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अाधा
EXTRAORDINARY
भाग III—खण 4
PART III—Section 4
ाजधा ाज
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
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अजधचू ा
आज, 12 , 2024
ा..ं एए/1-4/2023.—ा बड, े य ा अु आज जठा अजधजय, 1988
(1988 ा 54) ी धाा 32 दाा त जयो ा यग हए जमजजख जजय बाा ै, अाड्:-
1. जं प ा औ ांभ—(1) इ जयो ा ंजप ा आज जठा (ायड जज चय जए
फ ड) जजय, 2024 ै ।
(2) य ा े उ ा ी ाख ृत ोग ।
2. रभााए—ं (1) इ जजयो े, ब क ंभड अनया अज ,--
() “अजधजय” आज जठा अजधजय, 1988 (1988 ा 54) अजभ ै;
(ख) “जाजयो ा जसट” अजधजय ी धाा 18 ी उधाा (1) अध खा ा ाा
जाजयो ा जसट अजभ ै;
(ग) "जा" ई वजि अजभ ै, ज ा जाजयो जसट े ड कया गया ै;
(घ) “जय” आज जषा जय, 1997 अजभ ै;
(ङ) “चय कया जज” अजधजय ी धाा 16 ी उधाा (1) अध गठ सवंत और
सथायी मिम अमपे है।
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(2) औ , इ य यु ै औ ा , क अय औ य
ा ै, ा अ ा, उा : अय औ य ै ।
3. य कया ा ठ—(1) ा , ाय ी ाां आं
ा औ इ ा ा ाां ा ा ा ाय ां वय
ी “य कया ” यु ा, ाय सय सं औ याय य
ु करेगी ।
(2) य कया ए य अ ाा ा ंवा ी कया य
।
(3) आ षा ाय, य कया ाय ाया ा ा ।
(4) ा , ाय ी ाां ां ा उ सय सा
ए, अ या या कया या क औ ा , य कया
सय ै, सय ा य ा ।
(5) ा उ ा य कया क व ा ु ा
अा ा यक ऐ क सय ाय ाप ।
(6) ाय य ए कया ू ा् दा ाय ा घ कया
ाएा ।
4. य कया ृय—(1) य कया ृ य—
() य कया ा ु ा या ाय ी ा ाा ुझाए ए ए ं
ा ा औ उां ा सा ा, यक अ औ उ ी ए
ाय ी ा;
() ु क ऑ आय ए ा का ि 1 या रि
इ ा स ा इछु अ आ ा आा ;
() य कया सं औ ंा ।
(2) य कया य कया सा ा ु य म बंुओ धया
, अा्: —
() सा य कया ा, ाा, -ा, ाा, सय ी ा
ु औ ऑ आो ा ा ;
() सा य कया ऑ ए ऐ ाा ढाा ा ु
ि 1 रि ाा, ऑ ंसा ाा कए ए ां औ ा ा
ठा ा ा ;
() सा आयु, बं औ न ायाओ ी याप सु ु ा;
(घ) ु क यां ाय सय ए य ा ए अं ं ।
5. ाय ा ए सया ां- अभय ाय ी ा ा ,
म ां ूा ा, अा्: -
() ा ा औ ं ां ी यू अ य ाय स ि
कया या ;
() ू- , अय, य, य, साय आ, ाू औ आ ा ा ा
य-य ाा ाा ा कए ा ै;
() सय ूा उ ा;
(घ) ए अ ए ाय ा ा औ अ ए अ ाप
ा् ुः आ ा ।
