Purnam Community
Purnam Community is an initiative of Purnam Centre for Integrality, an educational unit of Auroville. While the entire Auroville can be seen as an international campus for spiritual education, the specific focus of Purnam is on karmayoga, based on the teachings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and the ideals and experience of Auroville.
Vision & Mission of Purnam
Purnam is inspired by the idea of ‘the spiritual gift of India to the world‘ as envisioned by Sri Aurobindo. In this light, Purnam’s mission is to train 50,000 karmayogis who will carry the spirit of India forward. To realise this vision, Purnam Community has been created, a transformative learning community to coach young spiritual seekers to become karmayogis.
The Philosophy of Purnam
"Purnam" is a Sanskrit word that means "integral, whole and complete."
When you live with internal conflicts and confusion, you are getting torn and psychologically fragmented. Thus you lose your wholeness. Then, you cannot engage with your life or work wholeheartedly. Eventually, this internal fragmentation will manifest as outer friction and conflict with the larger whole of which you are a part. This friction and conflict manifests everywhere – within family and personal relationships, within organisation and teams, within society and nations and within the larger ecosystems of which you are a part. To restore the outer harmony, first, you must restore your inner wholeness. This is the paradigm shift that Purnam works with. This is the fundamental idea upon which the Purnam Community is built.
History of Purnam
Purnam emerged as an outgrowth of Auroville Campus Initiative (ACI) which was an educational initiative formed in 2012 under the Sri Aurobindo International Institute of Educational Research (SAIIER) of Auroville Foundation to develop higher education possibilities of Auroville. Youth from around the world were already flocking to Auroville searching for meaning and purpose in life but there were no structured courses available at that time. To address this need, the Swadharma course was launched in 2016 for the youth (age 18 – 30) of the world. Subsequently, many other courses like Svadhyaya, Savitri Painting, and Purnam Practice Labs were launched. Meanwhile a formal unit called Purnam Centre For Integrality was registered in 2021 under Auroville Foundation, to consolidate all the projects.
In 2023 Purnam Community was launched with membership subscriptions and bundled courses to facilitate a long term learning journey for seekers who thirst for spiritual progress.
Milestones 2016 – 2024
- Swadharma – 2016
- Svadhyaya – 2018
- Re-imagining University Confluence – 2018
- Integral Education Portal – 2020
- Integral Education Wiki – 2020
- Savitri Painting – 2020
- Savitri Art – 2021
- Swadharma Online – 2021
- Purnam Labs with 45 Practices – 2021
- Purnam Community – 2023
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