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ACRES FOR AUROVILLE FLIER – 21 TO 28 FEBRUARY 2025

“To do as well as possible and as perfectly as possible, in the minutest details and with the right attitude, in each thing and for all works, without fail, without getting discouraged – one must try with all one’s heart and perservere with the hope of finding this perfection. Then one is sure of taking a step towards the transformation … If we can detach ourselves and once and for all do away with our little ego, then we can find the grand cosmic harmony which upholds everything and pervades all the worlds below and above.” Version française en pdf … பிடிஎஃப்பில் தமிழ்ப் பதிப்பு

LFAU LETTER – 21 FEBRUARY 2025

Birthdays are connected with the body, with the physical appearance or manifestation on earth but behind this bodily birth, this physical appearance, there is a vaster invisible geography where the souls, the psychic beings are born. The latter dates back to immemorial times and are part and even propellers of the evolution on earth. In the context of the birth of Auroville, its body and the physical advent of Auroville took place as we know, on the 28th of February 1968, but in the vaster invisible geography, Auroville was born much before… Version française en pdf … பிடிஎஃப்பில் தமிழ்ப் பதிப்பு

INSPIRING QUOTES – THE HUMAN CYCLE

‘Modern society has discovered a new principle of survival, progress, but the aim of that progress it has never discovered, — unless the aim is always more knowledge, more equipment, convenience and comfort, more enjoyment, a greater and still greater complexity of the social economy, a more and more cumbrously opulent life… That so far has been the nature of modern progress. Only in its new turn inwards, towards a greater subjectivity now only beginning, is there a better hope; for by that turning it may discover that the real truth of man is to be found in his soul…. ‘

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025!

The year 2025 is upon us! We, at the land fundraising team, take this occasion to create a New Year’s card with the idea and hope to bring out something of Auroville’s inspiration and its profound goal of human unity and spiritual evolution. This year, we present images of the Matrimandir – the heart and soul of Auroville, and the manifestation of decades of dedicated commitment by Aurovilians and friends in support of that goal. The beautiful photos have been offered by Auroville photographer and architect Lalit Kishore Bhati. If you have not received our New Year’s mail and would like to receive a hard copy of our card, please write us at lfau@auroville.org.in

LAND FUNDRAISERS’ NEWSLETTER – 24 NOVEMBER ’24

We are happy to share our quarterly newsletter on the auspicious day of 24 November 24, for it was on this day in 1926 that Sri Aurobindo announced a decisive, historic progress in his Integral Yoga. Our newsletter shares the human stories behind Auroville’s development – stories of ideals, devotion and commitment and the ongoing creativity coming from Auroville, the world’s first material site dedicated to developing the new society and consciousness that Sri Aurobindo foresaw. The newsletter summary appears in French and Tamil: Version française en pdf … பிடிஎஃப்பில் தமிழ்ப் பதிப்பு

ACRES FOR AUROVILLE FLIER – 24 NOVEMBER 2024

The Matrimandir is designed to receive and transmit light. Light for The Mother was “the symbol of future realisations.” and connecting with light was essential : “There is only one recourse, it is to unite ourselves as perfectly as we can with the highest and purest light we can conceive of.” And along with light, love was capital for The Mother : “To live in Love, by Love, for Love, indissolubly united to The highest manifestation.” And when speaking about Auroville in particular, she said “A wide movement of love is the only possible concrete for ‘building something else’”. Version française en pdf … பிடிஎஃப்பில் தமிழ்ப் பதிப்பு

LFAU LETTER – 24 NOVEMBER 2024

In correspondence with a disciple, Sri Aurobindo spoke of the secret for harmony in human nature and human life, « 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.” In “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.” Version française en pdf … பிடிஎஃப்பில் தமிழ்ப் பதிப்பு

AUROVILLE PIONEER PAULETTE – THE AVATAR’S CIRCLE – PART TWO

After living and working with the Sri Aurobindo Ashram’s sadhaks, in 1985 Paulette moved to Auroville with her 4 year-old daughter and worked at the ‘stars’ on the Matrimandir’s roof. Successively, under the Laboratory of Evolution / Centre for Human Unity, Paulette became involved in Integral Yoga research and publication of archival documents from the Mother’s years. After fourteen years as a pioneer in Anusuya, in the Greenbelt, Paulette moved to Vikas, the first ecological community in the residential zone, supervising for three months the construction of its major building. Her many research papers, articles, books and exhibitions are dedicated to the manifestation of “the Avatar’s model town”: for “within is without”.

AUROVILLE PIONEER ARYAMANI – A SOUL’S JOURNEY

Aryamani was born in a cacao plantation in the forests of Brazil. At Bahia University, she met the dance teacher Rolf Gelewsky who introduced her to Sri Aurobindo’s teachings, a life-changing event. After years of dance, study and contribution to expand the Integral Yoga in Brazil, she left for India and the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. In 1979, she moved to Auroville with her partner Luigi, where they founded the Transformation community. Aryamani has been an Auroville teacher, and as a director, has creatively staged Sri Aurobindo’s plays, passages from Savitri and Indian sacred scriptures, and most recently an original work “To Her”, on The Mother. She is the translator into Portuguese of “The Life Divine” The Synthesis of Yoga and “Essays on the Gita”.

AVI USA’S DECEMBER MATCHING DONATION CAMPAIGN

Did you know that every December, AVI USA doubles your donations to Acres for Auroville ? When you donate to A4A via AVI USA in December, your donation will be matched, and A4A will get double the money ! This great possibility applies to all donors and all donations, coming from any country and in any currency. As there’s a limit of $2500 total that can be matched, it’s best to give quickly in order to have your donation doubled !! If you would like to have your donation to Acres for Auroville doubled, donate in December at this link: https://give.aviusa.org/page/a4a

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