Auroville: A Test Run for the Future | Anu Majumdar | TEDxChennai 

I would like to go. Living on a highier level of consciousness and building a place where everyone lives harmoniously and builds the same dream is very powerful.

What Auroville needs is engineers. Focusing on self sustaining technologies that can provide food and energy for everyone with minimal manual labor. To free up people to pursue higher goals. Similar to the ideas of Jacque Fresco's Venus project but Aurovilles own twist.

I would like to live in Auroville. I’m sick of the typical system in the current society. May I know the way for me to join this experimental city?

One should visit Auroville with least expectations. He will experience Auroville in a better way.

Thank you 💘

Anu est tombée dans la panneau des TED. Mère a été formelle : pas de publicité concernant Auroville. Les TED avec un ticket d'entré de 200 euros pour assister au spectacle, sont tout sauf un moteur d'évolution pour l'humanité. Depuis 32 années d'existence, ces pseudo conférences n'ont pas fait évoluer l'humanité d' un iota. Parler d'Auroville comme une réussite sur le plan écologique, architectural, sociétal relègue au second plan le vrai but, le seul but : permettre aux êtres de vivre dans un environnement idéal pour la mise en pratique de la charte d'Auroville rédigée par Mère. Et de cela, il n'a pas été question...

I am born and raised in Bhutan and I think it's very crucial for me to visit Auroville. I have been to Tamil nadu for four consecutive years but never heard of such place. I would like to learn more by visiting it sooner. Please do drop me the travelling tips. I can already fill the excitement in my spine. thank you.

Thank you, Anu! (Thank you, Mother. Thank you Michael, Maude, Medhananda, & also that young master Majumdar who tried to teach us Bengali in Missouri, a year before we arrived in Pondicherry, 1967, in time for Auroville's dedication the next February....

Long way to go. Have been visiting and living there for some 40 years...unless the human consciousness changes, nothing will change.

Mindfulness can be practiced without a mandir or a temple or a church. At the same time man is a creature of habit, he is ritualistic, he gives meaning to objects, he is prone to deify everything and even himself. It is all in the mind. As a social being, he lives among other human beings, he has material needs but he does not live on bread alone, he has aspirations, he has a soul, nothing but the Divine can satisfy him completely. The way is unique, each one must journey alone, at times with another, but no other human being can fulfil his thirst for the Infinite.

The talk is not very engaging!! To spread the word to common man some humor is needed.. it's sounds like classroom lecture!

in reality Humans dont need Auroville, Auroville need humans.

Alas, many locals do money for its greedy on name of Auroville...a lot of personal plots of lands inside of Master Plan landlords keep or they sell to Auroville on speculative astronomical prices or they create here its own hotels and cafes with label "Auro" - completely out of Mother and Sri Aurobindo dream.... Not at all so good and nice if one can see on site with first look, a lot difficulties and troubles inside this Idea.... spirituality is a good business in India for westerns since Beatles time....

New ways to sell overpriced resorts...

Well said very well said and thank you for making this awareness.., today's India needs to awaken to this ,,, the making of golden India BACK again as "sone ki chidiya" 🙏🙏 but mam one small thing strikes me is the main message that comes via Auroville is the ONENESS.. but when I meet Tamil people who are residing nearest to Auroville have not yet received the essence of Saint Aurobindo.. they are so stubborn to say that before beginning any conversation with anyone, people from non Tamilians are "mam either English or Tamid"... & I go mumm ... To explain why...why do you say this irrational stubbornness..!!! what is your nationality.. aren't you Indian.. if yes what is the national language.. it's Hindi neither Hindi nor Tamid..(l as d Tamil).. I am a bengali by my region.. I am Tinabanerjee as I am known as.. but I never force these CONDITIONS on others to communicate.. isn't it that Unconditional love had no LANGUAGE.. & rather LOVE is the only international language reciprocated and understood by all from Humans to animals,birds n all even plants too.. I wish this basic heart opening may start from REMOVING this block of loving more people n not creating language as a barrier.. 😐😊🙏☯️

This city seems so revolutionary and amazing! I wish my country had it.

I really need to visit Auroville, so that I can learn on how I may be able to implement this in Zambia, if you have tips let me know!

I live in Auroville

This place is a resort, it's like all usual tourists place. But with concept of humanity 🙄 it's truly a good strategy

Poor explanation of great place

Beautifully explained 🙏🏽

Ken Wilbet Books At Auroville. We Need A Charity For It.

😂😂😂😂Higher level of consciousness is a joke. When you don't understand normal world then how you gonna understand higher consciousness. First come out of materialistic mindset stop supporting companies and brands and focus on personal life then you don't even need concept like Oroville.

