Auroville's monthly news magazine since 1988

Georges Van Vrekhem

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How to live

Cover - How to Live: Mother’s Advice given in Questions and Answers

The seven volumes of The Mother’s Entretiens (Questions and Answers) are a treasure trove. They cover a wide range of topics in considerable depth, giving us a glimpse not only of Sri Aurobindo’s and The Mother’s vision of life and the future of humanity, but also providing many answers to questions on how to live one’s life and follow the spiritual path.

A new world is born

The Mother giving Terrace Darshan on the Golden Day of 29.2

The 29th February, 2024 will be the 17th ‘Golden Day’. The first one was celebrated on 29th February, 1960. An English visitor, Dick Batstone, described how the dominant colour in the Ashram compound that day was gold: Mother was dressed in gold, she stood on a gold silk cloth, her balcony was hung with golden embroidered satin, and even the flowers in the courtyard were gold.

Death doesn’t exist

Cover - Death doesn't exist

Last year Prisma released a second edition of their 2015 compilation on the theme of death. As its title indicates this includes the ‘death of death’, exploring Sri Aurobindo’s passing and his journey into the unconscious and Mother’s grappling with the transformation of death.

The Mother and Japan

Self-portrait by The Mother published in a Japanese Newspaper

The Mother’s stay in Japan between 1916–1920 was not only of profound importance for her spiritual explorations, but might also have had a big influence upon the development of Auroville.

What is the Matrimandir?

"Let the Matrimandir be the living symbol of Auroville's aspiration for the Divine"

Let the Matrimandir be the living symbol of Auroville’s aspiration for the Divine. - The Mother In the 300-page book What is the Matrimandir: the most mysterious monument of modern times, author Iris Gaartz presents the personal experiences of 31 residents and guests of Auroville in visiting this building.

Ideal cities and Auroville

Sketch of layout of The City of the Sun

Auroville can be seen as the latest in a chain of ideal city experiments stretching back thousands of years.

Let’s Quave! Where? Down to Yahoo Land, where else!*

p4 A "Fair" likeness of Johnny

Last School, that hotbed of a bright new wave of young Aurovilians destined, come the year 2001, to take our citadel by storm, was the site, in this pleasant month of December, of two events worth noting: India Week, and the third annual Last School Fair.