India - the Mother

February 3, 1968

(Mother reads a message she has given for Auroville inauguration.)

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 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.... 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.

Mother's Agenda: February 3, 1968