United States of America
(Sri Aurobindo, 1926:) “I have received recently letters from different parts of the United States which seem to indicate the beginning of a demand for my writings and, for other reasons also, I have been for some time desirous to bring out my works in America including those not yet published in book form.”[1]
(Sri Aurobindo, 1926:) “The general mind [in India] has not yet advanced far enough from the old moorings to form even an inadequate conception of what I am doing here and it is easily disconcerted by the departure from old forms, a willed absence of the customary paraphernalia and the breaking of traditional barriers and limits.
That is one considerable advantage of America; there is evidently a sufficiently widespread eagerness and openness of mind to new things. We have to see whether this will be sufficient to open the mind also to deep and true things. The spiritual future of America is not yet decided; it is in the balance. There is a great possibility before her, but it depends on Americans themselves whether she will make good and realise it. Otherwise she will follow the disastrous curve of other western peoples. India and America stand prominent at the two poles that have to meet and become one, the spiritual and the material life; one has shown a preeminent capacity of realisation on the spiritual, the other on the material plane. America must be able to receive freely India’s riches and to give freely in return from her own for the material organisation of a higher life on the physical plane; this is at once a condition and her chance. At present it is only a possibility; let us see whether it can be made an achieved and perfected symbol.”[2]
(Shyam Sunder on a meeting with Mother, 19 October 1972:) “Auroarindam wants to start a newsletter in America. Mother was asked for a name.
She said, “The only name that comes is ‘Attempt’.”
While waiting for the card to write the name, she said, “You write to him that it is a part of the name. When he sends us proof of success, it will be ‘Successful Attempt’.”[3]
(Shyam Sunder on a meeting with Mother, 8 November 1972:) “June Maher asks Mother about the incorporation of Auroville Association of Santa Cruz under the law of California, and also if it should be the same name.
Mother approves of the registration and the same name.”[4]
(Shyam Sunder on a meeting with Mother, 8 November 1972:) “The University of Boston has sent a $50/- cheque to Ashram after hearing Udar's speech with thanks for ‘sending such a fine individual’. Cheque offered to Mother.”[5]
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See also
- Matagiri
- Sri Aurobindo Center of Los Angeles
- La Grâce (Sri Aurobindo Integral Life Center)
- Collaboration (journal)
- Shantimayi
- Nishtha (Margaret Wilson)
- Henry Ford
- =1 "Paradise Hyllton"
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