The Spirit of Auroville

On 11.9.67 the Mother saw me in the morning. After our work, she said with a charming smile:

Ah! now I am telling you how it will be. We want young people—young in body and mind.

Here we have 600 children who will invite the children of the world. They will come with a handful of soil of their own countries. This soil will be collected in a marble lotus-urn of a special kind and then this urn will be sealed up.

The Mother went into a trance for a moment or two. She awoke, and said:

The Truth Pavilion and your tiny house will be very close to each other—your house will stand between the Banyan tree and the Truth Pavilion. All these will be on an island—surrounded by water, trees and the Gardens of Unity. It will take five years if we have sufficient money. Yes... otherwise... But I want the whole town to be built within ten years' time.

I said, “Mother, nothing is impossible for You and the Lord.”

She affirmed:

Exactly, this is what I tell people who are anxious, that the Lord will do everything.

And she laughed softly.

Then she drew a sketch of my tiny house and explained it:

Everything must be built-in—so that the rooms look big and empty of many things. Everything must be simple: sitting-cum-office room, sleeping room, bathroom and small kitchenette.

I should like to quote the Mother:

There is a great beauty in simplicity.

The Mother, Words of the Mother - II: Simplicity

To express harmony, of all things simplicity is the best.

The Mother, Words of the Mother - II: Simplicity