In memoriam - Lucas Posada

On October 13th, Colombian Lucas Posada arrived with his 10-year old son Salvador in Chennai to start his Newcomer year in Auroville. His wife Gloria and their 14-year old daughter Gaia would follow a month later. During the night journey to Auroville, their taxi collided with a trailer. They were taken to JIPMER hospital where Lucas was diagnosed with multiple injuries. The son was in shock but recovered when his mother arrived 24 hours later.

During two weeks in ICU, while inwardly working on himself and receiving good energies and prayers from many friends, Lucas seemed to make promising progress and was moved to a private room, flourishing in the care extended to him. But on the morning of October 31st, he suffered a cardiac arrest and passed away. He was 60 years old.

Lucas had been searching all his life, travelling the world as a teacher and artist. A few days before his passing, he mentioned in a voice message to those who had been supporting him in their prayers, “I want to send to all those people that have been

sending love and all those beautiful caring intentions…, I am so grateful, my family is so grateful…, this is precisely the reason that I always knew that I wanted to be in Auroville… I am very very grateful to everyone…”

Lucas’s remains were buried at the Auroville burial ground on November 5th. In his remembrance, an exhibition of his paintings was held at the Kala Kendra Art Gallery