The Spirit of Auroville

I came to know from a reliable source that Dr. Karan Singh was pushing the Government to "take over" Auroville as a "living memorial of Sri Aurobindo". But Kireet Joshi and Mr. C.P.N. Singh were protecting Auroville from such a drastic decision, and hoped for a solution which could leave it in more freedom, in the spirit of a laboratory as the Mother wished.

Gloria wrote to me in November 1980:

Dear Huta,

On the 10th Nov. during the sunset in the sky appeared two wonderful rainbows one over the other, perfect in their half-circle, with such vivid colours of beauty never seen before, all the landscape was in a clear golden light. For many of us it was like the sign of Mother to announce that the bad times for Auroville were finished and a new age was coming. We did not yet know that on this very day the President had signed the Ordinance for Auroville. In that moment Piero was alone on top of Matrimandir, he felt also that it was a silent gesture of the Universal Mother towards the future. We are very proud to be in India, a country whose Prime Minister has the courage to fight for a true spirituality agaist the corruption which hides itself behind religious excuses. It is not by accident if Indira Gandhi gave a new chance to develop Auroville, now that the danger of a 3rd World War is so acute. Mother was saying in the Agenda in Sept '66, talking about the mis-take of the nations in creating more and more formidable means of destruction, that it was to balance this mistake that she had created Auroville, as an action in the invisible, a seed of Truth. And Sri Aurobindo told Mother that when the governments will come under the Supramental influence they will become more wise (Agenda, May '67).

Dear Huta, we hope now Auroville will become

"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

"The city at the service of the Truth."

We will now very soon have the cement, after one year, and we will do concreting again in Matrimandir.

Is your work in Bombay going on well?

Your encouragement to have an unshakable faith in Mother's Victory has helped us very much to bear many difficulties. Now her Victory is becoming a reality.

In Mother's Light.

Gloria. Piero