Books about Auroville and its experiment in human unity: history, culture and reflections from the city of dawn founded by the Mother in 1968.

Mother and Sri Aurobindo’s Plans for Founding Auroville by Loretta Shartsis (Chinese-English)

Mother and Sri Aurobindo’s Plans
for Founding Auroville (Chinese-English)

本文内容整理自黎明之城居民洛雷塔(Loretta Shartsis)向“过渡学校(Transition School)”的孩子们做的一次分享。她在这次分享中谈到母亲和室利 · 阿罗频多是如何开创黎明之城的。

This is a talk by Aurovilian Loretta Shartsis to the children of Transition School, in which she talked about Mother and Sri Aurobindo’s plans for founding Auroville.

Book Details

作者/Author: Loretta Shartsis;
中文翻译/Chinese translation：清宁(Anandi Zhang);
校对Proofread by：艾千又(Ai Qianyou), 刘丽君(Liu Lijun)、石思宇(Nancy Shi)
Print Length: 60
Book format: Pdf
Language: Chinese and English
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Living India

Living India comes from a 24/7 experience of being pickled in the Indian culture, in the context of Auroville – the City of Dawn aspiring to live an actual human unity in diversity.

Living India, loving India – the essence of it and its countless eyes, names, faces, facets and flavours. Living it. Carrying it. Always.

Book Details

Author: Anandi Zhang
Print Length: 117
Publisher: Our Home (OH), under Auroville Art Service
Book format: Pdf
Language: English
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The English of Savitri (Volume 12)

The English of Savitri
volume 12

Like the previous volumes in the English of Savitri series, this one too is based on transcripts of classes held by the author at Savitri Bhavan, in this case from January 2014 to July 2014 and from July 2015 to October 2015. The transcripts have been carefully revised and edited for conciseness and clarity, while aiming to preserve the informal atmosphere of the course. This Twelfth Volume covers Book Six, The Book of Fate; Book Eight, The Book of Death and Book Nine, The Book of Eternal Night of Sri Aurobindo’s epic Savitri – A Legend and a Symbol. Each sentence of these cantos is examined closely, and explanations are given about vocabulary, sentence-structure and imagery. The aim is to assist understanding of the poem, which the Mother has characterised as ‘the supreme revelation of Sri Aurobindo’s vision.’

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Weave Lifelines

Weave Lifelines by Anandi Zhang

The poems in this collection are inspired by interactions and connections with fellow human beings in our interwoven tapestry of life. Each describes a specific person or a life situation and reflection; and yet each seems to carry something universal as well.

It is a starter of a lifelong, longer than life endeavour – to write a poem for each and every being that I encounter and embrace.
Then hopefully life will grow like a Poetree and we can savour the Poetea:-)

Book Details

Author: Anandi Zhang
Print Length: 130
Publisher: Our Home (OH), under Auroville Art Service
Book format: Pdf, ePub
Language: English
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光之游戏（一）LightGame I

光之游戏（一）LightGame I

This booklet is based on the tri-lingual (English, French and German) version of LightGame I published in 1977 by AUROPUBLICATIONS, Auroville, India.
这本小书《光之游戏（一）》是根据1977年印度黎明之城AUROPUBLICATIONS出版的三语版（英、法、德语）LightGame I翻译而成。

The author and the illustrator of the tri-lingual version are anonymous.
三语版的作者和插画师匿名。

Illustrations in this book come from the tri-lingual version.
本书中的插画来自三语版。

Book Details

Author: Anonymous
Print Length: 43
Translated by: Anandi
Book format: Pdf
Language: English and Chinese
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Sri Aurobindo: The Grand Synthesis

Sri Aurobindo: The Grand Synthesis

On November 3rd, Dr. Ananda Reddy released his new book Sri Aurobindo: The Grand Synthesis at a function at Auroville’s Unity Pavilion in the presence of the Vice Chancellor of the Pondicherry University Prof. Gurmeet Singh and the Secretary of the Auroville Foundation Dr. Jayanti Ravi. The book is dedicated to Sri Aurobindo on the occasion of his 150th birth anniversary.

The book is divided into two parts. In part one, Ananda highlights the turning points in Sri Aurobindo’s life and explains why he considers Sri Aurobindo to be the guiding spirit of humanity. In the chapter Sri Aurobindo: The Future, he comments on each of the five dreams of Sri Aurobindo, given as a message for the 15th of August 1947 on the occasion of India’s independence. Read more

LIGHTGAME I

LIGHTGAME I

It is a very precious “story” book for children of all ages, introducing a practice that can start young and at any age. This tri-lingual (English, French and German) version of LightGame I was published in 1977 by AUROPUBLICATIONS, Auroville, India. The publishing house AUROPUBLICATIONS no longer exists in Auroville, and the book is out of print. The author and the illustrator remain anonymous. A copy of it was found at the Free Store bookshelf in Auroville.

Book Details

Author: Anonymous
Print Length: 41
Publisher: AUROPUBLICATIONS, Auroville, India
Submitted by: Anandi
Book format: Pdf
Language: English, French and German
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Building a ‘New Earth’

Building a ‘New Earth’

Every so often a story comes along that captures the spirit of Auroville in a unique way, bringing to light aspects of its deeper purpose of transforming the world we live in to create a spiritualized life on our planet. ‘New Earth’ is one such story, captured in a colourful coffee table book with hundreds of vivid flower mandala images accompanied by a few short texts. Conceived and photographed by Avigal Lemberger, the book is intended as a meditative opening to the language and significance of flowers and mandalas.

The New Earth story started on October 13, 1972 when Auroculture brought an all-flower compost to The Mother who “put her lovely hands on it and meditated on it.” This original batch has been constantly added to, and taken from, in a homeopathic manner, so that a direct link back to Mother’s first touch and concentration remains. Before her passing, Auroculture designated Avigal to follow in her footsteps with the work of creating this ‘New Earth’. Read more

Crossroad: A New Humanity

Crossroad: A New Humanity

Paulette has published an interesting new compilation in celebration of Sri Aurobindo’s 150th birth anniversary. ‘Crossroad: A New Humanity’ contains extracts from “The Human Cycle”, “The Ideal of Human Unity” and “War and Self Determination”.

After examining the transition from the infrarational to rational, subjective and, ultimately, the spiritual age, along with the corresponding societal changes, the focus shifts to Sri Aurobindo’s research on the nation and group-soul, and a World Union of all the people, concluding with what Sri Aurobindo called the need for a ‘Religion of Humanity’ and the dawning of the spiritual age. Read more

The English of Savitri Volume 11

The English of Savitri Volume 11

The English of Savitri
volume 11

Like the previous volumes in the English of Savitri series, this one too is based on transcripts of classes held by the author at Savitri Bhavan, in this case from June 2013 to January 2014. The transcripts have been carefully revised and edited for conciseness and clarity, while aiming to preserve the informal atmosphere of the course. This Eleventh Volume covers Book Four, The Book of Birth and Quest, and Book Five, The Book of Love, of Sri Aurobindo’s epic, Savitri – A Legend and a Symbol. Each sentence of these cantos is examined closely, and explanations are given about vocabulary, sentence-structure and imagery. The aim is to assist understanding of the poem which the Mother has characterised as ‘the supreme revelation of Sri Aurobindo’s vision.’

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