Join us on November 6th for a special live online presentation by Meenakshi and Raman in honor of the 150th year since Sri Aurobindo’s birth. This event is a fundraiser for a bilingual Tamil/English exhibition sharing the depth and breadth of Sri Aurobindo’s life and work.
On 4th April 1910, a man disembarked in Pondicherry, a sleepy trading post of French India by the Bay of Bengal and went into hiding. He was a wanted man in British India, but there was a prophecy about him that some people knew in the South which drew some of the leading Tamil poets, cultural and political figures of the time to his house every evening. By the time he passed away, Pondicherry was a place of Light on the world map. This brought about the next phase of his ‘action’ – the founding of Auroville, a city for the future of humankind, in a lost corner of Tamil Nadu. This city, initiated by the Mother, and named after him, was the model town they had both envisaged in 1931. Another prophecy emerged from this forgotten landscape, from a temple with a legend, as the new city was born.
Auroville wants to be the first realisation of human unity based on the teachings of Sri Aurobindo where people from all countries would be at home (The Mother)
In Pondicherry, an inscription under the poet Bharatidasan’s statue reads:
Everyone, take an oath / We will make a truly new world. We will do it.
To hear about all this and much more in relation to Sri Aurobindo’s 150th year, join long time Aurovilians, R.Meenakshi and Raman for a live presentation.
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