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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

ART FOR LAND EXHIBITION – FEBRUARY 2025

On February 2nd the Unity Pavilion hosted the inauguration of the Art for Land February 2025 exhibition – ongoing till March 30th. Flowers hold a profound significance in Auroville’s spiritual landscape since The Mother assigned deep symbolic meanings to various blooms. The exhibition honors this important theme with a dual presentation of original artworks: ‘The Spirit of Auroville’ with artworks from 1971- 1973 by Sri Aurobindo Ashram artists, inspired by flowers and qualities chosen by The Mother for Auroville, along with works by Dilip Patel and Jyoti Khare; and ‘Flowers by Hasi’ – a radiant tribute to the late Hasi Grandcolas.

INAUGURATING OUR A4A NEW YEAR CARD 2025

Sending our New Year’s card is an opportunity to present something of the spirit of Auroville and the futuristic vision of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother among Auroville’s worldwide friends. Before we start distribution, we hold a small Card Inauguration Ceremony in our Lands for Auroville Unified (LFAU) office and invite an Aurovilian to release the card. This year, we had the pleasure to invite Zech, an Auroville poet and philosopher from the Philippines! Our card is available at Auroville’s Town Hall Reception Area, and you can also receive the card by writing to lfau@auroville.org.in

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”.

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