Auroville centres of India

A Talk By The Mother On Savitri (a report written from memory) by Mona Sarkar Do You read Savitri ? Yes Mother, yes. You have read the whole poem? Yes Mother, I have read it twice. Have you understood all that you have read? Not much, but I like poetry, that is why I read it. It does not matter if you do not understand it ? Savitri, read it always. You will see that every time you read it, something new will be revealed to you. Each time you will get a new glimpse, each time a new experience; things which were not there, things you did not understand arise and suddenly become clear. Always an unexpected vision comes up through the words and lines. Every time you try to read and understand, you will see that something is added, something which was hidden behind is revealed clearly and vividly. I tell you the very verses you have read once before, will appear to you in a different light each time you re-read them. This is what of happens invariably. Always your experie...

If we want to progress integrally, we must build within our conscious being a strong and pure mental synthesis which can serve us as a protection against temptations from outside, as a landmark to prevent us from going astray, as a beacon to light our way across the moving ocean of life. Each individual should build up this mental synthesis according to his own tendencies and affinities and aspirations. But if we want it to be truly living and luminous, it must be centred on the idea that is the intellectual representation symbolising That which is at the centre of our being, That which is our life and our light. This idea, expressed in sublime words, has been taught in various forms by all the great Instructors in all lands and all ages. The Self of each one and the great universal Self are one. Since all that is exists from all eternity in its essence and principle, why make a distinction between the being and its origin, between ourselves and what we place at the beginning?...

( Mother first reads out for All India Radio the text of her "reminiscences" of her life in India: see the conversation of  January 27 . ) Then I’ve written something else…. They wanted to prepare a sort of brochure on Auroville to distribute to the press, the government, etc., on the 28th, 1  and before that, there is in Delhi in two or three days a conference of all nations (“all nations” is an exaggeration, but anyway they say “all nations”). Z is going there, and she wants to take with her all the papers on Auroville. They have prepared texts—always lengthy, interminable: speeches and more speeches. So then I asked, I concentrated to know what had to be said. And all of a sudden, Sri Aurobindo gave me a revelation. That was something interesting. I concentrated to know the why the how and so on, and all of a sudden Sri Aurobindo said… ( Mother reads out a note: ) “India has become… It was the vision of the thing, and it instantly translated into French words. ...