Bharat Nivas : : Pavilion of India, Auroville

MOTHER & SRI AUROBINDO'S WRITINGS: EXTRACTS

"There should be somewhere upon earth a place which no nation could claim as its own, where all human beings of goodwill who have a sincere aspiration could live freely as citizens of the world and obey one single authority,that of the supreme Truth..."

Auroville belongs to nobody in particular. Auroville belongs to humanity as a whole. But to live in Auroville one must be the willing servitor of the Divine Consciousness...

"Spirituality is indeed the master-key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinite is native to it. India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight..."

“For three thousand years at least, — it is indeed much longer, — she has been creating abundantly and incessantly, lavishly, with an inexhaustible many-sidedness, republics and kingdoms and empires, philosophies and cosmogonies and sciences and creeds and arts and poems and all kinds of monuments, palaces and temples and public works, communities and societies and religious orders, laws and codes and rituals, physical sciences, psychic sciences, systems of Yoga, systems of politics and administration, arts spiritual, arts worldly, trades, industries, fine crafts..."

“The note of spirituality is dominant, initial, constant, always recurrent; it is the support of all the rest. The first age of India's greatness was a spiritual age when she sought passionately for the truth of existence through the intuitive mind and through an inner experience and interpretation both of the psychic and the physical existence..."

This work is three-fold :
“The recovery of the old spiritual knowledge and experience in all its splendour, depth and fullness is the first most essential work...

“.. .the clear vision: that same thing which, in the history of the universe, had made the earth the symbolic representation of the universe so as to be able to concentrate the work on one point...

The Human Aspiration: The earliest preoccupation of man in his awakened thoughts and , as it seems, his inevitable and ultimate preoccupation, – for it survives the longest periods of skepticism and returns after every banishment, – is also the highest which his thought can envisage...

"A living sense of human oneness and practice of human oneness in thought, feeling and life, the ideal which was expressed first some thousands of years ago in the ancient Vedic hymn must always remain the highest injunction of the Spirit within us to human life on earth" -Sri Aurobindo