{"id":6259,"date":"2013-07-13T02:06:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=6259"},"modified":"2013-07-13T02:06:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:06:42","slug":"32-april-20-1968-vol-09-volume-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/03-agenda\/09-volume-09\/32-april-20-1968-vol-09-volume-09","title":{"rendered":"-32_April 20_1968.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><H3>April 20, 1968<\/H3><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><i>(Mother holds out a note on Auroville)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>(<i>Question:) How dependent is the building of Auroville<\/i><P><i>&nbsp;upon man&#8217;s acceptance of spirituality?<br \/>\n<\/i><br \/>\n<P><i>(Mother&#8217;s answer:) The opposition between spirituality<\/i><P><i>&nbsp;and<br \/>\nmaterial life, the division between the two has no<\/i><P><i>&nbsp;sense for me<br \/>\nas, in truth, life and the spirit are ONE and <\/i><br \/>\n<P><i>it is in and by physical work that the highest spirit must <\/i><br \/>\n<P><i>be manifested. <\/i><br \/>\n<P>I got today a letter from a Swedish lady, I think (Swedish or Norwegian, I don&#8217;t know), who bought a crucifixion&#8230;. A HUGE painting &#8211; huge, I forget its size, but it&#8217;s fantastic, something like thirty feet high. She asks me what she should do with it! She wants to send it to me&#8230;. So I&#8217;ve told her (she paid a good sum for it, but she&#8217;s a very rich woman; only she wanted to make a gift of it to me), I&#8217;ve told her to make an exhibition in a large hall, with, written under the painting, &#8220;The Past.&#8221; Then to put next to<P align=\"center\"><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\">Page 109<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><P>&nbsp;it, quite small, a photo of the galaxy, which is almost identical to Auroville&#8217;s plan &#8211; a photo of the galaxy, big as this, and below, Auroville&#8217;s plan big as this <i>(gesture still smaller), <\/i>and to write, &#8220;The Future.&#8221;<br \/>\n<P>And she&#8217;ll make people pay to come in and see!<br \/>\n<P>Do you know that photo of the galaxy? It&#8217;s really lovely. One of the plans for Auroville is almost identical, and they did it without seeing the photo of the galaxy&#8230;. They&#8217;ll put those two photos, and if people ask questions, they&#8217;ll be told, &#8220;Write there, you&#8217;ll get an answer.&#8221;<br \/>\n<P>I thought it would be an interesting symbol.<br \/>\n<P>You understand, if I put anything else, I mean a photo of Sri Aurobindo, for instance, or books, it will look like &#8230; it will be as if we wanted to start a new religion &#8211; I don&#8217;t want religions, an end to religions!<br \/>\n<P>So it&#8217;s an attempt to realize.<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\">* * *<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><i>(Mother then goes into a long contemplation<\/i><P align=\"center\"><i>&nbsp;that<br \/>\nwill last till the end.)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>Do you have anything to ask?<\/p>\n<p><i>Are things all right?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>Oh, it&#8217;s very interesting&#8230;. These days seem to be decisive ones. All supports are done away with, there remains only That One.<P align=\"center\"><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\">Page 110<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"right\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 20, 1968 (Mother holds out a note on Auroville) (Question:) How dependent is the building of Auroville&nbsp;upon man&#8217;s acceptance of spirituality? 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