Issue Nº436 – In Memoriam

Anne Goldsmith, previously of Surrender Community, passed away peacefully on 23 October, shortly after her 87th birthday in Clitheroe, England. She was an active member of the community for many years until her return to England in 2008 to care for her elderly parents.

Roy, who passed away in Auroville on 6 November 2025 at the age of 76, came to Auroville from the USA in 1971. Roy had learned about Auroville when seeing an image of the Galaxy in a bookshop in New York. He was in search of a spiritual community after experiencing a higher, non-mental state. He found a yoga teacher who knew about Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. In the Lama Foundation community in New Mexico he also met someone who had been to Pondicherry and visited the Ashram. 

Roy would have liked to stay in the Ashram, where he had met the Mother, but being advised to go to Auroville, he arrived in the Silence community, where he met Constance, Iris, Jocelyn, Daniel, Jaap, Diane and others who were creating a community near Kottakarai village.