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Issue No: 306, January 2015

Prema (Passing)

On 17th December, Prema (Adelina Intanno) passed away. She was 68 years old and had been fighting a terminal ailment for two years. Prema, who was born in Argentina, came to Auroville in 1979. She had been flying from Mexico City to Paris when a lady approached her. “What are you doing in life?” she asked.  “I’m searching,” Prema replied. “And what are you searching for?” “I don’t know, but I will know it if I find it.” Then the lady said, “I know what you are searching for, you are searching for your place. And your place is Auroville.” This lady gave her the address of AVI France. There Prema found the book, The Mother by Sri Aurobindo. As soon as she read the first sentence There are two powers that alone can effect in their conjunction the great and difficult thing which is the aim of our endeavour; a fixed and unfailing aspiration that calls from below and a supreme grace from above that answers. in Prema’s words “my world turned completely round. I contin...
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Issue No. 306, January 2015

  • Growing timber and firewood for Auroville
  • Kenji’s Woodwork
  • Aurorachana
  • Prakrit
  • Woodscapes
  • Reflections on a feedback process
  • The Auroville Statistics Initiative
  • Villages clean-up
  • Kindling the Viewless Fire
  • Combatting alcoholism
  • The Odd Couple
  • Prema (Passing)
  • We have a Working Committee
  • Population statistics 2014
  • Veenapani Chawla (Passing)
  • New Dawn Carpentry

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