January 2024
Arrived at Auroville
Auroville, a township envisaged as the future of the world, is a successful experiment in living in harmony with all the elements of nature, including the diverse species of human beings, says Meghan
January of 2024, as we begin a brand-new year, I welcome you to this new column, where you explore a new place from the comfort of your own pace. As you read, visualize, and imagine, you end up sowing the seeds to having a live experience of that place one day. So come, travel with Meghan to one of the most unique places on the planet, where every need can be met, all pockets can be matched, all desires can be fulfilled and every person of any nation, age, skin, culture, language, profession and seeking can come home to their truest being,
Welcome to AUROVILLE: a global township in “Oh my God, why do we have to GO somewhere?”
“Do you guys have any idea what it takes to do all this planning, booking, organising with everyone asking for different things?” “Why do we have to go anywhere? I will miss my swimming classes!”
“And man it is so expensive to do all your favorite things in one place!” “Can we not go to a place but go to a movie?” “Can we just Netflix and that’s our holiday?”
Sounds familiar?
Yet we shake off the comfort of our conveniences, shed the security of the familiar, and follow the innate human need to EXPLORE! We put all obstacles aside and set out like a traveling troubadour, in search of the new. the south of India.
As you turn from the beautiful highway by the sea into this little universe, you are bound to feel an expansion of your inner self. You will experience the universal truth of ONENESS that you have read and heard about in the fairy tales and fables of your childhood. Auroville is a universal township devoted to an experiment in human unity that began in 1930. In 1966 UNESCO passed a unanimous resolution commending it as a project of importance to the future of humanity. Today Auroville, located in Tamil Nadu near Puducherry, is recognized as the first and only internationally endorsed ongoing experiment in human unity. It is dedicated to conducting research on sustainable living and catering to the cultural, environmental, social, and spiritual needs of mankind. Auroville, the remote red soil township, envisaged as a city for 50,000 people, is an emerging township of presently about 3,300 honorary voluntary workers from India and around 60 countries around the world.
It is a place where you can wake up in the forest and spend the day staring at the waves on a clean peaceful beach, witnessing the rising and falling of your thoughts and feelings. Here is a place where you can bump into strangers from various parts of the world, and share long conversations over tasty healthy meals with people who think, speak, and look so different from your routine life back home. Where you physically realize that you are on a large planet of very diverse cultures and communities. Where you experience the possibility of meeting your Higher Self in a unique collectivity!
You can walk in the forest. You can work on the farms. You can interact with the animals and trees. You can recreate your own stories of community and spirituality, with textures and tales of the past, and build an understanding of every theme in the world. From health and healing, art, architecture, education, culture, renewable energy, sustainable living, and environmental regeneration to innovative building technologies, handicrafts, small-scale industries, and rural development – everything is available here. You can taste flavors from around the world in their authentic form, or mixed in various combinations, like the community itself. You can explore out-of-the-world experiences through sound, music, and water, as well as community art and healing workshops on every possible theme and modality. As these experiences activate your dopamine, you can deep dive into the whispers, words, and wisdom of your true nature.
Here is a dynamic land. It is as if human beings are vertical tectonic plates, creating a new society for a new world. No wonder Auroville is called – ‘The City of the Dawn’ and ‘The Future of the World in India.’
Mirra Alfasa who founded Auroville (lovingly called The Mother) said: “Everybody has to learn to collaborate. It is a very good discipline for the vanity, self-love, and excessive sense of the importance of personalities.”
As you gradually start to discover this green belt, you stand in awe of the golden globe in the center: a transformational energy portal – the banyan tree that nourishes souls from every walk of life. The red earth blesses your path and your journey, and the statue of Sri Aurobindo in the Savitri Bhavan inspires you to choose courage over fear on this path towards consciousness. This land will give you immense opportunities to face yourself, your fears, and your fantasies and get grounded in the very purpose of your life. The exquisite beauty of various spaces in Auroville, the lush greenery, the plethora of activities, and the joyfulness of its adventure will spark new beginnings and usher you into a new, better life. No matter what you do, you will leave Auroville with only one feeling: of having arrived!
As John Bunyan said in his book, The Pilgrim’s Progress, “I seek a place that can never be destroyed, one that is pure, and that fadeth not away, and it is laid up in heaven, and safe there, to be given, at the time appointed, to them that seek it with all their heart.” – AUROVILLE is that place!
Until your next booking, signing off!
Meghan loves the majesty of the planet and the human enterprise. As an ex-plorer, she writes on various themes- sacred spaces being her passion. Meghan is also a quantum energy healer and a clairvoyant channel.
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