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6. य कया सा अं ा - () य कया ाा या ी ु य
कया, ाय ी ा कया ए ऑ ाउं ी ाइ अ ी ाए ;
() अ कए ए सा य कया ाा य कया सा ं
;
() ा अ कया सु ए सा अ ी ा क
ी अु ाए ;
(घ) ुा कया ाय ाप य ा औ इ ऑ
ाउं ी ाइ य अ कया ा, ाय ी ा
कया ी अं ा क अा अ ;
(ङ) य कया य कया अं औ ाय ी ा औ ा
सु ;
() ा ाा य अुक सा इ अु ा् ा क ी
अ ऑ ाउं ी ाइ अ कया ाएा औ य ुं ा
ा, क उ न ा रि ।
ॉ. यं ए. ,
[ा-III/4/अा./691/2023-24]
ि 1
अबं औ ाा उ
ऑाउं (ाय ा य ए ा)
य 2023
I. ााय उ
1. अबं ाा ां
15 अस, 1947 सं ा ा क । य उ ए ए ुा यु अं, ए ए यु ी ुआ ा
। क इ अ ा ै औ ए सं ा ाय ै, ू ुया
ए, ाा ा, ाा, ांसृ औ आधया य ए ए ए यु उा ए
ू ा ।
15 अस ा अा क औ य साा ए ंुिाय क इ इ ा
ा ाए ा। ै इ ंय ए ंय , ल कव ी सृ औ ु ा हं
उ ाय ा ा ा ा ै ु कया ा, इ ू ी ुआ
। ास , इ क ै -आं ा हं ै अ ा ूा ी
उ ी , ाांक अवा ी , ू या उ ास
। इ आं सं ा अछ ए ूा ा ा औ ए अ सा ा ।
इ ा ए ांा आं ा ए सं औ एु ा ा ा ा। ा आ सं
क उ एा ा ी । ए य ऐा ा ा क ु ाय य
अ-अ ाय ी अाा ा ाए। क ाय अ य ं ा क य ा
ाएा औ ए ा औ ा ा, ाांक अ ए ू ंघ सा कया ाएा। इ अाा,
ंा ा ी ुा ठ य ं ा कया क ो ी सया ा क ा या
ा ी ाए। क बंुओ औ ुा ुाा ांाय ा अ साय ा
ा या । य आा ी ा ाए क इ सा थय ा ए या ए असाय
अ ु छ सा कया ाएा। यक अ य ा , ा ं ा ,
यां क अं ा : ा ंघ ा ं ा , यां क ए या आ औ
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य ं । ा ा आं ा औ ृ ा , ा उी स
, उा ाय ा या यां क ा ा ।
य ा ाए; ा ाा ाए। आइए आा ै क य साा ा , ां
औ ांसय ी आया ी ढ ाया , ल ााय ाा ी आया , ााय ाा
अभया औ उ उय ए ा ा । इ एा अंः क आ -
वाा ा क ा । क क , क , ा
ू कया ाा ाए; एा ा ी ा ाए, यक य ा य ी ाा ए आय ।
ए औ ा एया ुा औ ु औ ा भया ी उी ा ूा उी
ा ए ा। एया ा उय आ ; स अ ाी सं ै या इ य ु ै: इ अय अ
य या आं य ा संा ी का ंघ ै, उ ु ै। ा ा
कया ाा औ य आ या कया ाएा। ां ा अ ूा ा औ उ इ ए ऊा
औ ा ा ा ु कया उी ंााओ ा औ ा ी सा
ा ।
ा ा ए -ंघ ा ा ा ए ए , उज औ ा ा ा आा
ा। ा ुया ा एी ा ; ए अू ा ंठ क स ठाइय ा ंघ
। क ां औ इ अाय ढा औ ा ाए। यां ा ए ु ूा
ा ु औ यक उ ाा ा थय औ ाा
ंााओ , ल य औ इ ा , उी उस ए औ
औ ए ा औ ा अं । ए ा स औ
कया ा ा उ ा या ि , क क अं ा । एी ए ृ ी
