Sharanam of Dana
Our dear and gentle friend and sister, Aurovilian Sharanam, succumbed in the late evening of Thursday, September 1st, in the ICU of the General Hospital in Pondy to a heavy infection that had been rapidly spreading through her chest, lungs and brain. She was 69 years old. She had been awake and conscious throughout the 4-day fight for her life in the hospital, aware that her friends were there for her.
Hailing from Spain, Sharanam (Maria Desamparados Aznar Arce) came already in 1975 to Auroville where she lived in Utility. She went back to her country and worked with the Institute of Evolutionary Research to assist in translating Satprem’s books into Spanish. In the early eighties she returned and was one of the first who introduced Auroville to t’ai chi, subtle energy work and body awareness classes. She also worked in places such as in the old AV Bakery (still in Kottakarai), in the then Entry Group and her ‘Essene breads’ in L.O.E.’s raw food kitchen were famous at the time. In the later years, with her general health condition being rather weak, she became more reclusive, leading a quiet life in Dana while translating into Spanish texts of Sri Aurobindo, the Mother, Satprem and about Auroville, - delivering a stream of important information into the Spanish world.
Thank you, Sharanam, for this gift and for your lovely smile and presence among us.
Sharanam’s remains were taken to the Auroville Farewell Centre where friends could bid goodbye, and were buried in Adventure’s burial grounds in the early Monday morning of September 5th, Ganesh Chaturthi day.
OM~
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