The Spirit of Auroville

Later the Mother told Nolini Kanta Gupta, Counouma, Dyuman, André, Amrita, Champaklal, Vasudha, Navajata and others that I had received the correct vision.

It was nice to read the Mother's talk of 23-6-65 in Mother India, Monthly Review of Culture, special issue of February 1967:

Have you heard of Auroville? For a long time, I had a plan of the 'ideal town', but that was during Sri Aurobindo's lifetime, with Sri Aurobindo living at the Centre. Afterwards, I was no longer interested. Then the idea of Auroville—I gave the name Auroville—was taken up again, but from the other end: instead of the formation having to find the place, it was a place—near the lake—which gave birth to the formation, and until now I took only a minor interest in it, for I had received nothing directly. Then our little Huta took it into her head to have a house there, by the lake, and to have a house for me next to hers—and to offer it to me. And she wrote me all her dreams: one or two sentences suddenly stirred an old, old memory of something which had tried to manifest—a creation—when I was very small and which had again started trying to manifest at the very beginning of the century, when I was with Theon. Then all that was forgotten. It came back with this letter: all at once, I had my plan for Auroville....

The Mother, Words of the Mother - I: Early Talks