The Spirit of Auroville

I met Paolo. He informed me that Roger was willing to change the Urn. But I came to know from an authentic source that Roger was insisting to Navajata to keep the present Urn—so Navajata declared that it was out of the question to alter it, or to give his consent.

The people concerned gave Paolo the impression that the present Urn was the Mother's Vision and wish. Roger told Paolo that he showed the photograph of the Urn to the Mother and she was very pleased with it and approved fully. What could she say or do when the Urn was already made and the photograph taken?

Sundaram, a well-known Gujarati poet and Ashramite, wrote in the magazine Dakshina of February 1968 about the present Urn:

The shape somewhat like Shivalingam was constructed in the middle where the soil of the whole world was deposited.

Even a small child can say that the present Urn is not a lotus. I think Sundaram is absolutely right in describing the present Urn as a Shivalingam.