Seeking Our Inner Being Se. 1, Ep. 11.
In June 1970, Mother wrote the foundations of how to live both in the world and for the Divine simultaneously in “How to Be a True Aurovillian”:
“The first necessity is the inner discovery in order to know what one truly is behind social, moral, cultural, racial and hereditary appearances. At the centre there is a being free, vast and knowing, who awaits our discovery and who ought to become the active centre of our being and our life in Auroville.”
This ongoing series of interviews aims to explore the individual adventures and experiences of seeking one’s Inner/ Psychic Being, as shared by Aurovilians and others intimately familiar with the revelations of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. How does one’s quest for the Inner Being that is “free, vast and knowing” begin, how does the discovery unfold, and how does it shape our interactions and behaviours in the world?
Our invitation to participants is to be as honest and led from the heart as possible and to avoid quotes and lectures; rather to share from their own unique experiential journey. We hope through these examples of lived experience to show that our Inner Being is not an out-of-reach abstraction, but is actually very concrete and knowable. And we hope they inspire you, our listeners, to consider and reflect on your own journey.
In this eleventh session, we have invited Renu to share with us:
“Auroville would be a very ordinary if it was simply a ‘development project’. I am so grateful for having lived here from it’s beginnings and living the freedom and the daring it took to dream an impossible dream in this unshaded land, a shared understanding of the values it attempted-a pause in the busyness of time and giving room for an inner life and change. To witness the healing of the earth and the creation of so many initiatives through the hard work and goodwill of so many people over time …it is an invisible (and visible) edifice to the Mother. I’m happy to have felt and known all of this.”
If you would like to get involved in this project, interact with us in any way, or you are interested in helping us financially, please email us at innerbeing.auroville@gmail.com