The Spirit of Auroville

Afterwards I received a letter dated 18.8.2000 from Barbara:

Dear Huta,

Well, that was a wonderful evening we spent wandering through the Matrimandir Gardens, present and "future". I think you enjoyed it as much as I did, and I hope you will take the time to come out here more often so that we can do it again. The Gardens' energy is starting to come now, so there should be visible beginnings soon. You can understand now why we are so anxious to incorporate any new/old material which might be with you, as we launch the work on the Gardens. Do let me know as soon as the book is ready.

Meanwhile, lots of love from everyone at Matrimandir. Apologies of this pen!

Love

Barbara

The Mother gave innumerable messages and talks to the people concerned regarding the Matrimandir and its surroundings. The following message from the Mother is indeed admirable:

Matrimandir is here to teach people that it is not by escaping from the world or ignoring it that they will realise the Divine in life. Matrimandir must be the symbol of this Truth.

The Matrimandir is certainly not a place where people can indulge in their vital enjoyments and their egos. It is not a tourist spot, either. It is a place for absorption of Truth, Love, Beauty and Peace. The whole world can find its home in the Heart of the Supreme Mother. These lines from Savitri are very appropriate:

A deep of compassion, a hushed sanctuary,
Her inward help unbarred a gate in heaven;
Love in her was wider than the universe,
The whole world could take refuge in her single heart. ||3.37||

Heavenly Beauty can only be created by peace, silence and harmony. In peace everything can be realised.

The Matrimandir must be a place where one can feel and create a sacred atmosphere and pure vibrations in order to realise and unite with the Supreme Truth and the Supreme Love and then spread these influences all over the world.

The Mother never asked anything from us. She simply gave and gave end-lessly. But a great wish of hers was the realisation of the Matrimandir. Several time she told me as well as others that she wanted the Matrimandir to be ready by her birth-centenary: February 21, 1978.

Indeed, we can only repay Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, for all that they have done and are still doing for us, by fulfilling faithfully and sincerely their "Dream" upon earth. Then and then alone is life worth living. And to fulfil that "Dream" we must weave into our lives the Message which the Mother gave me on my spiritual birthday in 1961:

Truth is supreme harmony and supreme delight.

All disorder, all suffering is a falsehood.

The Mother, Words of the Mother - III: Doctors and Medicines

This world of misery and confusion is a world of falsehood.

Only a change of consciousness and the conquest over falsehood can change the conditions of this world.

I hope that future generations will be able to rectify any mistakes commited by the old ones and make the Mother happy in order to fulfil her Supreme Vision of Truth and Love. In Sri Aurobindo's Light:

यतो वाचो निवर्तन्ते । अप्राप्य मनसा सह । आनन्दं ब्रह्मणो विद्वान् । न विभेति कुतश्चनेति । एतं ह वाव न तपति । किमहं साधु नाकरवम् । किमहं पापमकरवमिति । स य एवं विद्वानेते आत्मानं स्पृणुते । उभे ह्येवैष एते आत्मानं स्पृणुते । य एवं वेद । इत्युपनिषत् ।

सह नाववस्तु । सह नौ भुनक्तु । सह वीर्यं करवावहै । तेजस्वि नावधीतमस्तु मा विद्विषावहै । ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः

The Bliss of the Eternal from which words turn back without attaining and mind also returns baffled: who knows the Bliss of the Eternal, he fears not for aught in this world or elsewhere. Verily, to him comes not remorse and her torment saying, "Why have I left undone the good and why have I done that which was evil?" For he who knows the Eternal, knows these and delivers from them his Spirit; yea, he knows both evil and good for what they are and delivers his Spirit, who knows the Eternal. And this is Upanishad, the secret of the Veda.

Together may He protect us, together may He possess us, together may we make unto us strength and virility. May our reading be full of light and power. May we never hate. OM! Peace! Peace! Peace!

Sri Aurobindo, Kena and Other Upanishads: Taittiriya Upanishad