Auroville is a self-sufficient community a few kilometers from Pondicherry. It stretches across a vast area of land amidst some local villages. Wikipedia describes this place this way “Auroville (…) was founded in 1968 by Mirra Richard and designed by architect Roger Anger. Auroville is meant to be a universal town 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 realize human unity. Mirra envisioned a town where unity will be celebrated and all will have a spiritual vocation. The town has 1,700 people from over 35 different nationalities, from which about one third are Indians (more than 15% are French and 15% are German).
The four point Auraville charter:
1. Auroville belongs to nobody in particular. Auroville belongs to humanity as a whole. But to live in Auroville, one must be the willing servitor of the Divine Consciousness.
2. Auroville will be the place of an unending education, of constant progress, and a youth that never ages.
3. Auroville wants to be the bridge between the past and the future. Taking advantage of all discoveries from without and from within, Auroville will boldly spring towards future realisations.
4. Auroville will be a site of material and spiritual researches for a living embodiment of an actual Human Unity.
We visited the beach entrance of the city and spoke to a frequent visitor there who has totally sold us the idealistic idea of it. Once we left the place we realized how big Auraville really is. It was extremely interesting for me, the people seemed extremely relaxed and calm and conscious of their lives and their environment. It was captivating, far from the hippies smoking weed and doing nothing with their lives we saw in Mahabalipurum. I would love to return to Auroville for a couple of weeks for an enlightenment experience!
Ann on her way to the mist
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Hi,
Just got to know about this place today. So, if somebody want to live there, do you need to take permission or something. This sounds very interesting, I will surely visit it sometime.
Thanks,
Ruchi
I want to return to Auraville and spend at least a couple of weeks there. To watch how other people live. And to learn something from them.
Hello.
Do you know, is there any documentary about Auraville?
Sinceresly I have no idea, I have never seen one. Don’t forget to share your findings if you locate a movie speaking about auroville. Thanks for your comment!.