The Spirit of Auroville

Dyumanbhai gave me the following letter dated 16th August 1986 and asked me to keep it carefully:

Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust

Telegram: Aurobindo-Pondicherry

Pondicherry—605002

S. India

26th August 1986

The Mother asked me to keep a copy of her letter dated 26th December 1969 before delivering it to Huta.

The letter was about a house to be built for Huta near the Matrimandir in Auroville, of which the Mother had appointed Huta the guardian in 1965.

The Mother's letter to Huta was as follows:

"I told you myself that this money was used for the first day ceremony of Auroville; and when the time of building Auroville, your pavilion would be built without asking you anything more. When I gave you the receipt, you did not want to take it, but I told you to keep it as a proof that you had already paid for your pavilion, so that no more money should be asked from you.

There has never been any mention of the possibility of returning the money to you—This is quite out of question.

Blessings

The Mother

Dyuman

Trustee

Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust

Pondicherry.

Also I received a number of letters from Carlo Schuller urging me to take action and offering his support.

Eventually I felt that now it was essential to clarify the situation and finally make public what happened between the Mother and me in May 1973.

My eternal gratitude to the Mother for releasing me from the guardianship of the Matrimandir.

I gave my long article under the title An Important Announcement to Amal Kiran (K.D. Sethna) the Editor of Mother India—Monthly Review of Culture. It appeared in the Special Issue—15 August 1994: Sri Aurobindo's Birth Anniversary.