Greetings from Auroville to all men of goodwill. Are invited to Auroville all those who thirst for progress and aspire to a higher and truer life." The Mother, 28.02. 1968

Joining Auroville

Auroville has entered a new stage of growth and development to fulfil the vision of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. If you wish to discover Auroville, you may visit as a guest or a volunteer for a few months. If your inner call is to join and settle permanently, you can apply to become a Resident of Auroville - an Aurovilian.

Foundational Vision

The Mother founded Auroville in the light of Sri Aurobindo’s works and his fifth dream in The Five Dreams of India’s Resurgence, envisioning a step in evolution toward a higher and larger consciousness and a society capable of addressing humanity’s deepest problems.

Auroville is a spiritual experiment to be realised as a city—a physical platform for a “higher and truer life”—set in motion by The Mother as the culmination of Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga of Transformation.

The Mother envisioned Auroville as a universal township for unending education and inner progress, dedicated to human unity, as further described in A Dream (1954), the Auroville Charter (1968), and To be a True Aurovilian (1970).

The community is meant to be a society of 50,000 spiritual seekers—a Sangha or Gnostic Society—living the Charter’s call to be “willing servitors of the Divine Consciousness.”

[Excerpt from a conversation with Satprem]

[The Mother:]

So I asked, I concentrated to know what should be said. And then all of a sudden Sri Aurobindo gave me a revelation. That was interesting. I concentrated to know the why, the how, etc., then all of a sudden Sri Aurobindo said...

[Mother reads a note:] India has become...

It was a vision of the thing that was translated into French words right away.

India has become the symbolic representation of all the difficulties of present-day Humanity.

India will be the site of its resurrection, the resurrection of a higher and truer life.

And the clear vision: the same thing which in the history of the universe has made the earth the symbolic representation of the universe so as to be able to concentrate the work at one point, the same phenomenon is occurring now: India is the representation of all human difficulties on earth, and it is in India that there will be the... cure. And it is for that – it is FOR THAT that I had to create Auroville.

It came, it was so clear and tremendously powerful!”

3 February 1968 - The Mother’s Agenda

“…to live in Auroville, one must be a willing servitor of the Divine Consciousness.” — The Mother

Your next step

If the above resonates with you, explore the Principles of Life and Work in Auroville (Page 1.1), and the process to join Auroville, given below.

For all queries, please write to atr@auroville.org.in