August 3, 1968

(Mother remains very tired. She nevertheless listens to a long

 paper on Auroville, which she rejects, and prepares with Satprem

 a note summing up the ideal of this future city:)

" For millennia, we have been developing outer means, outer instruments, outer techniques of living - and finally those means and techniques are crushing us. The sign of the new humanity is a reversal in the standpoint, and the understanding that inner knowledge and inner technique can change the world and master it without crushing it.

"Auroville is the place where this new way of living is being worked out, it is a center of accelerated evolution where man must begin to change his world through the power of the inner spirit."

* * *

Then Mother goes into

 a long contemplation

It seems to be accelerated transformation, it's a little crushing. We'll see.

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