POETRY


Auroville

What I feel is what I see, a veritable paradise on Earth,
A garden of Eden, germinated and nurtured from dry desert shrub land.
A community of multi-national inhabitants, participating in the creation of a city without nationality,
A place where free expression is encouraged and whose centre is the Matrimandir,
A symbol of the Aurovillian hopes and aspirations,
And also of the Divines answer to man’s inspiration for perfection.
A community that is not just introverted and isolated, separate from the global community,
But endeavouring to consciously connect, interact and communicate,
With all other groups and communities throughout India and the world.
Auroville, conceived as a city at the service of Truth,
Which is all inclusive and constitutes the freedom of the Spirit.
Echoes of ‘The Village’, without the electric cars, uniforms, roaring bubble gum
And of course the numbers, the painless even pleasant dehumanising programmes,
Are of course a total antithesis, of everything that inspired
And contribute to conceiving, precipitating, engendering and forming,
This colossal verdant city, with expression of the soul, in all it’s possible facets.
It’s role and goal, as a haven, example and blue print, for the future development of our questing species
City of Dawn, a conglomerate of very inspiring and significantly named communities,
Such as Fertile, Certitude, Sincerity, Revelation, Transformation and Verity.