On Auroville 2022 to 2025

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The city the Earth needs, the City at the Service of Truth * Shakti - The Mother Who is She?

She, the Mother: Never and nowhere in the entire history of this earth has such a complete and integral incarnation of the Shakti taken place; this is a fact, an absolute fact. No past or present emanation or manifestation of the Shakti ever can compare to the Mother‟s. She who, on any given day or night of Her material life, would experience such states of consciousness as most seekers, saints and sages, would not dream to reach in a lifetime, She was here for 95 years: here upon this earth, here amongst us all, here in a fragile human body, here to serve and here to work and here to act and here to call down a new age and a new being: a more complete and integral expression of the One. She, who poured ceaselessly and unconditionally on all She met Her love and care, Her knowledge and Her Force and Her power of Harmony, She who would gather every being, however ignorant or even antagonist, to Her bosom and place in the light of the One, She came to do Her Work: to open a passage and a way in our humanness for the next stage of evolution in Matter. For this task She unreservedly gave Herself: She gave the example of total and thorough surrender and absolute dedication. These are not mere words: explore the innumerable accounts and descriptions of Her actions and Her care, delve into the universe of Her own words and expressions, and ponder what He, the Avatar, Sri Aurobindo, ever said of Her, then

you will begin to sense the measure of Her Presence and Her Being. And yet She will remain incomprehensible to the human mind.

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In India we have the term “Shakti”, which encompasses many aspects and levels of expression: the Creatrix, the Energy-Force of Consciousness, the activating Power of the Supreme Paramishwara, the Mother of all beings and of all worlds, the Infinite, Detailed Puissance of Manifestation; it is also, in more immediate and practical senses, the energy that translates concepts and ideas into effective actions and concrete situations. It is sometimes understood as Prakriti, which is the infinitely resourceful force of Nature, whether of a terrestrial order or of another, subtler one, complementing the still vision and conception of the immovable spirit or Purusha.

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