Auroville - The Mother's experiment of manifesting synthesis

It has almost been a year now that I have been residing in and out of Auroville as a volunteer. There is no place like this on the whole planet as far as I know where The Mother dreamt of human unity for the incarnating souls who will be faced with the onslaught of the forces of darkness (which always are looking to create separation). The Brotherhood envisioned and taught in Theosophy was one step taken further in this century amidst forces of darkness, chaos, hatred and divisiveness.

The barren land of 1960s has been transformed into a dry tropical evergreen forest through permaculture patiently practiced over half a century.

Today Matrimandir (An inner temple of the Divine Mother physically manifested and treated as soul of AUROVILLE ) is seen from above as shown below

The book Auroville: Sun-Word Rising by Savitra (Alan Shasha Lithman) aptly captures the battle being fought to manifest Auroville soon after physical passing away of The Mother in 1973. An image of this book (from Auroville's Library) but can be freely downloaded from auro e-books website.

Ofcourse Auroville is still admist new battle of seemingly varying ideologies. Unfortunately residents of Auroville forgetting their divinity are succumbing to human ignorance and weakness and are fighting amongst each other by forming two groups (common black and white thinking or duality of good and evil explained by the great Initiate Jesus in Kim Micheals' books). Yet still here is a place which has manifested despite humans as The Mother had prophesized at the end of her incarnation. Savitra one of true Aurovillian's book captures the initial period of turbulent manifestation during 1980s.

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