Auroville
THEME/S
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.
20.9.1969
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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.
Jan. 1967, Feb. 1968
Auroville wishes to be the cradle of supermen.
Auroville is meant to hasten the advent of the supramental Reality upon earth.
The help of all those who find that the world is not as it ought to be is welcome.
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Each one must know if he wants to associate with an old world ready for death, or to work for a new and better world preparing to be born.
1.2.1972
Auroville is the shelter built for all those who want to hasten towards a future of Knowledge, Peace and Unity.
16.3.1967
Auroville is the ideal place for those who want to know the joy and liberation of no longer having any personal possessions.
Auroville wants to be a universal township where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony, above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities.
The purpose of Auroville is to realise human unity.
8.9.1965
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.
20.9.1966
Auroville is an attempt towards world peace, friendship, fraternity, unity.
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The aims of Auroville
An effective human unity
Peace upon earth
Auroville aspires for union.
1970
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.
Jan. 1972*
AUROVILLE
The city at the service of Truth
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The Matrimandir will be the soul of Auroville.
The sooner the soul is there, the better it will be for everybody and especially for the Aurovilians.
15.11.1970
There is only one Matrimandir, the Matrimandir of Auroville. The others must have another name.
5.10.1971*
The Matrimandir wants to be the symbol of the Divine's answer to man's aspiration for perfection.
Union with the Divine manifesting in a progressive human unity.
14.8.1970
Laying of the Matrimandir foundation stone
Let the Matrimandir be the living symbol of Auroville's aspiration for the Divme
21.2.1971*
Beginning of Matrimandir construction
The fraternity of collaboration.
The aspiration towards Unity in joy and Light.
14.3.1971
The Matrimandir is directly under the influence of the Divine and certainly He arranges things better than we could do ourselves.
4 Oct. 1971
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Beginning of the construction of the four pillars
Let Auroville be the symbol
of a progressive Unity
And the best way to realise this
is a unity of aspiration towards
the Divine Perfection
in work and in feeling
in a consecration of the entire life.
21.2.1972
Significance of the four pillars
North Mahakali East Mahalakshmi
South Maheshwari East Mahasaraswati
Significance of the twelve rooms
Sincerity, Humility, Gratitude, Perseverance, Aspiration, Receptivity, Progress, Courage, Goodness, Generosity, Equality, Peace.
July. 1972
Significance of the Matrimandir gardens
Existence, Consciousness, Bliss, Light, Life, Power, Wealth, .Utility, Progress, Youth, Harmony, Perfection, Unity.
Let us all work with a growing sincerity for the manifestation of the Divine Truth. 3.5.1972*
Goodwill and peace to all.
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