Ordinary towns do not propose anything else other than individual and exclusive materialism. By its conception as an international centre, by its character as a laboratory at the scale of the planet, Auroville will represent the first city of
Roger Anger, UNESCO Paris, 1966
world citizens…The task to give a concrete form to the vision of Sri Aurobindo, has been given to the Mother: the creation of a new world, of a new society, expressing and incorporating a new consciousness to the work she has initiated…
The teaching of Sri Aurobindo : matter should be used, transformed and prove that spirituality is not incompatible with the utilisation of the most modern technique.
I strongly wish that we would stop referring to the Galaxy plan as Roger Anger’s plan. I would like to clarify this once and for all. It is not my vision, but the logical result of the research of a whole team over many months, and of the Mother’s presence in particular. Her inspiration and influence gave birth to the concept of the Galaxy. .. You cannot shake it off. I’d say it is not the image of the Galaxy that imposes itself on Auroville; it is the necessity of the city corresponding to Mother’s guidelines that leads us to the Galaxy.
What was fabulous with Mother was the aspect of no limits on possibilities – absolutely without limits… a concept of something that has never been done – of an unheard of dimension… That is how the Galaxy was born… She always said that the city existed already and that it only needed to be brought down on the material plane. She kept saying, her face, I remember, with her face turned upwards with her two arms raised, She said: “but the city, my child, it is made, it exists, one has to bring it down.
What was fabulous with Mother was the aspect of no limits on possibilities – absolutely without limits… a concept of something that has never been done – of an unheard of dimension… That is how the Galaxy was born… She always said that the city existed already and that it only needed to be brought down on the material plane. She kept saying, her face, I remember, with her face turned upwards with her two arms raised, She said: “but the city, my child, it is made, it exists, one has to bring it down.
One has to learn to live together as one will not always have enough land to build a house kilometres away from one’s nearest neighbour, and certainly not in Auroville. It is the business of Aurovilians to have the right attitude that is part of the work that we all have to do…One has to take an inventive step, an urbanistic one… include contemporary life, human relationships, technology and respect for nature, within a very creative context to show to the world that
it is possible. For the time being we are simply continuing to perpetuate a hollow, comfortable and uncreative system that has nothing to do with
the future, nor with the Mother’s dream. It is a revolution from within that one must envisage.
Auroville will undertake a perpetual search for the future with beings of high quality who will have, for a great deal, overcome their limitations, achieved a true communication, a true fraternity, based on openness, and an understanding of the other in a beautiful and harmonious environment within the context of an exceptional city… I believe Auroville will finally become reunited to an inner law and then it will be like a lighthouse – an unbelievable fire. I also believe the notion of the elect and the servitors are two different things. We are not the elect – that is madness, we are voluntary servitors, or perhaps chosen servitors.
