Auroville is a small town on the east coast of India. But this city is not a normal city! It was founded on February 28th, 1968. This city was born with a vision no smaller than to be the future of a new humanity, in which the inhabitants strive for higher consciousness and make human evolution visible by their own example.
How exciting is that?
A place where people are committed to the task of becoming the best version of themselves, evolving into more conscious beings and defining new forms of living together? Completely detached from all conventions? For more peace and continuous progress? OMG, I love this experiment!!
The big woman behind this great vision and founder of Auroville is "The Mother". Her core pillars are:
The Auroville Charter: A new vision of power and promise for people choosing another way of life
1. Auroville belongs to nobody in particular. Auroville belongs to humanity as a whole. But, to live in Auroville, one must be a 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.
Goose bumps.
Goose bumps.
Goose bumps.
The Mother had the dream that somewhere on earth there should be a place that does not belong to anyone, where all people can be free, a place of peace, unity, harmony. A place where people proactively reflect and overcome the causes of their lacking consciousness and resulting pain and that are guided by only one authority: the Supreme Truth. And: She not only had a dream, but under her leadership this place was created in reality and you can visit it today and experience its peaceful atmosphere by yourself.
In this place, the Mother writes in 1954, children can grow and develop holistically without losing contact with their soul; education would not be granted to pass exams or to obtain certificates and positions, but to expand knowledge and existing scientific faculties. In this place, titles and positions would be replaced by possibilities [...]; everyone's physical needs would be met and money would no longer be the dominant means. The individual value of a person would be much more important than material wealth and social prestige. There, work would not be a way to make a living, but a way to express yourself and develop your individual skills and possibilities.
In short, "it would be a place where human relationships, which are normally based almost exclusively on competition and strife, would be replaced by relationships of emulation in doing well, of collaboration and real brotherhood."
(From: „A Dream, Envisioning an Ideal Society“ by The Mother. Link to the website)
Is this not simply AWESOME? Each one of those sentences touch my heart deeply and feel right. Today, almost 70 years later, we finally begin to collectively recognize the truth of this vision and to agree and to demand that our school system must be reformed, that we need co-creation instead of competition when we work together, that we must first work on ourselves, so that peace from the insinde can give rise to allow peace on the outside.
May this vision never die, but be the orientation through our joint efforts for the next centuries on this planet.
Lots of Love,
Your Salome
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