If you join Auroville looking for a
spiritual utopia, look again. If you are expecting a city of divine
peace, where people wear white, have blissful smiles and sit in
circles chanting “Om”, radiating the tranquillity and serenity
you have always longed for, think again. If you think that your
presence in Auroville will be welcomed and you will talked to with
interest, better change your assumptions. For Auroville isn’t like
that.
Seen from a superficial level,
Auroville is a city where people live their lives just like
everywhere else in the world. Aurovilians have their difficulties,
their relationship ups and downs, feel happy, sad, content, at peace,
in bliss – just like anywhere else.
The difference is at a deeper level.
From what I have seen and experienced, there is an energy in
Auroville so powerful that it will force you to change. Whatever you
have run from, denied, hidden, been afraid of, or spent your life
shutting your eyes to, you will be forced to face it. Th...
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