AUROVILLE • REGION

... it would be a place where relations between human beings, usually based almost exclusively upon competition and strife, would be replaced by relations of emulation for doing better, for collaboration, relations of real brotherhood.

The earth is certainly not ready to realize such an ideal, for mankind does not yet possess the necessary knowledge to understand and accept it or the indispensable conscious force to execute it. That is why I call it a dream.

Yet, this dream is on the way to becoming a reality. The achievement is indeed far from being perfect but it is progressive: little by little we advance towards our goal which we hope, one day we shall be able to hold up before the world as a practical and effective means of coming out of the present chaos in order to be borne into a more true, more harmonious new life. (August,1954) .

Auroville wants to be a universal township where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony, above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to realize human unity. (08.09.65)

Satellite image of Matrimandir (Google Earth)

...The spirit of Auroville in the earth's atmosphere ... is unity through the harmony of complexity, each thing in its place.. (25.10.67)

The Auroville Charter :

1. Auroville belongs to nobody in particular. Auroville belongs to humanity as a whole.

2. Auroville will be the place of an unending education, of constant progress, and a youth that never ages.

3. 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 realizations.

4. Auroville will be a site of material and spiritual researches for a living embodiment of an actual Human Unity. (28.02.68)

Earth needs a place where human beings, freed from all slavery to the past, can devote themselves wholly to the discovery and practice of the Divine Consciousness that is seeking to manifest.

Auroville wants to be this place and offers itself to all who aspire to live the Truth of tomorrow. (20.09.1969)

16.08.71. The Mother had made a sketch of the new symbol of Auroville and gave the explanation of its meaning :

"The dot at the canter represents Unity, the Supreme;

the inner circle represents the creation, the conception of the City;

the petals represent the power of expression, realization."

Auroville wants to be the first realization of human unity based on the teaching of

Sri Aurobindo, where men of all countries would be at home.

January,1972. The Mother.