आया , ए अाय आं । ा ए इी आया सि , यक इ ा छ ा ी
संा क औ औ ा ा ा अु ा
। इए एी , औ ाय अा औ ूाू सा इ ै;
क य ृ औ य इछा ी आया ा ा ए ै। क ए ा
आा याप ; ए अंाय ाा औ ृि ा ाए, अंाय औ ंसा
का ा ाए, ाय या य ाा, ाूझ आा-ा या ंसृ य सछ ंय
ा। ाा ु ूा या ा औ अा उा कया ा औ अ इ आ-
ं औ अ ृि ी अना ा अं ाएा। एा ी ए ाा ा ा
।
ए औ ा, ुया ा ा आधया उा ु ुा । ा ी आधयाा यू औ
अा ाा ढ । य आं ढा; उ य ी आाओ अ अ आं आा ा
उी ु ै औ उी ाओ ए, ल उ ा औ आधया अभया ए
ए ढा आ ाा ।
अं ा ा ए ा ुय ए उच औ ा ाएा औ उ सयाओ ा
ाा ु ा उ ा औ ा कया यक उ ा ा ु कया ा औ
व ूा औ ए ू ा ा ा ा ा। य अ ए व आा औ ए ा , ए
आ ा औ अा का ाा ु कया । ास आ ा ठाइयां
क अय या ी ुा अ ै, क ठाइय ू ए ाया या ा औ यक
च इछा , उ ू कया ाएा। यां , यक य ा ा , यक इ आा औ आं ा
ा ाधय आ ढा ाए, ा आ औ, ाांक ाया ा ा ाए,
य आं उा ा ।
ा ी ु ी इ ा ै ऐ य-सु सु ी ; य आा ां उ या , य ए औ
सं ा ा ।
अबं, आा ट
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2. ााा ए ा
ृथ ए ऐा सा ा ाए ा अा ा , ां ाा
ुय, ी ं आांा , ुया ा सं औ ए अा ा ा
, क च य ; ां, ांसय औ ा ा ए सा ां ुय ी ी ृत ा उय
ुय य ाप ए कया ाएा।
उ ु औ ु ा, उी य औ अाा ाू ा ए, उी ाओ औ अाओ
य ाप ए; ए ऐा सा ां आा ी औ ी बंा इछाओ औ ुू ी ंुि,
आं औ आं ी ाा ाए। इ सा , च अ आाओ ा ं ए ा
अन ढ औ ; ा ा उत या ा औ ाप ए
ाए, ल ूा ंाय ृ औ ए ा ए ाए। इ सा , उाय
औ ा औ ंठ अ ाा सा कया ाएा; य ी ा आयाओ
ा ा कया ाएा, औ ााय ंठ , औ आधया षा ु औ
य ृ ल व औ ाय ृ व ी ाए।ौय अ ा ,
ा, ूा, ं, ाय ए ा ु ा; इ ा आं ाझा
ी ा य ी ाओ ाा , क ाा या तय स ाा। यक इ आ
सा अ ंु सा ा; व ूलय ा औ ाा स ी ुा अ
ा। ां, ा क या ा ए ा ा, ल अ आ व औ ू
ुाय ी ा ए अ ाओ औ ंााओ ा ए ा ा, अ स
ए, य व ा औ ाय ए ा ा। ं , य ए ऐ ां ा ंं,
आ सा औ ंघ आा ै, अछा , य औ ास
ाा ंं ाा सा कया ाएा।
ृथ ऐ आ ाा ए या , यक ा ा ा अ इ झ
औ अा ए याप ा औ इ ाक ए अाय ; य ा
क ै इ ए ा ा हं।
औ क य ा ासा ी ा ; य ए अबं आ , छ
ा , ा ा अुा या ै। एा ू ू , क य
; ा-ा अ य ी ढ ै, आा ै क ए क ुया
ा अाा उ ए ए वाा औ ा ै,
ए ए ए अ ांसयू औ ा ।
, ु, अस, 1954 लयूए,
ऑ एु , ॉलयू -12, ए-ड।
3. ऑा
1) ऑ क ंं । ऑ ू ाा ंं । क ऑ
