Auroville Today · Auroville’s Monthly news magazine since 1988

Issue No. 395-96, June-July 2022

The Matrimandir water channel is built

On the night of April 19th – 20th, 2022 a special milestone was reached with the completion of the installation of the waterproofing liner in the 7.5 metre wide water channel, one kilometre long, which now surrounds the Matrimandir gardens. This chann Read more >>

Internal Organisation

In the eye of the storm: the Residents’ Assembly Service

The members of the Residents’ Assembly Service. From left: Sathish, Giovanni, Tatiana and DanAuroville’s Residents’ Assem ...

Auroville Foundation

The spiritual foundation of the Auroville Foundation Act

For me, it was an absolute delight to listen to Kireet Bhai on the governance of Auroville. He, so beautifully, explains ...

Auroville Foundation

Let Thy Will be done

Mandakini Gupta, a former student of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Ashram school) in Puducherry, w ...

News in Brief

Government grant for Sri Aurobindo’s 150th anniversary celebrationsTo commemorate the 150th anniversary of Sri Aurobindo, ...

Spirituality

Spirituality in Action

Richard deciphering a particularly difficult manuscript of Sri Aurobindo, now published in ‘Vedic and Philological Studie ...

Spirituality

The power of work and possibility

MandakiniIn 2014, Mandakini Lucien-Brun of Auroville International France teamed up with longtime land fundraiser Aryadee ...

Spirituality

Being responsive to the psychic and the impact of the collective

DeeptiDeepti Tewari joined Auroville 47 years ago and teaches at Last School. She is editor of the Bharat Nivas Journal. ...

Spirituality

Karma yoga

Divya KapoorWorking in Auroville has its own specialty. As novice honorary volunteers, drawn to the idea of Auroville and ...

Spirituality

The first necessity, the inner discovery

DidierDidier Weiss joined Auroville in 1994 and started a few years later Sound Wizard, an Auroville unit that specialise ...

Spirituality

‘Pour la joie que cela nous donne’ (‘For the sake of the joy that it gives us’)

Pushkar studied at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry), where he started studying music. He ...

Spirituality

Reaping Mother’s gifts

Amudha taking a classAmudha joined Auroville 43 years ago. She helped start the Kindergarten in 1984 and continues to tea ...

Spirituality

Youth’s musings on spirituality in action

In Future School, students can choose to follow an elective course in which the writings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother ...

Spirituality

Spirituality: the magic hat of consciousness and the Auroville magnet

Spirituality is a very perilous word because its meaning can be adapted to whatever you feel like at any given moment. It ...

History

Charlie and the Aurogreen Farm

In the beginning / The road to Nilantangam / The first house in AurogreenCovering about 25 acres in the northeast part of ...

Community

Measuring Eternity

The Eternity fence destruction in full swingOn April 14, Tamil New Year, a frantic voice message for help was heard by ma ...

Youth

Auroville youth abroad

Auroville youth are often asked why they choose to go abroad. The majority answer that they wish to pursue higher educati ...

Profile

Dance, Talk, Love

VegaVega is a facilitator of Nonviolent Communication, a “language of compassion” focussed on deep listening and deep awa ...

Passings

In memoriam

Luigi ZanziOn May 4th, Luigi Zanzi passed away in his apartment in Citadines. He had been struggling with his health for ...

Spirituality

Is a tree spiritual?

IslandI was asked to submit an article on the theme of trees and spirituality. As a species, we tend to anthropomorphise ...

Spirituality

Integral agriculture

AnshulOne of the biggest mysteries, for me, has been the process of change itself. The transformation of one thing into a ...

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