In Memoriaum - Jan Pieter Derksen

On June 2nd, Jan Pieter passed away in the Netherlands after a period of illness.

Jan Pieter's connection with Sri Aurobindo, the Mother and Auroville goes back to the mid-seventies. In those days he stayed in one of the houses of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry and visited Auroville almost every day, as a guide, informing visitors about the Dream.

After his work in Pondicherry, Jan Pieter lived at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Delhi Branch, before joining Findhorn in Scotland. He then moved back to The Netherlands, and became a board member of Auroville International The Netherlands. During this period he translated parts of Sri Aurobindo’s The Synthesis of Yoga into Dutch.

Jan Pieter recently completed his Newcomers’ period and had taken up residence at Sunship. An illness prompted him to briefly go to The Netherlands, before returning to Auroville. This sadly was not to be.