ए कव ा ा इछु ा ाए।
2) ऑ ए अं ा, ं औ ए युा ा सा ा ूढा ा ।
3) ऑ अ औ य ु ा ाा ।
ा औ ा ा उठा ए, ऑ ाू य ी ापय ी ढा।
4) ऑ ए ास ा एा अा ए औ आधया ा ए स ा।
, 28,1968
CWMCE, ऑ , ं-13, उय औ ां
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4. ऑए ए ऑय सयांए
1) आया य ा ए आं क ाा, , ांसृ , सय औ
ंाु का छ ास या ।
ए सं, ा औ ा ाा व , ा ी ा ा औ
ऑ ा अस औ ा ा कय ा ाए।
2) औ ाा ंाओ ु ए ऑ ा ; क य संा
अंा ए, उी इछाओ औ ाांाओ ए ए ाा ाए। क ी
इछाओ ी ू आं ा ू उाा ी ां औ ाा
ाप ी ा ।
3) ऑय व ी ाा ाए। ंा ा ा ए, ा
औ ा ाय ए अाय , उ उ सा अुा ा ा ा ाा
ा ा ाए।
ा अ अ आं अस ं ै, उा ा कए
ा ै।
4) ा, यां क ुअ ा, आं ए ु छ अाय । यक ा ा , यक
अ ा ा ाा , ा ाा ा। ा अ
ाधय ा ा ा वस ा अछा । अ ा वसा सा
सयं वसा ा ।
क अ ा औ ृ य अुा , ल ए ंठ आं ा
अुा वस ा ाए, यक यक उच ा यं अ कए
ा ा , य ं औ अवं ाा । य इ अ क ा य ा ा
क ा ा क उय ा ।
5) ू ृथ ाय आ ए ु या ा ाए, औ ऑ इ आ
ए ा ा ाा ।
6) ा-ा य ा ा ाएा क य ा या ाए, औ इ
अछा ा य क ु ू ।
, 13 ू, 1970
CWMCE, ा , ं -13, य औ ां
5. ऑ ां, ा, ंु, एा ी का ए या ।
ऑ ा, 20.9.1969
II. ं ठ ।
1. ै'' "ा ा " ा ए छा ा ा ा ै ंघ या ुाय ा ा
ी । ै ा आा ुाय ाा। ै आा आा ए ुाय ाा हं औ आा ी एा
ा ाा हं। (...)
आ ाय ूछ क ंघ ी या आया ? ुझ ु औ । ए ाएं, उ
ा एा । य , क य चा ा ए । ाा वाय ाा आा
ा ; ा । आा औ ा, ा आं । य
या , औ ा औ ी ाा ाया ा ूलय । ी ाा आया
ी ाा कया । क ा ा ा
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7. श: आ ऑ ए ा ा ंठ ा ै?
ए ं ाा ए : ए कव अाा। क ुया झ। ु अ ा
अस ा ाए औ य औ ाू ा ु वस ा
ाए - य आ । इ ए, क अ ा अस ं ा ाए, क इ ाा
कया ाा ाए औ अंा ा अा औ ा ाय ाा ाए।
, एा, 28 कं, 1972
8. ऑ ा ए ए ; ऑ औ ऑ ायाय ा ी
ा ाए।
, ऑ ऑ, 15 , 1973
9. ऑ ाा, ा औ ा य ी ा ा ाए
ा। ऑ ां, ाा औ ा ी का या ।
, ऑ ऑ, 20 ं, 1966
10. ी अू औ अू ासाओ यं औ ी अु ाय
ा ढ ा ाा यं ा या ा ा ए ि ं । क
उ ू ा आएा यं या ु ा , ाा ा
सयं ए ं औ ए ा , आा, आं अस, औ ा आ-ू ी
आया ी ढ ऊं ा औ ा ए ए सं अ ा ए। य ास, ाा
संा ा ां आय ा ा ा ा।
अबं, ा , ृष 626
11. आ ा ै क ऑ ए आए ै... ा ाय, अा य ा औ
ाएं! ुझ ै। उा ूा ा अंा उा ुुा ए, । या आ
उ ा ?
