LANDS FOR AUROVILLE UNIFIED (LFAU)
Auroville Centre for Urban Research, Administrative Area,
Auroville – 605101, Tamil Nadu, India
LFAU Letter – 24 November 2024.pdf
எல்எஃப்ஏயூ செய்திமடல் – 24 நவம்பர் 2024.pdf
Lettre de Lands for Auroville Unified – 24 novembre 2024.pdf
Once, in 1935, a disciple conveyed to Sri Aurobindo a dream he had:
“… I was walking in the street, carrying some kind of big flat drum. Just for fun I touched it with my fingers and very sweet musical sounds were produced. Perhaps it was a broken drum, for no one expected any music to come from it, but as I went on playing, fine music was coming out.”
Sri Aurobindo replied as follows:
“It is a symbol of the harmony that can be brought out of the human nature in spite of its present imperfection when one gives it the true touch, that is, puts it under the true psychic influence.”
The above single-sentence answer of Sri Aurobindo reveals to us the secret of harmony in human nature and, consequently, in human life. When human nature gets “the true touch”, puts itself “under the true psychic influence”, then the true and genuine harmony can be revealed and witnessed.
In Sri Aurobindo’s “Five Dreams” he spoke of “a step in evolution which would raise man to a higher and larger consciousness and begin the solution of the problems which have perplexed and vexed him since he first began to think and to dream of individual perfection and a perfect society … That unification of the human world is under way; … but struggling against tremendous difficulties.” And he continued: “unification is a necessity of Nature … there must grow up an international spirit and outlook … a new spirit of oneness will take hold of the human race.”
The key to this is the inner harmony and unity that is to be discovered and lived. And this is precisely the aim of Auroville. In the first point in her six points note “To Be a True Aurovilian”, the Mother referred to this:
“The first thing needed is the inner discovery, to find out what one truly is behind social, moral, cultural, racial and hereditary appearances. At the centre there is a being, free and vast and knowing, who awaits our discovery and who should become the active centre of our being and our life in Auroville.”
The important thing for Aurovilians and all who support the vision and goals of Auroville, no matter where they may live, is to keep sight of the goal, of the task, of the road to be traversed and to have endless patience. Auroville provides the material frame for this patience to be practiced, this aspiration to be cultivated, this knowledge to be preserved, this vision to be nurtured. That is the importance of Auroville….and our work at A4A is to secure and safeguard the physical base of Auroville for this to occur.
With trust in Auroville’s bright future,
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