The Spirit of Auroville

I could gather from Aurovilians' letters to me that the situation in Auroville seemed to be deteriorating:

I was told that the Matrimandir office had been closed by the police, but still a group of Aurovilians continued their work quietly without intervention of the police. Aurovilians hoped to seek help from the Central Government, Delhi. I heard too about the terrible tussle between Shyamsunder and Aurovilians, so that he could not go to his house near the Matrimandir without escorts, also about the dissatisfaction and disbelief of villagers, and an acute financial crisis.

All these unpleasant things led the people concerned to take recourse to court-cases, legality, police and politics and so on.

The tussle between Aurovilians and the Society still went on. An Aurovilian wrote to me:

Despite many difficulties and setbacks the work in Matrimandir continues and proceeds well, ignoring the order of police, they are doing their duty and we are doing the duty which the Mother entrusted on us.

We are obliged to work in the Matrimandir against the law. But we are following the Higher Law.

I really admired the strong will power of the Aurovilians, and their perseverance.

Somebody suggested to me to send the booklet Matrimandir—The Mother's Truth and Love to Mr. J.R.D. Tata. I did so.