: । ुझ क ुझ"ुा" ै! उ ा ु क ी ा स
या - यां क ा ा ! औ उ ए, ए युस ं ाा व (
ा एा ी ऊा औ ), ा : उ ुझ ा, य ए क क ऐ
ा ा "ु ां" ा! ... ै उ य ा कया (ा
अा ौ ): "ऑ ाा, ा औ ा ा य ी ा ा
ाए। ै उ ा ाई (ा ा ंा ा इाा ), क इ ऊ, ै इ थय
कया क ा ा ा ा! औ य ा । यक उ ुझ ा क उ
ए य ू ा क ां ा ा ाए " क ु छ ाा। ै उ
ा ा कया, "आ ा क ु छ ा ? क ै ु छ ा।
, एा, 13 अस, 1966
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[ा III—ण 4] ा ा ा : अाा 9
12. ऑ ए ा ा ाा ां ु औ ाएं ं,
ा औ ायाओ ऊ ां औ ा ै। ऑ ा उय ा
एा ाा ा ।
, 8 ं, 1965
13. एं ा ूछा ा: "ऑ ा ा ंठ ा ा?
( ट ि) ा । ए ाा , य ी ए
ाा कया ाएा, ा ृ (क ा ए) ा ाा कया
ाएा, अ ाा ै, ा चा ा । य यां उा औ ा
ा। आयाओ अुा य उन ाए। -आं ा ए ास औ
ी आया , ाक ा छ । य ए ा , । य ा
आ ु ा। य य ा ा ा ाए।
, आ अाा (ऑस ी ाइ); . ॉलयू 8/2, .
15. फ़ । ु ाा अं अुा
14. यक ा ा ( ा ), यक , ाय
(य ाय ा) उ ा ा ए छ ंखया ै– ा औ आठ य
ा ा, ु छ इ : ा, ा या आठ - ए छ ंखया ु । " ा यु" "ु" अ
ू : उ ा ए अंा ा ाए ा । (वाा ृि इ ु छ
यां , क य ाया: ाा या ाया ी ुा चा ा ।
धयस अ ा ए ै: ं, अा , ं, ू - य ू । ूा अ
अ ाा ा ू ा , ा ... इ या ै? ां? (क ं ा ,
अ ा ा ाय । इ इी ू अा ा ा कया ।
ा, ा ा एा, 10 अ, 1968
15. ंठ ी े- ए आय ए (य "ा ए ," य वस ए
) - ए आय ी े य ाए: औ इछाएं , अ ााएं , आ
, औ - ए ए आ ाा। ाा, ा , क य ा
ा ाा : ां अंा , ए य ा । औ क, सयं
उ स ै, य झ ै क ूा इ या । ा , ा ंठ इ आा ै:
ृया थय ( ए झूठ ), ा ी ाय (ए औ झूठ), औ ाा, ए ा झूठ ! (ा ं
) इए।।।
ा, ा ा एा, 25 ा, 1970
16. सया ा ए : ा , ऐ ाए... ा
ा, ा , अया ... ां ए व ा , इा क व ा अ
- ै क ा ै, य या ! (ा ...)
अ ााय ा , ुय क अा ा ै, ा का य ,
अ इा उय क ऐ व ाा कया ाा ा ै क अ ा स ै। ू ,
ा अा ू य ए, इ इ ु, औ अंा ा ाए
क इ ूलय य ु ा । ा च याय ी ू झ ,
ा कए ा अा ा ाा ा । ै ा हं क "ुा" ुया ा ा ाए,
ै ए ा ृि ा हं, ल ए आधया ृि ा हं। ा न
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ै ै; य य ा । क ता ठ ु ी ाा स , उ उ
ा ाए य ू कया औ च अाा अय इछा ।
ा, ा ा एा, 17 ं, 1959
AUROVILLE FOUNDATION
NOTIFICATION
Auroville, the 12th January, 2024
F.No.AF/1-4/2023.—In exercise of the powers conferred by section 32 of the Auroville Foundation Act,
1988 (54 of 1988), the Governing Board, with the approval of the Central Government, hereby makes the following
regulations, namely:—
1. Short title and commencement.–(1) These regulations may be called the Auroville Foundation (Framework for
Selection of Working Committee) Regulations, 2024.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2. Definitions. – (1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,–
(a) Act” means the Auroville Foundation Act, 1988 (54 of 1988);
(b) “register of residents” means the register of residents maintained under sub-section (1) of section 18 of the
Act;
(c) “resident” means an individual whose name has been entered in the register of residents;
(d) “rules” means the Auroville Foundation Rules, 1997;
(e) “Selection Process Committee” means an independent and permanent committee constituted under sub- section (1) of ”
(f) section 16 of the Act;
(2) Words and expressions used herein and not defined, but defined in the Act or the rules, shall have the meanings
respectively assigned to them in the said Act or the rules.
