Cradle of an Epic Supramental Quest

Purpose. Without an aim human life is meaningless. And purpose as we can easily observe range from mediocre aims to epic quests. Here in Auroville the City of Dawn founded by the Kalki Avatar Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, it is obviously an Epic Quest:

"The whole earth must prepare itself for the advent of the new species, and Auroville wants to work consciously to hasten this advent."
 
"The aim of human life is to discover the Divine and to manifest It."
 
Auroville is situated in the bosom of Mother India the Guru of Nations, the sacred land of Yoga with the Divine. Thus without having a yogic understanding and a firm will to act as per our Core Vision-Goal of hastening the advent of the new apex species beyond the obvious limitations of Homo sapiens, one will be stuck forever in the painful churnings of universal Nature trying to solve one's existential human problems with old, unconscious ways. 
 
Here's Divine Guidance to anyone who wishes to participate in this Epic Quest:
 
"It is, in fact, a revolt against the whole universal Nature."
 
 
"Auroville is intended to hasten the advent of the Supramental reality upon earth.
 
The help of all those who find that the world is not what it ought to be is welcome.
 
Each one must know if he wants to associate himself with an old world on the verge of death, or to work for a new and better world ready to be born."
 
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"The first thing the physical consciousness must realize is that all the difficulties we encounter in life arise from the fact that we do not rely exclusively on the Divine to find the help we need.
 
The Divine alone can liberate us from the mechanism of universal Nature. And this liberation is indispensable for the birth and development of the new race.
 
Only if we give ourselves entirely to the Divine with total trust and gratitude will the difficulties be surmounted."
 
 
The common understanding of True Aurovilians is that the Creative Power of the Divine is the Mother MahaShakti who is the Eternal Creatrix and Supreme Powerholder of the Cosmos. In the ongoing supramentalisation of universal Nature, only She has the Supreme Power to eventually transform us. Thus She is our Supreme Object of Yoga here in Auroville. We call this the Sunlit Path of Bhakti, the easiest and most joyful path.
 
Our early Aurovilians were guided by the Mother to build Matrimandir first which took 37 years to complete. Matrimandir is the symbolic Seat and Centre of the Supreme Divine Mother MahaShakti who summons some of Her more receptive children from all over the world, dynamically engaging as distinct archetypes to hasten the advent of the new apex species which will take many more generations. Our Three Core Ideals are our constant uplifting reminders to persevere on with this Divine Purpose:
 
 
In our current stage of development since Auroville's inauguration on 28th February 1968, the protection against infiltration and admixture seems to be the current pressing challenge based on the ongoing highly sensitive community issue of Land Consolidation. This is how the Mother foresaw the City of Dawn:
 
"What I myself have seen… was a plan that came complete in all details, but that doesn’t at all conform in spirit and consciousness with what is possible on earth now (although, in its most material manifestation, the plan was based on existing terrestrial conditions). It was the idea of an ideal city, the nucleus of a small ideal country, having only superficial and extremely limited contacts with the old world. One would already have to conceive (it’s possible) of a Power sufficient to be at once a protection against aggression or bad will (this would not be the most difficult protection to provide) and a protection (which can just barely be imagined) against infiltration and admixture…. From the social or organizational standpoint, these problems are not difficult, nor from the standpoint of inner life; the problem is the relationship with what is not supramentalized—preventing infiltration or admixture, keeping the nucleus from falling back into an inferior creation during the transitional period."
 
 
Thus the very powerful players engaging and needed in the continued development of this Ideal City of Dawn that since its inception in 1968 to 1988 to the present has evolved to legally include the Government of Mother India administering and governing Auroville through Her Ministry of Education, with selected participants from more than 60 nations all over the world bringing in their unique contributions.
 
Collective life in Auroville is an intensely dynamic multi-faceted evolutionary process, quite intense and nerve-racking for some of the yogic initiates at times, but is only proper to what is to be expected in the Cradle of an Epic Supramental Quest.
 
As Willing Servitors and Hero Warriors we consciously continue on in the Sunlit Path of Bhakti to the Supreme Divine Mother MahaShakti towards the envisioned Life Divine on Earth for all...
 
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