Written May 2023
A meditation on the dream, adventure, joy – and the current destruction happening today in Auroville.
Written May 2023
I was graced in this lifetime to be called on the Great Adventure. At the age of 20 I left family and country behind, to embark, without questioning, on a journey.
Sri Aurobindo and Mother have given me a Certainty that is beyond comprehension … The happiness and joy that is there, knowing that I’m being held in their arms, is expressed with infinite gratitude each day I wake up.
If Auroville becomes an institution governed by people that have not chosen to Live here (and so can’t understand Auroville in its entirety) people that are perhaps stuck in the past, in the old idea of Religion, imposing a mechanical, fabricated, artificial discipline on the collectivity…then the Auroville that was flourishing will wither.
We owe it to the Future to preserve and protect Auroville from Destructive forces … because this is what I have witnessed in the last year and a half. Wanton Destruction, devoid of Beauty and kindness, devoid even of Common Sense.
The destruction that I see, I hope it will awaken in us the wish to become better human beings … less greedy, less stubborn, less competitive … so that we can really build together the Auroville Sri Aurobindo and Mother intended.
A Dream that runs in our veins and is a flame in our heart, no matter where on this big planet we are … no matter what our belief system is.
The Ideal of Auroville is the Ideal of Sri Aurobindo and Mother for the entire world.
By Sara Sponza
“We do not belong to the past dawns, but to the noons of the future.”
Sri Aurobindo – Essays on the Gita
“A divine force shall flow through tissue and cell
And take the charge of breath and speech and act
And all the thoughts shall be a glow of suns
And every feeling a celestial thrill.
Often a lustrous inner dawn shall come
Lighting the chambers of the slumbering mind;
A sudden bliss shall run through every limb
And Nature with a mightier Presence fill.
Thus shall the earth open to divinity
And common natures feel the wide uplift,
Illumine common acts with the Spirit’s ray
And meet the deity in common things.
Nature shall live to manifest secret God,
The Spirit shall take up the human play,
This earthly life become the life divine.”
Sri Aurobindo – Savitri