Which town?

brought to Her and She designated a point. On the ground one found there a young banyan tree, all alone along a path frequented by the villagers of the neighborhood – and their goats.

This tree She would later name “Inner Life” and would instruct that be inscribed on a circular panel around its main trunk the following words:

“To place around the tree –

Auroville, the City at the service of Truth”

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For this inauguration to be inscribed within the great Unfolding, it was decided that the children studying in the ashram would formally invite each country to send as representatives two children or teenagers with a handful of its soil, which they would deposit into an Urn especially erected at the center of the area, on the appointed day, so that the symbolic terrestrial act of commitment be concrete and material. Along with earth from all the nations would also be laid, in a sealed metal cylinder, the Charter of the town written in Her hand. She made a little sketch of the urn, so as to indicate precisely what was required, marking its dimension and the material to be used (rose or white marble).

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