Don't build any holy place then you can have beautiful natural beauty of life

How is this not a wider plan implemented everywhere else?? The govt could undertake many experimental projects like this

Yes. Let's create a world inclined more towards responsibility that towards religion.

I want to do my Architecture Internship In Auroville...what is the procedure for that?

Buddha, one of the wisest of the sons of Asia. His real name was Gautama, but he was called Buddha because Buddha means the Awakened One. The man who wakes up now, in what sense was he awake ? He was awake in the sense that he was completely all here. After all we say about a person who is nuts, he's not all here. He's not all there ,but our whole culture, our all civilization, insofar as it is involved with time and living only for a future ,is nuts. It's not all here. We are not awake. We are not completely alive now. And consequently, we are so hungry and so greedy because everything seems tasteless. We are living for an abstraction which has not yet come to be, and we don't know what it really is. We are living in a materialist dimension based on money, greed and power instead co-operation, unity and equality a dimension that will connect us with the universe, nature and spirit, with THE ALL, instead a dimension that connects capitalism into machines that shield our connections to THE ALL. Free your mind from the pipe dreams of modern society, don't chase prosperity and wealthiness to climb at the top of the pyramid find the humble point and stay there, and if you don't, use it to contribute and not to fulfill your materialism dreams. We can't change the world with a jungle of different thoughts dispersed in a digital network, but we can with unified waves of thoughts that will wash out the current ones. Co-operation, unity and equality will be key to awaken us, our ancestors were doing it already a long long time ago, they left us clues but we are not awake enough to understand it.

I had been there for a visit, spent around half a day, it was calm and green place. Must visit for a different experience!

one of the best talks on Auroville

Amma I have panned to visit Auroville on Sunday 8th of jan. Can i have an opportunity to share a little time..... 😊🙏

It's a pity it didn't think past itself. I agree it should remain a minorpolis but it should have a structure in place in taking some of the people from that center to spawn another center. And this can be done by putting in its charter at the beginning what size they want to limit the city to. A structure of succession has not been thought of by the looks of it. Maybe they should start!

Aurovile setup in Tamilnadu at vilupuram district near to pondycheri this land was got by tamilnadu government at free of cost. They promised to delivery of improvement of tamilnadu but it works some one else..

Really love this idea and this people! This City is a existing miracle!)

“And solar” 😂

13:25-13:28 why did that sound sooo weird!?

I being follower of SRI Aurobindo @Mother as well, like to be part of my elderly future life with creeds in Auroville a city of dawn to enhance my inner consciousness with entire devotion to divine. I seek your co operation seriously. i have gone through your valuable lectures which also encouraging

My goodness I would love to be a part of this.... such a hard life change or risk to do that though.

My boyfriend and I want this.

This looks like a large modern commune. As long as it doesn't turn into a cult it will be successful.

"Unlearn or Unwinding Cultural baggage, moral, religious... Blah blah.... And then a few seconds after she told mother draw 4zones. The first one in that was cultural! And they fill their mind & others mind with Aurobindo ideas!!!!! Plz meet the seniors of that community & just observe....are they fully satisfied? With inner peace? Fully in bliss? Most of then secretively adore Indian pooja,temple,devi ,Ishwara concepts... But city has banned it! If you have any love for Maheshwara or Krishna or Devi ,better don't go there to settle down, u can just visit. Religious values are not set to entangle a life, but to release it to the Highest, the Absolute!

I wonder, will the goal of 50,000 ever be realized?

Is Auroville a cult?

Show me a way to join this wonderful place

I am really grateful to be Indian first mohenjo daro and second auroville one has changed india and the another will change the world for sure really proud of auroville if I would have money like Jeff Bezos I would have served to build the auroville hoping to live here all my life

Le Corbusier, French architect.

Miss the BEAUTIFUL souls of animals on 4 legs.....

I would love to be a part of this wonderful place ....

an inspiring idea.. love this

Beautiful!

Animals on for legs ??????? RIGHTS

❤️❤️

Nightmare for introverts

But Aurovile do not give local Presion business

This is ssssooooo cool

Do not monetized this video, obviously Tnx

Local Presion only employee, not aa employers

Nice talking.

Beautiful.

Is this anarchist dream?

Auroville, for all its lofty and wonderful ideals, will be reduced to a historical blip as a result of climate change. One of Auroville's Achilles' heels is that it spends too much time dreaming, and not enough time looking at and studying reality around it. The unyielding reality around Auroville is going to be its downfall within the next decade or two. Climate change will make large parts of India uninhabitable.. and any areas trying to be havens of peace and self-sustainability, like Auroville, will not survive the destructive pressures coming from their surroundings desperate to cling on to life.

Thank you, Anu!

Read the website with the warnings. Can't even safely ride a scooter with a backpack there. Sounds like a Fail to me. Too bad.

Love it.