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Re: Welcome to Auroville

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Post by jariel »

lopmotr wrote: post #13
oriettaxx wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I went there, too. A lot, and only, black people working for 'illuminated' white (rich) ones: I was pretty shocked. Nothing new, really: and this is pretty sad.

If you have a principle of nondiscrimination and people self-select into different roles, what can you do? Discriminate or accept their differences?

Rich people coming in and living easy, and other, very poor people moving in because maybe they need a job is not 'self-selection' it's 'a priori selection' based upon the economic systems they are coming in from, not the one they are in.

These places make great sets for fun movies though ...

Re: Welcome to Auroville

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Post by adamretter »

As I was staying in Pondicherry for a month so I a visited Auroville a few times in 2018. It's hard to describe. On the one hand it seems like a cause for good, on the other you occasionally discover some out-of-place clearly expensive and wealthy buildings for residents dotted around the jungle which forms the site. Seems to have some strange contradictions.

Re: Welcome to Auroville

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Post by Barrin92 »

>"Auroville was born on 28 February 1968. Its founder, the Mother, created the Auroville Charter consisting of four main ideas which underpinned her vision for Auroville. When Auroville came into being, All India Radio (AIR) broadcast the Charter, live, in 16 languages. Aurovilians apply the ideas of the Auroville Charter in their daily life, in policy-development, and decisions, big and small. The Charter thus forms an omnipresent referent that silently guides the people who choose to live and work for Auroville.

The Auroville Charter Auroville belongs to nobody in particular. Auroville belongs to humanity as a whole. But, to live in Auroville, one must be a willing servitor of the Divine Consciousness. Auroville will be the place of an unending education, of constant progress, and a youth that never ages. Auroville wants to be the bridge between the past and the future. Taking advantage of all discoveries from without and from within, Auroville will boldly spring towards future realisations. Auroville will be a site of material and spiritual researches for a living embodiment of an actual human unity."

Well that sounds completely normal /s

I've seen Midsommar, no thanks

Re: Welcome to Auroville

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Post by algesten »

ethagnawl wrote: post #12

I stayed at the compound in Pondicherry. I remember there being some slightly strange rules you had to agree to in order to stay there (e.g. no sex) but the "staff" (don't know if they were employees or devotees?) were welcoming and the accommodations were great. The compound is right on the Bay of Bengal and sleeping in that room with the windows open and the waves crashing was an experience I'll never forget.

When I was there, I learnt that Auroville share a lot with Sri Aurobindo and the Holy Mother, but the ashram/compounds in Pondicherry doesn't have as much to do with Auroville itself these days as it did back in the 60s-70s.

Re: Welcome to Auroville

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Post by andrii »

Ritsuko_akagi wrote: post #20

Funny I read about this place in r/india a few times and they seem to regard it as a racist hippie colony.

I have been to Auroville twice in 2010 and 2017 and cannot recommend it enough to anyone at least slightly interested in spiritual development.

Re: Welcome to Auroville

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Post by andy_ppp »

I went there, it’s pretty weird if I’m honest. I felt as if I was living in an Indian Hitchcock film. It felt as though there were people who were tourists and people who lived there and they were very separate. I have this feeling the whole place is a riddle, I’d like to go back and try to understand it again...
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