The Spirit of Auroville

My dear Indiraji,

Namaskar

Thank you so much for your letter dated 21.9.84.

I am pleased to learn that you have received all my letters.

You have endless work to do and countless things to attend to. How can you realise you haven't written to me since June?

I do understand your situation and do not expect you to answer each and every letter of mine. Nevertheless, an occasional letter from you will make me very happy.

You wrote: "...But what has taken its place is narrowing of concepts, revivalism and fundamentalism. Things should change, but how?"

The Mother has written in one of her books:

"It is only when people truly want their consciousness to be changed that their actions also can be changed.

"The conditions under which men live upon earth are the result of their state of consciousness. To seek to change the conditions without changing the consciousness is a vain chimera."

I have understood directly from the Mother and the books of Sri Aurobindo that now we have entered a new Age—the Age of a new Consciousness. The New Consciousness manifested upon earth on 1 January 1969. The Mother called It "The Superman Consciousness." We must try to live That.

The whole world cannot be changed in a trice. But if each one of us tries to change our consciousness, then eventually the great Vision of the Supreme Lord will be fulfilled one day.

A spirit was there that sought for its own deep self,
Yet was content with fragments pushed in front
And parts of living that belied the Whole
But, pieced together, might one day be true. ||50.4||

From the occult point of view now the whole world is under the shadow of the governing force of a non-human being from the Vital World—the World of the Life-Force behind the world of Matter. The Mother calls this horrible being "The Lord of Falsehood—the Lord of Nations", because he tries his best to lead Nations as if he were their Master. He plays havoc in the world—especially in the Assemblies where the serious and important decisions are taken for the worlds' welfare. He overthrows creative and beautiful plans. He is pernicious. His emanations take possession of human minds —like Hitler, Stalin and others who have disruptive motives and want to regiment mankind.

I am enclosing a copy of one of my paintings from the book About Savitri with a comment of the Mother on a passage in Savitri. I have painted this picture according to her explanation.

The present world is not at all a pleasant one. It is terribly obstinate and obscure. Money, Power and Sex are prominent—and these are the cause of all troubles and catastrophes and what not....

Sri Aurobindo has written in Savitri:

Only were safe who kept God in their hearts: ||57.23||

When the Mother and I took up the new work of About Savitri after the work of Meditations on Savitri, she made comments which I tape-recorded. One of the explanations, which was her last comment, ran:

"This is the world as it seems to the eyes of an ignorant vanity that lives without knowing, sees without understanding and is cut off from its ORIGIN.

The 'WHY' of all this is hidden and unless it is discovered and lived consciously, life will always be an incoherent horror.

But we are here to discover, to know and to live, and we can bear the horror with the certitude that the Light, the Knowledge and the Purpose will be one day manifested.

With patience and firmness and quiet assurance we must go on, we must endure and we must realise."

With kindest thoughts and affection always in the Mother's Truth.

Yours sincerely,

Huta