Sunday, April 12, 2009
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Its Green Out There !
This one is a snapshot of a garden at Ramoji Filmcity in Hyderabad. Did you notice the tail of the elephant??
Charte d' Auroville - 26.02.1968
The Auroville Charter. Click on the picture to enlarge and read....!! To know more about Auroville see the previous posts in January
Friday, January 18, 2008
Hyderabad Central
Pictures of Hyderabad Central at Panjagutta, Hyderabad during Diwali festival 2007
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Saturday, January 5, 2008
Sunrise at Mahabalipuram
If you click on the picture and enlarge it you will notice a boat at far distance !
Nature's Fury
This picture was taken on 15/4/2007 around 12 midnight....it was raining cats and dogs...
Camera Used: Canon IXY DIGITAL 60
Exposure Time: 1 sec.
F-stop: f/2.8
Friday, January 4, 2008
Pillars of Time
The pillars and the carvings in the above pics. are from Monolithic Temples known as "Rathas" carved from a rock dating back to 630-668 AD at Mahabalipuram, India.
The Matrimandir
A place...for trying to find one's consciousness.
It is like the Force, the central Force of Auroville,
the cohesive Force of Auroville.
The Mother
Matrimandir
At the very centre of Auroville one finds the 'soul of the city', the Matrimandir, situated in a large open area called 'Peace', from where the future township will radiate outwards. The atmosphere is quiet and charged, and the area beautiful, even though at present large parts of it are still under construction.
As yet incomplete, the Matrimandir emerges as a large golden sphere which seems to be rising out of the earth, symbolising the birth of a new consciousness seeking to manifest. Its slow and steady progress towards completion is followed by many.
While walking through the lovely green Matrimandir Gardens with their great variety of flowers, shrubs and trees, one's attention is greatly drawn by this important and powerful feature at the heart of the city which was seen by the Mother as the "symbol of the Divine's answer to man's aspiration for perfection" and as "the central cohesive force" for the growth of Auroville.
Evolutionary principle
The name 'Matrimandir' means literally 'Temple of the Mother'. According to Sri Aurobindo's teaching, the 'Mother' concept stands for the great evolutionary, conscious and intelligent principle of Life, the Universal Mother, - which seeks to help humanity move beyond its present limitations into the next step of its evolutionary adventure, the supramental consciousness.
Inner Chamber
The spacious Inner Chamber in the upper hemisphere of the structure is completely white, with white marble walls and white carpeting. In the centre a pure crystal-glass globe suffuses a ray of electronically guided sunlight which falls on it through an opening at the apex of the sphere.
"The most important thing is this: the play of the sun on the centre. Because that becomes the symbol, the symbol of future realisations."
There are no images, no organised meditations, no flowers, no incense, no religion or religious forms.
To find one's consciousness..
The Matrimandir is there for "those who want to learn to concentrate.." "No fixed meditations, none of all that, but they should stay there in silence, in silence and concentration. A place for trying to find one's consciousness."
No religion
"Let it not become a religion", the Mother said. "The failure of religions is... because they were divided. They wanted people to be religious to the exclusion of other religions, and every branch of knowledge has been a failure because it has been exclusive.
What the new consciousness wants (it is on this that it insists) is: no more divisions.
To be able to understand the spiritual extreme, the material extreme, and to find the meeting point, the point where that becomes a real force."
Thursday, January 3, 2008
The Lotus Bud
This Lotus Bud at Matrimandir, Auroville contains soil from 132 countries who were the founding members of Auroville.
What is she thinking?
I met this little girl outside the temple at Pondicherry and asked her to pose for me. I am wondering what she was thinking looking at the camera. I never asked who she was, where she was from.....
Auroville
"Auroville wants to be a universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to realise human unity."
Auroville Charter
1) Auroville belongs to nobody in particular.
2) Auroville belongs to humanity as a whole.
But to live in Auroville, one must be the willing servitor of the Divine Consciousness. Auroville will be the place of an unending education,
of constant progress, and a youth that never ages.
3) Auroville wants to be the bridge between the past and the future. Taking advantage of all discoveries from without and from within, Auroville will boldly spring towards future realisations.
4) Auroville will be a site of material and spiritual researches for a living embodiment of an actual Human Unity.
- The Mother
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