“.. .the clear vision: that same thing which, in the history of the universe, had made the earth the symbolic representation of the universe so as to be able to concentrate the work on one point, the same phenomenon is
taking place now : India represents all the terrestrial human difficulties, and it is in India that there will be the cure. And it is for this - it is FOR THIS that I have been made to start Auroville."

"For millennia, we have developed outer means, outer instruments, outer techniques of life - and eventually these means and these techniques are crushing us. The sign of the new humanity is a reversal of perspective and the understanding that the inner means, the inner knowledge and the inner technique can change the world and master it without crushing it".

"Auroville is the place where this new way of life is being worked out; it is a center of accelerated evolution where Man has to start changing his world by the inner spirit".

"India, she that has carried in herself from of old the secret, can alone lead the way in this great transformation of which the present "sandhya" of the old "yuga" is the forerunner. This must be her mission and service to humanity, — as she discovered the inner spiritual life for the individual, so now to discover for the race its integral collective expression and found for mankind its new spiritual and communal order".