Joy of Work
There, work would not be a way to earn one’s living but a way to express oneself and to develop one’s capacities and possibilities while being of service to the community as a whole, which, for its own part, would provide for each individual’s subsistence and sphere of action.
Work, even manual work, is something indispensable for the inner discovery. If one does not work, if one does not put his consciousness into matter, the latter will never develop. To let the consciousness organize a bit of matter by means of one’s body is very good. To establish order around oneself helps to bring order within oneself. One should organize one’s life not according to outer and artificial rules, but according to an organized inner consciousness, for if one lets life go on without subjecting it to the control of the higher consciousness, it becomes fickle and inexpressive. It is to waste one’s time in the sense that matter remains without any conscious utilization.
- The Mother, To Be a True Aurovilian, CWM XIII, 13 June 1970
Auroville is created to realise the ideal of Sri Aurobindo who taught us the Karma Yoga. Auroville is for those who want to do the yoga of the work. To live in Auroville means to do the yoga of work. So all Aurovilians must take up work and do it as Yoga.
- The Mother, CWM XIII, 27 March 1973