3. Constitution of a Selection Process Committee. –(1)The Governing Board, after a call for nominations from the
Residents Assembly and from the nominations thus received, shall appoint a panel of five persons from amongst
the residents, having expertise in the field of administration, as the “Selection Process Committee” to ensure free
and fair selection of Members to the Working Committee.
(2) The Selection Process Committee may, by unanimous decision, regulate the procedure for transaction of its
business.
(3) The Auroville Foundation Secretariat shall provide secretarial assistance to the Selection Process Committee.
(4) The Governing Board, after a call for nominations from the Residents Assembly, shall select members to
replace those who either resign from their position or for any other reason cease to be members of the
Selection Process Committee.
(5) The Governing Board shall have the authority to review the continuation of a person in the Selection Process
Committee in case of any complaint received against any member of such Committee.
(6) The extant Working Committee shall be dissolved after the selection process for Working Committee is
completed.
4. Functions of Selection Process Committee. – (1)The functions of the Selection Process Committee is to–
(a) review the extant selection process or consider new amendment suggested by the Residents Assembly and
propose for modifications, if required, and place it before the Residents Assembly for feedback;
(b) ensure that the Mother’s guidelines for organisers in Auroville which is the basis for the conduct expected of
those who wish to serve in this administrative position as specified in Appendix 1;
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(c) conduct the selection process in a free and fair manner.
(2) The Selection Process Committee shall take into consideration the following points while reviewing the proposal
of the selection process, namely:–
(a) that the proposed selection process ensures fairness, transparency, non-discrimination, inclusiveness,
competence of members and adheres to the ideals of Auroville;
(b) that the proposed selection process ensures to foster a climate in Auroville that strictly adheres to the
principles and guidance of Auroville’s organisation given by the Mother as specified in Appendix 1;
(c) ensure a good representation of age, gender and different nationalities into the proposal;
(d) ensure that there is an inbuilt mechanism of regular training to the members of the Working Committee.
5. Membership criteria to serve in Working Committee. –The candidate who wishes to serve in the Working
Committee shall fulfill the following criteria, namely:–
(a) he shall be a resident and have been entered in the Register of Residents for a minimum period of five
consecutive years;
(b) he shall comply with the laws of the land, the Act, rules, regulations, standing orders, statutes and orders as
may be issued by the Competent Authority from time to time;
(c) he shall be available full-time as a member;
(d) he shall serve in the Working Committee for one term and he may re-apply after a lapse of next one term.
6. Finalisation of selection process document.– (a) The reviewed selection process prepared by the Selection
Process Committee, shall be uploaded on the Auroville Foundation website for feedback from the Residents
Assembly;
(b) The uploaded document shall include the proposed amendments of the selection process by the Selection
Process Committee;
(c) The residents shall be allowed fourteen days from the date of uploading of document to submit their
feedback;
(d) The Selection Process Committee shall consider the comments received from the residents and upload the
same on the Auroville Foundation website, along with its response on the comments, not later than fourteen
days after the final date of feedback from the Residents Assembly;
(e) The Selection Process Committee shall finalise the selection process method and submit to the Residents
Assembly and the Governing Board;
(f) The duly approved document by the Governing Board shall be uploaded on the website of Auroville
Foundation within a period of seven days after it is approved and it shall be immediately effective, unless a
different date is specified therein.
Dr. JAYANTI S. RAVI, Secy.
[ADVT.-III/4/Exty./691/2023-24]
Appendix 1
Quotes from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother supporting Auroville Foundation (Framework for the selection of
Working Committee) Regulations, 2023
I. GENERAL QUOTES
1. The Five Dreams by Sri Aurobindo
August 15th, 1947 is the birthday of free India. It marks for her the end of an old era, the beginning of a new age. But
we can also make it by our life and acts as a free nation an important date in a new age opening for the whole world,
for the political, social, cultural, and spiritual future of humanity.
