The Spirit of Auroville

I also felt inspired to write to Kireet Joshi, who after leaving the Ashram had been helping the Aurovilians very much in Delhi. Here is the letter I sent to him on 5.10.87:

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Dear Kireetbha

Namaskar.

So much water has flowed under the bridge these past many years. Time is running out. Life is too short to waste. That is why I was inspired to write this letter to you, knowing that you will surely understand the value of the Mother's Vision regarding the Matrimandir—where now so many controversies are going on among so many groups.

At the moment Roger Anger is here. He has appeared on the scene after ten years or so, and claimed to have sole right on the project and wishes to do things quite contrary to all that the Mother had wished. Piero Cicionesi who worked from scratch in the Matrimandir is not heard at all.

Although I do not go there, I know certain things. I am enclosing copies of letters I have written to Roger and the Members of Auroville Council. Kindly judge them for yourself and answer these people who oppose and argue and hinder the Mother's work. Please do not let them distort the Mother's beautiful Dream. As a matter of fact, it is high time you came back to the Ashram and saw that the Matrimandir would be completed according to the Mother's wish.

When the Mother was the Queen of Egypt, she wanted to build a unique shrine and a big city. I am enclosing the xerox copy of the mummy-picture of the Queen and the text which I have written. This portion is a part of The Story of a Soul which I have been writing. The Mother encouraged me to do so. She has given this message for it:

This is the interesting story of how a being discovers the Divine Life.

I am giving only outlines in Mother India. But I have to write fourteen volumes—each will be almost hundreds of pages! Please pray for me.

I have so much to tell you—all in tune with the Mother's Consciousness. But I wonder when you will be here! Mohini is well. Sometimes we meet and talk for hours. She gave me your address and told me of your feeling that the Ashram is your true home. But, of course, you are a child of the Mother and where else can you go to if not to Her? So Kireetbhai, whatever you had to do in Delhi, you have done successfully. Now you are very much needed here. I personally feel that you may fulfil the Mother's wish. I am certain your soul will be very happy here. I trust you are well and busy—very busy as always.

Kireetbhai, believe me, I have no axe to grind. I am very happy and content, because I feel constantly the Peace and Presence of the Supreme Lord, which can never be bought with the wealth of the world.

Ending the letter with a lovely quotation from the Mother:

We have only one thing to do, the perfect surrender of which Sri Aurobindo speaks, the total self-giving to the Divine Will whatever happens, even in the midst of the night.

There is the night and there is the sun, the night and the sun, again the night, many nights, but one must cling to the Will to surrender, cling to it as through a tempest, and give up everything into the hands of the Supreme Lord, until the day when the Sun comes forever, the total Victory.

The Mother, Words of the Mother - III: 15 November 1958

With kindest thoughts and warm regards

In the Mother's Truth and Love,

Yours sincerely,

Huta

Perhaps due to numerous political commitments Kireetbhai did not answer!