother listens to Satprem
read out the last conversation)
It’s incomplete.
There are already many things in it.
(silence)
But in the past, in Vedic times, sages were advisers to the
kings. In the past it was like that.
Or rather that’s what we’re told!
I’ll speak later. What was in my consciousness was far more complete and general than what I said here, so … Right now the experiences are very, very much activated, very intense. But once they’re told, they become flat. So I’d rather not say anything – later.
It’s not flat. There’s a power in it.
Yes, but what I lived inwardly was a hundred times stronger…. Oh, I know it’ll do them good, but …
What has remained in the consciousness is something that must be lived before being told. So we’ve got some time!
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