The Spirit of Auroville

I received a letter dated 17.5.74 from Vikas:

17 May 1974

Dear Huta,

I thought to tell you the more complete story about the trees at Bharat Nivas.

The fact is that it was the architect of Bharat Nivas, Mr. Chakrapani of Madras, who refused to change his design in anyway in order to save some of the trees. Roger was quite happy that the trees might be saved, but he put as his first principle that the architect's word should be law, because Mother had told him to give all the support to this Mr. Chakrapani. Any how, Roger would not force the architect to change his design, so eventually 200 trees will come down. Sad. I find myself still confused about things. Mother once said that we can never be right against anybody, that Truth only exists at a level above oppositions. I truly want Mother's Vision to be realised, because it is beautiful, simple, true, but most of all because it is Mother's Vision, and I love Mother more than anything else in the world. And yet I am told that She Herself changed Her mind.

All I know is that ultimately all of this difficulty will be overpassed, and Truth will triumph in outer things, as it already has in our hearts.

With love, in Truth

Vikas

Vikas wrote: ..."I am told that She Herself changed Her mind."

The Mother never changed her mind. She was beyond thinking mind. She always acted from Above.

Vikas has also written about 200 trees.

To cut the trees and their branches is against the Mother's wish.

The Mother has explained about trees and flowers:

The movement of love is not limited to human beings and it is perhaps less distorted in other worlds than in the human. Look at the flowers and trees. When the sun sets and all becomes silent, sit down for a moment and put yourself into communion with nature: you will feel rising from the earth, from below the roots of the trees and mounting upward and coursing through their fibres up to the highest outstretching branches, the aspiration of an intense love and longing,—a longing for something that brings light and gives happiness, for the light that is gone and they wish to have back again. There is a yearning so pure and intense that if you can feel the movement in the trees, your own being too will go up in an ardent prayer for the peace and light and love that are unmanifested here.

The Mother, Questions and Answers (1929 - 1931): 2 June 1929