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Issue No: 321, April 2016

"You have to keep going forward": A Portrait of Pashi

Pashi Kapur came to live in Auroville with his family in early 1974. Since then, he has contributed a great deal but his Auroville journey has not always been smooth. Here he tells about the ‘adventure’ to which he has dedicated his life and which, in spite of its ups and downs, he would not have missed for the world. When Pashi was about ten years old, a swami came into the lives of his family. He was to have a big influence upon the young boy's development. “He guided my young mind towards the biographies of great people, and towards the study of philosophy and religion. Under his guidance, I read both the Bible and the Koran. In other words, he was a very unusual kind of swami who introduced me to a way of thinking that was very different from the orthodox, to something beyond conventional religion.” Much later, when Pashi was married and had a family, he went to a talk by J. Krishnamurti. He was impressed and thought about sending his three children to the Rishi ...
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Issue No. 321, April 2016

  • Shalom Shanti Salam
  • The Auroville Economy: In Dire Straits
  • Is Auroville Moving Toward a Market Economy?
  • All for Water for All
  • Discovering Johannes Hohlenberg
  • Down Memory Road or The Tunnel
  • The English of Savitri, vol. 2
  • "You have to keep going forward": A Portrait of Pashi
  • German Volunteers in Auroville: The Weltwaerts Programme
  • Rockstar Racing
  • Eric Hughes (Passing)

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