August 15th is my own birthday and it is naturally gratifying to me that it should have assumed this vast significance.
I take this coincidence, not as a fortuitous accident, but as the sanction and seal of the Divine Force that guides my
steps on the work with which I began life, the beginning of its full fruition. Indeed, on this day I can watch almost all
the world- movements which I hoped to see fulfilled in my lifetime, though then they looked like impracticable
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dreams, arriving at fruition or on their way to achievement. In all these movements free India may well play a large
part and take a leading position.
The first of these dreams was a revolutionary movement which would create a free and united India. India today is
free but she has not achieved unity. At one moment it almost seemed as if in the very act of liberation, she would fall
back into the chaos of separate States which preceded the British conquest. But fortunately, it now seems probable that
this danger will be averted and a large and powerful, though not yet a complete union will be established. Also, the
wisely drastic policy of the Constituent Assembly has made it probable that the problem of the depressed classes will
be solved without schism or fissure. But the old communal division into Hindus and Muslims seems now to have
hardened into a permanent political division of the country. It is to be hoped that this settled fact will not be accepted
as settled for ever or as anything more than a temporary expedient. For if it lasts, India may be seriously weakened,
even crippled: civil strife may remain always possible, possible even a new invasion and foreign conquest. India's
internal development and prosperity may be impeded, her position among the nations weakened, her destiny impaired
or even frustrated.
This must not be; the partition must go. Let us hope that that may come about naturally, by an increasing recognition
of the necessity not only of peace and concord but of common action, by the practice of common action and the
creation of means for that purpose. In this way unity may finally come about under whatever form — the exact form
may have a pragmatic but not a fundamental importance. But by whatever means, in whatever way, the division must
go; unity must and will be achieved, for it is necessary for the greatness of India's future.
Another dream was for the resurgence and liberation of the peoples of Asia and her return to her great role in the
progress of human civilisation. Asia has arisen; large parts are now quite free or are at this moment being liberated: its
other still subject or partly subject parts are moving through whatever struggles towards freedom. Only a little has to
be done and that will be done today or tomorrow. There India has her part to play and has begun to play it with an
energy and ability which already indicate the measure of her possibilities and the place she can take in the council of
the nations.
The third dream was a world-union forming the outer basis of a fairer, brighter, and nobler life for all mankind. That
unification of the human world is under way; there is an imperfect initiation organised but struggling against
tremendous difficulties. But the momentum is there and it must inevitably increase and conquer. Here too India has
begun to play a prominent part and, if she can develop that larger statesmanship which is not limited by the present
facts and immediate possibilities but looks into the future and brings it nearer, her presence may make all the
difference between a slow and timid and a bold and swift development. A catastrophe may intervene and interrupt or
destroy what is being done, but even then the final result is sure. For unification is a necessity of Nature, an inevitable
movement. Its necessity for the nations is also clear, for without it the freedom of the small nations may be at any
moment in peril and the life even of the large and powerful nations insecure. The unification is therefore to the
interests of all, and only human imbecility and stupid selfishness can prevent it; but these cannot stand for ever against
the necessity of Nature and the Divine Will. But an outward basis is not enough; there must grow up an international
spirit and outlook, international forms and institutions must appear, perhaps such developments as dual or multilateral
citizenship, willed interchange or voluntary fusion of cultures. Nationalism will have fulfilled itself and lost its
militancy and would no longer find these things incompatible with self-preservation and the integrality of its outlook.
A new spirit of oneness will take hold of the human race.
Another dream, the spiritual gift of India to the world has already begun. India's spirituality is entering Europe and
America in an ever increasing measure. That movement will grow; amid the disasters of the time more and more eyes
are turning towards her with hope and there is even an increasing resort not only to her teachings, but to her psychic
and spiritual practice.
