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.
“India has become the symbolic representation of all the difficulties of modern mankind.
“India will be the land of its resurrection—the resurrection to a higher and truer life.”
And the clear vision: the same thing which in the history of the universe made the earth the symbolic representation of the universe so as to concentrate the work on one point, the same phenomenon is now taking place: India is the representation of all human difficulties on earth, and it is in India that the… cure will be found. And then, that is why—THAT IS WHY I was made to start Auroville.
It came and it was so clear, so tremendously powerful!
So I wrote it down. I didn’t tell them how or why, I told them, “Put this at the beginning of your paper, whatever it is; you can say whatever you like, but put this first.”
(silence)
It was very interesting. It remained the whole time, for more than an hour, such a strong and clear vision, as if suddenly everything became clear. I often used to wonder about it (not “wonder,” but there was a tension to understand why things, here in India, have become such a chaos, with such sordid difficulties, and all of it piling up), and instantly, everything became clear, like that. It was really interesting. And immediately there was: “Here is why you have made Auroville.” I didn’t know it, you understand, I did the thing under pressure, and it took larger and larger proportions (it’s becoming really worldwide), and I would wonder why…. For a time I thought it was the only present possibility to prevent a war,2 but it seemed to me a somewhat superficial explanation. Then it came all of a sudden: “Ah! That’s why.”
And as that whole power was in it, I said, “Put it.” We’ll see—they won’t understand anything, but that doesn’t matter, it will act.
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