A Universal Township
Auroville wishes to be the cradle of supermen.
Auroville is the shelter built for all those who want to hasten towards a future of Knowledge, Peace and Unity.
Auroville is the ideal place for those who want to know the joy and liberation of no longer having any personal possessions.
Earth needs a place where men can live away from all national rivalries, social conventions, self-contradictory moralities and contending religions; a place where human beings, freed from all slavery to the past, can devote themselves wholly to the discovery and practice of the Divine Consciousness that is seeking to manifest. Auroville wants to be this place and offers itself to all who aspire to live the Truth of tomorrow.
Auroville: At last a place where one will be able to think only of the future. At last a place where one will be able to think only of progressing and transcending oneself. At last a place where one will be able to live in peace, without conflicts and without rivalries of nations, religions and ambitions. At last a place where nothing will have the right to impose itself as the exclusive truth.
Auroville should be at the service of Truth, beyond all social, political and religious convictions.
Auroville is the effort towards peace, in sincerity and Truth.
The aims of Auroville
An effective human unity Peace upon earth
Auroville wants to be the first realisation of human unity based on the teaching of Sri Aurobindo, where men of all countries would be at home.
AUROVILLE
The city at the service of Truth
Charter of Auroville in The Mother's handwriting
The Mother
Words of The Mother - I > Auroville
1) Who has taken the initiative for the construction of Auroville?
The Supreme Lord.
2) Who participates in the financing of Auroville?
3) If one wants to live in Auroville, what does it imply for oneself?
To try to attain the Supreme Perfection.
4) Must one be a student of yoga in order to live in Auroville?
All life is yoga. Therefore one cannot live without practising the supreme yoga.
5) What will be the Ashram's role in Auroville?
Whatever the Supreme Lord wants it to be.
6) Will there be camping-grounds in Auroville?
All things are as they should be, when they should be.
7) Will family life continue in Auroville?
If one has not gone beyond that.
8) Can one retain one's religion in Auroville?
9) Can one be an atheist in Auroville?
10) Will there be a social life in Auroville?
11) Will there be compulsory community activities in Auroville?
Nothing is compulsory.
12) Will money be used in Auroville?
No, Auroville will have money relations only with the outside world.
13) How will work be organised and distributed in Auroville?
"Money would no longer be the sovereign lord; individual worth would have a far greater importance than that of material wealth and social standing. 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."
14) What will be the relations between the inhabitants of Auroville and the outside world?
Each person is allowed full freedom. The external relations of residents in Auroville will be established for each one according to his personal aspiration and his activities within Auroville.
15) Who will own the land and buildings of Auroville?
16) What languages will be used for teaching?
All the spoken languages of the earth.
17) What will be the means of transport in Auroville?
We do not know. 2
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Words of the Mother - I > Auroville
The dot at the centre represents Unity, the Supreme; the inner circle represents the creation, the conception of the City; the petals represent the power of expression, realisation.
It seems to me that the very land of Auroville aspires. Is it true, Sweet Mother?
Yes, the land itself has a consciousness, even though this consciousness is not intellectualised and cannot express itself.
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