INSPIRING QUOTES – THE FLAME OF LOVE & ONENESS

INSPIRING QUOTES FROM SRI AUROBINDO & THE MOTHER THE FLAME OF LOVE & ONENESS   Inspiring Quotes – The Flame of Love & Oneness.pdf   The Mother made the connection between the inner flame, love, unity, and our purpose in the world. Here is a selection from these inspiring quotes which she communicated in messages […]

LANDS FOR AUROVILLE UNIFIED LETTER – 24 NOVEMBER 2025

  LANDS FOR AUROVILLE UNIFIED (LFAU) Auroville Centre for Urban Research, Administrative Area,   Auroville – 605101, Tamil Nadu, India   LFAU Letter – 24 November 2025.pdf   24th November 2025 Today, 99 years ago, Sri Aurobindo reached a milestone, a new stage and foundation in his quest for a new principle of evolution which […]

GAZES INTO THE HEARTLAND

Gazes into the Heartland- Reflections on Auroville Life – and Life by Anandi Zhang   Writing this article is a timely review of my life journey so far, and a turning to a new chapter. I willingly engage and am grateful; the same sentiment goes for my being in Auroville and engaging in its activities. […]

ACRES FOR AUROVILLE FLIER -24 NOVEMBER 2025

ACRES FOR AUROVILLE Land Campaign 17th & 24th November 2025 Inspiration & Dedication                 Acres for Auroville Flier – 24 November 2025.pdf We are the Keepers of the Flame November holds the days of Sri Aurobindo’s landmark spiritual realisation and The Mother’s departure from earthly life – both […]

15TH AUGUST 2025 – THE ACRES FOR AUROVILLE NEWSLETTER

In this newsletter, we are happy to present details of the Master Plan land added to Auroville since the start of A4A – all thanks to your donations! In addition, we share articles that attest to the ongoing creativity and commitment of Aurovilians and friends: our A4A flier and LFAU letter share the vision that motivates our work; two articles featuring the contributions and life paths of longtime Aurovilians Uma Prajapati and Lalit Kishor Bhati; and the announcement of the new Art For Land exhibition at the Unity Pavilion – creativity in several media on a theme based on Sri Aurobindo’s works: ‘The Inner Awakening & The Outer Expression’. We finish with a text from Sri Aurobindo on the need for and difficulties of personal and collective transformation. Despite the many challenges of our times, A4A continues its commitment to consolidating and protecting Auroville’s land to ensure its viable future and provide the space for the manifestation of the City of Dawn!

ACRES FOR AUROVILLE FLIER -15 August 2025

In Sri Aurobindo’s “Five Dreams” he laid out his visions for the world’s future – dreams that he said were already in progress, and as inevitable realizations: “a new spirit of oneness will take hold of the human race” and “a step in evolution which would raise man to a higher and larger consciousness ….” These dreams are the force behind the Auroville vision. Accordingly, the Matrimandir’s four entrances represent the Higher Forces of Wisdom, Strength, Harmony and Perfection, the inner qualities we need in order to do the outer work – the difficult, but certain, realization of Unity and Consciousness, the reasons for the creation and existence of Auroville. Version française en pdf … பிடிஎஃப்பில் தமிழ்ப் பதிப்பு

LANDS FOR AUROVILLE UNIFIED LETTER – 15 AUGUST 2025

The Mother had said that Sri Aurobindo’s birth is “an eternal birth”. Today we celebrate that birth, and we also celebrate the start of Year 12 of the Acres for Auroville land campaign. This solidarity action has brought in 187.14 acres of once-missing Master Plan land and is the sole funding source for Auroville’s land consolidation and protection. Despite the growing virtualization of the world, the physical world and matter remain of utmost importance – for in Sri Aurobindo’s worldview they are the basis upon which the new life and new creation are to grow. Support for A4A enables the Auroville new creation to grow physically in matter, aligning with the vision carried by Sri Aurobindo’s “eternal birth”. Version française en pdf … பிடிஎஃப்பில் தமிழ்ப் பதிப்பு

A4A – 187.14 ACRES & 11 YEARS OF CONSOLIDATING THE LAND!

The Acres for Auroville land campaign was launched on August 15, 2014 for raising funds to secure, consolidate, and protect the unified land base that The Mother envisaged for the City of Dawn. This collaborative unity action has inspired thousands of donations to address this most essential need – land for manifesting the Auroville dream! As we start Year 12, we are gratified to announce our positive results: thanks to you, 187.14 new consolidating acres have been added to Auroville to date in 21 strategic City areas, and 20 Greenbelt farms, forest zones, and nature preserves. In A4A Year 12, we continue our commitment to raising funds for the land needed to ensure the township’s viability and unified future, and to manifest Auroville’s futuristic and evolutionary goals. Each day, your donations bring us closer to success – click to see photos of some of the new land that your solidarity has enabled!

UMA PRAJAPATI – FINDING MEANING AND CREATIVITY IN AUROVILLE

Uma arrived in Auroville in 1996 for a two-week project at Auromode. Those two weeks never ended and have become three decadesr! She came with the degree and technical skills of a trained fashion designer, but had no idea that fashion would become her yoga. After her work at Auromode, Uma founded Upasana design studio, which led her to the discoveries of business as yoga, ownership without ownership, bringing consciousness into fashion, and social projects such as the renowned Tsunamika. Seeing work as “worship”, Uma is now involved in collective tasks at Town Hall – anti-encroachment work at the Land Service and youth housing and Campus Management at the Housing Service. She says: “I am a joyful workaholic at the feet of the Divine Mother. I only ask, how can I serve?”

DISCOVERING THAT AUROVILLE IS A LIFELONG LIVING CURRICULUM – BY LALIT KISHOR BHATI

“Only a greater wholeness of being, knowledge, and power can unite life into something true and whole.” For Lalit, these words by Sri Aurobindo lit an inner fire, for a life of “wholeness” is his goal. A trained architect with a post-graduate degree in Urban Planning, Lalit did his internship with the legendary architect B.V. Doshi. Then, as part of the team preparing the urban master plan for 50,000 residents at ISKCON’s World Headquarters in West Bengal, he came to Auroville in 1997 as part of a professional study. In 1998, he was invited to join Aurofuture as a planning consultant and then L’Avenir as the urban planning coordinator. With his wife Shailaja and two children, he has built his life in Auroville. Part 1 of a two-part article shares his past 27 years of work in diverse aspects of Auroville’s collective life and development, which have shaped the path of his Integral Yoga quest. In his words, “Auroville is a Living Curriculum”.

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