Watch the LIVESTREAM from Auroville, Feb 12
Auroville welcomes the world-renowned mantra artist Krishna Das on February 12th, 2023. Krishna Das offered a live chanting event to kick off the Summit on Science and Spirituality, which will feature scientists and spiritual teachers sharing wisdom about human evolution during times of challenge.
Auroville is a unique experiment in human unity located just north of Puducherry in Tamil Nadu, India. Learn more at auroville.org and aviusa.org/auroville.
Krishna Das developed his love of kirtan in the presence of his guru, Neem Karoli Baba. He spent several years in Kainchi, North India, at his guru’s ashram learning traditional chants including the Hanuman Chalisa in the early 70’s. Since then, Krishna Das has brought the spirit of devotion in his chants to audiences world-wide.
Special Thanks from Krishna Das/AVI USA team
The Krishna Das concert was beautiful, inspiring and heart opening. It was attended by 3000 people, as counted by the check-in staff with clickers. The scope of the audience was evident in the full front of the Amphitheater. 1311 Aurovilians and 1803 outsiders were registered, and out of that total only a little more than 100 were not present. Many young, recently settled Aurovilians who were familiar with Krishna Das and Ram Dass’ teachings were thrilled to witness the event. Older Aurovilians of Krishna Das’ generation, familiar with the 1970’s spiritual landscape outside Auroville were moved to see a representative of their generation join in spiritual practice in Auroville’s spiritual center.
A concert of this scope would not have been possible without months of preparation on all levels.
AVI USA coordinated logistics for the event Our coordinating efforts were made possible by the excellent, highly capable individuals and teams of Auroville, from Visitors Center, Matrimandir and Matrimandir Access, Prisma and AurovilleRadioTV, to all the unique individuals who reached out and lent a hand to this huge effort. We extend our heartfelt thanks to the many Aurovilians who made this event a success.
In no particular order, we would like to thank the tech team, headed by Auroville Radio: Stefano, Rajiv, Rateesh overseeing sound, Soundgarden of Pondicherry audio equipment; Piotr Redlinski directing filming, Marko overseeing the livestream, Alessandra on camera, Joel directing the drone, Abhimanyu & team, stage lighting, Mahesh, fiberoptic internet connections, Jyoti and her team with the flower arrangements, Suddha with stage decorations, Srimoyi, organizing Matrimandir Access, and stage decorations, Divya and tens of volunteers for check-in, bag check, water, restrooms and wheelchairs at the Amphitheater, Shilpi and her teams of ushers for orienting everyone and having everyone settled at almost 6:30pm!, Cansu, Wolfgang, Pramod, Sadiq for parking and Visitor’s Center orientation of guests, Nicole for the master plan of the entire Visitor’s Center logistics, including food access after the concert, Matrimandir office team for all the preparations and permissions, Jyoti the driver who managed to be available for all emergencies, Prisma for all printing, both parking signs and the staff T-shirts, Franz for the original idea of bringing Krishna Das to Auroville, in March 2022, Pranav for collaborating on printouts and T-shirt design and ticketing.
The Krishna Das team was thrilled with the concert and the quality of the livestream, which has reached 50, 000 views on the Krishna Das Music channel. Krishna Das graciously allowed us to post the livestream on their channel, in agreement with Auroville RadioTV, as we believed this would bring the most awareness to Auroville. All the links in the livestream point back to Auroville, and all donations from the livestream go back to Auroville.
Donate to Support the Live event
This event, and Auroville’s existence, is made possible by generous donations from well-wishers around the world.
Your donation today will support the team who made the event possible, and help us plan future events with a high level of sound, video and photography.
Auroville, the City the Earth Needs
About Auroville
The international township of Auroville was created on February 28th, 1968 in India, by The Mother, Mirra Alfassa with delegates of 124 nations. The innaugural ceremony was held in the same Amphitheater that will host Krishna Das.
Auroville wants 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 Alfassa, the Mother
Today Auroville is the home of ecological innovation, vast areas of reforestation, sustainability experiments, artistic endeavors aimed to highlight the expansion of consciousness, yoga and spirituality.