Ulf Meuller

Positive Contributor to Auroville

Ulf Meuller had been a good friend and well-wisher of Auroville since his first visit together with his wife Birgitta in 2001. During that first visit, a programme on organizational training for our working groups was initiated together with him and Birgitta, and for the next three years they came and worked with our groups, mainly the Working Committee and the Auroville Council. During that time Ulf also arranged for the Chief Architect of his hometown Halmstad in Sweden to participate in the EU Conference held in Auroville.

Since then, Ulf and Birgitta visited Auroville every year except during Covid. With his openness and interest in a deepened understanding of life, Ulf made friends wherever he went, in Auroville and in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, in Tiruvannamalai and in the Krishnamurti Center in Chennai where he also visited during his yearly stays in India. Ulf made friends and kept them.

Meetings together were always warm and he was always interested to understand, to speak deeply and there was always laughter close by. Ulf had a positive outlook on life, always seeing possibility, love and for Auroville, always Mother and Sri Aurobindo at the center of what Auroville is.

During his last trip to Auroville in 2023, Ulf left his body. It seemed a choice, handing himself over in Her arms, in full surrender. Meeting Ulf a few days before he fell ill, there was friendship, gentleness and a soft flow of gratitude in life and all it gives.

His wife Birgitta and his son Magnus were with him when he passed away. In the afternoon of 3rd March, his body was cremated at the Auroville burial grounds, where we welcomed this dear friend for his last rituals together with us.

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​Submitted by Jaya