LFAU LETTER – 21st – 28th February 2026.pdf
LANDS FOR AUROVILLE UNIFIED (LFAU)
Auroville Centre for Urban Research, Administrative Area,
Auroville – 605101, Tamil Nadu, India
28th February 1968 – 28th February 2026
58 years ago, Auroville commenced her journey. But the idea, the formation of “an ideal city” was in the background for much of the Mother’s life. As early as in the 1930s, when Sri Aurobindo was physically present – and even before that, even before she came to India and met Sri Aurobindo – she hoped to found a new city, as can be ascertained from the following extract from her conversation with a close disciple in 1965:
The Mother: “For a long time, I had had a plan of the ‘ideal city’ but that was during Sri Aurobindo’s lifetime, with Sri Aurobindo living at its center. Afterwards … I was no longer interested. Then, we took up the idea of Auroville again (I was the one who called it “Auroville”), but from the other end: instead of the formation having to find the place, it was the place (near the Ousteri Lake) that caused the formation to be born; and up to now I took a very secondary interest in it because I hadn’t received anything direct.
Then that little H. took it into her head to have a house there, near the Lake, and have a house for me next to hers to offer me. And she wrote to me all her dreams; one or two sentences suddenly awakened an old, old memory of something that had tried to manifest – a creation – when I was very small (I don’t remember what age), and that had again tried to manifest at the very beginning of the century when I was with Théon. Then I had forgotten all about it.
And it came back with that letter: suddenly I had my plan of Auroville.”
(Mother’s Agenda, 23 June 1965)
In context of our work at Acres for Auroville, the striking point in the above extract is that it was “the place”, the availability of land and the possibility to develop it “that caused the formation to be born”. In other words, it was the Matter which REVIVED the idea, the aspiration, the vision, the dream. This could well be an example that Matter and the Spirit are not two different phenomena, as was believed by many earlier seekers. It is a single reality.
A question was put to the Mother: “How dependent is the building of Auroville upon man ‘s acceptance of Spirituality?”. She replied:
“The opposition between spirituality and material life, the division between the two has no sense for me as, in truth, life and the spirit are one and it is in and by the physical work that the highest Spirit must be manifested.” (19 April 1968)
From this perspective, ‘Acres for Auroville’ is not just about land consolidation: it is an actual cradle for the consolidation of consciousness and the “highest Spirit” in the material substance of Auroville.
With trust in Auroville’s bright future,
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