Ramachandra Rao
This is to inform the community that our long-term friend and brother, Aurovilian 7 (Ramachandra Rao who insisted he be named ‘7’) passed away this week in a Chennai hospital where his family had taken him since his health was ailing. He was 67 years old.
7, who joined Auroville in the very early seventies and has been here off and on since then, may always remain an enigma for us as his apparently passionate and burning need to express his inner findings and vision of Auroville tended to come through in a continuous flow of not easy to follow monologues, profoundly interlaced with his interpretation of the vision of our founders. At times his sense of reality may have wavered, possibly caused by a too great intensity of a not yet settled inner life.
In these later years, many may have witnessed 7, prim and cleanly dressed, quietly sitting at a corner of La Terrace on the roof of Solar Kitchen, playing his flute for hours on end in the late afternoon sun.
May you still be playing, dear 7, on the way to the Light.
Our warm condolences go out to 7’s wife and daughter, and other family members in Chennai.
OM~
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