The Spirit of Auroville

During this period, the Mother gave the following message regarding lands to people concerned:

May 1970

The lands for Auroville are to be bought and can be bought. The money is needed.

Will you help?

The Mother, Words of the Mother - I: Finance

Nothing was concretely done despite the Mother's message about the lands.

Now after many years the people concerned keep on sending folders and appeals on the letterhead—Auroville Land Fund.

I have received the letters and folders. I could not help except that I pray to the Supreme Lord to set everything right in Auroville.

My memory winged back to the year 1965 when the Mother told me and the people concerned to buy lands for Auroville as quickly as possible since the price would increase day by day. Unfortunately none paid heed to the Mother's warning. I felt very sorry and helpless, because I was not running the show! I did convey the message to them. But...

In the beginning there was a lot of money, because quite a number of people gave considerable amounts of money to Sri Aurobindo Society to buy lands for themselves and for the development of Auroville. But instead of this, the people concerned spent enormous amount of money in experimenting indiscriminately in building and breaking houses and other things without any precise result. It was a sheer waste of money, time, energy and consciousness.

The Mother always put stress on practicality and simplicity.

The following message form the Mother is quite appropriate:

For Those Who Have Some Land To Sell

There is a Supreme Divinity Witness of all our actions and the day of the consequence will come soon.

The Mother, Words of the Mother - II: Circumstances: Results of Past Actions

I read somewhere this humorous story of Four People:

This is the story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realised that Everybody would not do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody, when actually Nobody accused Anybody.

From this story anybody can draw a conclusion regarding the important work!