Originally posted on sciy.org by Ron Anastasia on Mon 02 Jan 2006 10:24 PM PST
In
1968 The Mother founded Auroville, the international community of peace and
spiritual
growth. It's purpose is to be an experimental community where individuals can make the
effort to evolve beyond their present limitations. Auroville has been established as an
experiment in Human Unity where each individual is freed from bondage to moral and social
conventions and the necessity of working for material possessions. There is no religion
practiced there, nor is there ownership of property. The emphasis is on each person
discovering his/her own inner center behind the social, moral, cultural and racial
heredity and appearances, and actively living from that center, expressing it in outer
work for the community. Auroville is a UN sponsored endeavor that attracts people
worldwide because of its openness, new age lifestyle, and dedication to a vision of a new
humanity.
One main reason The Mother had in mind in founding Auroville was that the city must be a symbol of human unity and thus prevent the next world war by its very presence on earth. She even declared that as long as Auroville existed, no war would break out.
Human
tendencies of pugnacity, competition, spite, jealousy, and rivalry are bound
to surface in such a cosmopolitan place where hundreds of men and women gather
and live. Their daily lives offer thousands of occasions for human
interactions. The Mother wanted those innumerable occasions to become the
anvil on which human nature would consent to be beaten into a divine
shape. If in Auroville individuals shape themselves anew in the image of the Divine
and endeavor to transform their own human nature into Divine nature, life
on earth would gently turn to the Divine. This was The Mother’s
intention. She even said that Auroville was a field of experimentation,
not an exhibition of already accomplished perfection.
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