Auroville's Birthday is February 28th, and that morning they had a meditation in the amphitheater near the Matramandir temple. Dawn came up blue and quiet as a several hundred people meditated. For a few minutes they played a recording of the Mother reading the Auroville Charter in many languages. Auroville is to have no dogmas, but to be an Aurovillian one must be a willing servitor of the Divine Consciousness.
This is the roof of my guesthouse Verite. Here you see the solar panels, and the roof of Verite's main hall, site of events and mystical kirtan and so forth.
This is Verite's windmill. The rudder of the windmill is decorated with Sri Aurobindo's symbol, which like the Star of David, united triangles, only here it's elongated in the middle into a square, with a lotus to symbolize the enlightened consciousness that arises out of the muddy pond of Creation.
This is a schoolyard garden at the New Creation School. Bamboo has been well-employed as the sides.
In Pondicherry, fishermen head out before dawn, to take advantage of the hours before the sun blares upon the skin like a toaster oven. Their boats are sometimes very primitive, curved logs tied together into canoes, paddled out.
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