Auroville India, The Human Adventure

I've ended up in a place called Auroville... It's in the very south of India on the East Coast in the State of Tamil Nadu.

I had never heard of this place before, but 2 Spanish girls I met in Yoga Teacher Training  were traveling in that direction. So, I decided to leave my favourite German in Goa and head east to Auroville.

Auroville is a pretty interesting little community that started in the late 60's with a vision to create unity for mankind. So going to there to experience what it was all about was nothing but interesting.

Wikipedia explains the history way better than I do, so here is a copy and paste.

The history of Auroville begins, 'officially' that is, from February 28th 1968. The Mother broadcasts a speech, actually an invitation to "all people of goodwill". That marks the launching of Auroville, which, everything said and done, is a 'project' and an 'experiment' in Human Unity. It may also be said that Auroville is a  laboratory for the growth of consciousness and thereby hastening the evolution upon earth in the light of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.

Mother approved following short text,  written in 1969,  which sheds much light on the purpose and background of Auroville.

"The task of giving a concrete form to Sri Aurobindo's vision was entrusted to the Mother. The creation of  a new world, a new humanity, a new society expressing and embodying the new consciousness is the work she has undertaken. By the very nature of things, it is a collective ideal that calls for a collective effort so that it may be realised in the terms of an integral human perfection.

The Ashram founded and build by the Mother was the first step towards the accomplishment of this goal. The project of Auroville is the next step, more exterior, which seeks to widen the base of this attempt to establish harmony between soul and body, spirit and nature, heaven and earth, in the collective life of mankind."

http://wiki.auroville.org.in/wiki/History_of_Auroville

las espanoles son mas divertidas

Mas Divertads

Sitting on the balcony of a little hut in Palolem, Goa, with some beautiful, amazing spanish chicas that I met in the Ashram. We bumped into each other in Bikaner, had dinner, laughed and exchanged travel details and digits and said 'hopefully we can catch up in the south'... and sure enough 2 weeks later. Here we are hanging out for 2 days in Palolem. Still sitting on the balcony doing nada, porros, stretching, facebook, henna, porros, music, porros, laughing, and more porros, and more laughing uncontrollably.

10 days to Christmas

Can't believe its almost Christmas. It sure doesn't feel like it. How time flies even faster when you travel.

I am currently alone in north Goa. A place called Arambol. I split with my travel buddy by accident this morning as our communication devices failed us. She, out of battery and me, out of phone credit. So...She is in the sth and I am in the nth. Not so bad, as time alone was the purpose of the journey and its always nice to sit with your self.

For the last couple of days I have been missing home. Checking facebook is not so fun as I do love an Aussie Christmas! We really do have it good down there. I mean, I know Goa is warm but the few things missing are the special peeps in my life to celebrate it with. But you can't have it all...