The Spirit of Auroville

On 28.2.1968 the Mother gave one more message, thus:

Auroville:

At last a place where one will be able to think only of the future.

The Mother, Words of the Mother - I: Aims and Principles

At last a place where one will be able to think only of progressing and transcending oneself

At last there is a place where one will be able to live in peace, without conflicts and without rivalries among nations, religions and ambitions.

At last there is a place where nothing will have the right to impose itself as the exclusive truth.

The Mother, Words of the Mother - I: Aims and Principles

The same day the Mother gave yet another message:

To put around the tree

Auroville the City at the service of Truth.

What The Mother had wished was done, but unhappily for only a short time. This Message, which was engraved in French and in Tamil on a large copper ring and then put into place around the trunk of the banyan tree was removed, and the place meant for it was empty for many years, until again the copper was found and re-installed upon the Banyan tree, where it can be seen today.

The Mother gave great importance to the Banyan tree for occult reasons of her own.

She always loved tall trees and was against cutting them down. We may read in the book White Roses the following two letters by her:

Nature aspires through her tall trees.

The trees rise towards the sky, beautiful symbols of Nature's aspiration towards the Light.