Matrimandir Gardens

On the Matrimandir Peace area - 2003

Page 44

I

Huta had the feeling that perhaps all this was a dream and she expressed it to the Mother, who answered: My very dear little child Huta, you say that Aurovile is a 'dream'. Yes, it is a 'dream' of the Lord and generally these 'dreams' turn up to be true, much more true than the human so-called realities! With all my love."

There was great expectancy as to when and how the inauguration of Auroville would take place. On the morning of 11.9.67, after their work together, the Mother told Huta: "Ah! now I am telling you how it will be. We want young people - young in body and mind. Here we have 600 children who will invite the children of the world. They will come with a handful of soil of their own countries. This soil will be collected in a marble lotus urn of a special kind and then this urn will be sealed up..." After a brief trance, the Mother added: "The Truth Pavilion and your tiny house will be very close to each other - your house will stand between the Banyan tree and the Truth Pavilion. All these will be on an island - surrounded by water, trees and the Gardens of Unity. It will take five years if we have sufficient money. Yes... otherwise... but I want the whole town to be built within ten years time..." Huta said: "Mother, nothing is impossible for You and the Lord." The Mother affirmed: "Exactly, this is what I tell people who are anxious, that the Lord will do everything..."