The final dream was a step in evolution which would raise man to a higher and larger consciousness and begin the
solution of the problems which have perplexed and vexed him since he first began to think and to dream of individual
perfection and a perfect society. This is still a personal hope and an idea, an ideal which has begun to take hold both in
India and in the West on forward-looking minds. The difficulties in the way are more formidable than in any other
field of endeavour, but difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
Here too, if this evolution is to take place, since it must proceed through a growth of the spirit and the inner
consciousness, the initiative can come from India and, although the scope must be universal, the central movement
may be hers.
Such is the content which I put into this date of India's liberation; whether or how far this hope will be justified
depends upon the new and free India.
Sri Aurobindo, Autobiographical Notes
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2. A DREAM BY THE MOTHER
There should be somewhere on 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; a place of peace, concord and harmony where all the fighting instincts of man would be used
exclusively to conquer the causes of his sufferings and miseries, to surmount his weaknesses and ignorance, to
triumph over his limitations and incapacities; a place where the needs of the spirit and the concern for progress would
take precedence over the satisfaction of desires and passions, the search for pleasure and material enjoyment. In this
place, children would be able to grow and develop integrally without losing contact with their souls; education would
be given not for passing examinations or obtaining certificates and posts but to enrich existing faculties and bring forth
new ones. In this place, titles and positions would be replaced by opportunities to serve and organise; the bodily needs
of each one would be equally provided for, and intellectual, moral, and spiritual superiority would be expressed in the
general organisation not by an increase in the pleasures and powers of life but by increased duties and responsibilities.
Beauty in all its artistic forms, painting, sculpture, music, literature, would be equally accessible to all; the ability to
share in the joy it brings would be limited only by the capacities of each one and not by social or financial position.
For in this ideal place money would no longer be the sovereign lord; individual worth would have a far greater
importance than that of material wealth and social standing. There, work would not be a way to earn one's living but a
way to express oneself and to develop one's capacities and possibilities while being of service to the community as a
whole, which, for its own part, would provide for each individual's subsistence and sphere of action. In short, it would
be a place where human relationships, which are normally based almost exclusively on competition and strife, would
be replaced by relationships of emulation in doing well, of collaboration and real brotherhood.
The earth is certainly not ready to realise such an ideal, for mankind does not yet possess sufficient knowledge to
understand and adopt it nor the conscious force that is indispensable in order to execute it; that is why I call it a dream.
And yet this dream is in the course of becoming a reality; that is what we are striving for in Sri Aurobindo's Ashram,
on a very small scale, in proportion to our limited means. The realisation is certainly far from perfect, but it is
progressive; little by little we are advancing towards our goal which we hope we may one day be able to present to the
world as a practical and effective way to emerge from the present chaos, to be born into a new life that is more
harmonious and true.
The Mother, Bulletin, August, 1954 CWMCE, On Education, Volume-12, A-Dream
3. AUROVILLE CHARTER
1) 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.
2) Auroville will be the place of an unending education, of constant progress, and a youth that never ages.
3) Auroville wants to be the bridge between the past and the future. Taking advantage of all discoveries from
without and from within, Auroville will boldly spring towards future realisations.
4) Auroville will be a site of material and spiritual researches for a living embodiment of an actual human unity.
The Mother, February 28,1968
CWMCE, Words of The Mother, Volume-13, Aims and Principles
4. TO BE A TRUE AUROVILIAN
Conditions to live in Auroville
1) The first necessity is the inner discovery in order to know what one truly is behind social, moral, cultural,
racial and hereditary appearances. At the centre there is a being free, vast and knowing, who awaits our discovery and
who ought to become the active centre of our being and our life in Auroville.
2) One lives in Auroville in order to be free from moral and social conventions; but this freedom must not be a
new slavery to the ego, to its desires and ambitions.
The fulfilment of one's desires bars the way to the inner discovery which can only be achieved in the peace and
transparency of perfect disinterestedness.
3) The Aurovilian should lose the sense of personal possession. For our passage in the material world, what is
indispensable to our life and to our action is put at our disposal according to the place we must occupy.
The more we are consciously in contact with our inner being, the more are the exact means given to us.
4) Work, even manual work, is something indispensable for the inner discovery. If one does not work, if one