Which town?

Her instruments for this great impulsion, those whom She had called, were not candidates for the life of the ashram: they were strong personalities, active, enterprising and creative – and proud. And so She summoned them, along with all the others, to leave behind all that they had learnt, all that they thought they knew, and embark on a discovery entirely new and beginning from zero – “and come what may”…

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“Salute from Auroville to all men of goodwill.

Are invited to Auroville all those who thirst for progress

and aspire to a truer and higher life.”

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The territory of the town, now shifted onto this large eroded plateau, was almost entirely barren. One had to mark its geographical center: a map was

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