Spirituality and ecological values: What remains of India's utopian city of Auroville? • FRANCE 24
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- It's a utopian city without money, without a government, without religion and which welcomes all nationalities. #Auroville was founded in southern #India in February 1968 by #MirraAlfassa, a French woman nicknamed "the Mother". After her death in 1973, the city developed, despite being located in the middle of the desert, thanks to the work of its residents. Some 3,300 people from 52 different countries live there today. Half of the population is Indian and a fifth is French. Together, they dream of building a new humanity, where people live in peace and harmony. FRANCE 24's Marion Laouamen, Lucile Perrone and Navodita Kumari report.
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To be honest India is a great country I hope its people will have a great government that make the nation better coming from the Philippines.
Atleast we have democracy here
@@rushikesh6725 Tell democracy to give safe air, clean rivers, end caste atrocities and stop rapes!
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Beautiful country, beautiful concept and beautiful people ❤
do you like glitter
Very sadly, this is only a very biased view of Auroville's history and present reality. The journalist forgot to take into consideration the views of the largest portion of the residents for whom the city can not be built by force. The very purpose of Auroville is not to built a city but to build a new man!
Whole concept/ teachings of Sri aurobindo are high jacked. He was for spiritual,it all became a cool, utopian hang out far away from Sri Aurobindo
Jayanthi from BJP is placed there to carry over ruling parti agenda
France 24 needs to talk about Ecosia they are a search engine that plants
I noticed a lot of plastic articles, like the plastic baskets, containers, now can it be a ecological dream when at its inceptions only so much plastics are been used.one can use bamboo baskets.
#standforaurovilleunity
Come & visit I'm living here in auroville. Sure you will feel different vibe
bien filmé mais très imprécis compte tenu de ce qui se passe
HHUHHHHHHHHHHH?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!1
One time visit this city.... Then feel vibe
are you a swift
OMG I don't want to see there 47000 people more....
that sounds good
DONT CALL ME KID, DONT CALL ME BABY. LOOK AT THIS GODFORSAKEN MESS THAT YOU MADE MEERTGDFSVBGUAWGVRY
Oh thats absolutely cool
oh thank you
11:33 of course they use ubuntu and firefox
fire fox? what is dat
There is not enough work for all of the residents with a minimum maintenance. if somebody has no outside resource and can't pay a contributions is a big issue for the visa holders.
Bravo👏🤞🏻✌
thank you, thank you (not)
Nice! I want too want keep a manbun and join this farming community without money!
When Osho did in usa
They banished him from usa.
Asked 120 million euros from Indian government to propagate utopia ,when India needs funds for so many things,and also when auroville is nothing similar to what Sri Aurobindo would have liked it or be,it all cool,vogue,selling handmade stuff,long haired men,in kurta doing drum circles,far way fr Bharath and true snanatana.
I’ve stayed there as a guest twice so far. They have prayer circles where they chant Vedic mantras to melodies the mantras were originally set to. They have meditation groups, plant flora that is native to the region and which you don’t see outside Auroville on the highways or in villages. They follow the teachings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, who borrowed most of their ideologies from the bhagvad Gita and the vedas. I’ve seen more authentic expressions of what Sanatana Dharma genuinely is inside Auroville than I’ve seen anywhere else in India, and I’ve lived all over this country.
It's mostly the Westerners living in AV protesting against the Galaxy Plan...the GOI is being very patient and understanding and trying hard to have a dialogue.
Number one: human unity. Oneness is the truth but in order to live it we need to look beyind narrow definitions. Now, please prove the statement that you have made.
i think if you want to make utopia , then there will definitely be Randomness and you cannot say it is a free society unless you don't have randomness in that society .. so by fixing the structure of the village you are restricting the beauty of Randomness..
@@petramo4174 Every single one of your "united meetings" proves it. It's over, Petra. Accept it alright. You're done, you're in the past. Get over it and allow Auroville to move on and boldly spring towards future realisations. If you don't like what is happening, fine. But step out of the way instead of desperately trying to prevent the inevitable. You can only be crushed.
@@worldoftruth9304 Says one not even revealing their name 🙂All the best to you.
Thankful for the effort to present Auroville's reality, I do have to say, as always, that the statements like "everyone receives the same salary" are simply not true. It is NOT the reality of today. People have enormously different financial means, and a very vast portion of the 3,300 inhabitants have their own financial sources, that have nothing to do with the "equal salary" that Auroville provides. Auroville only provides a small portion of the residents with those "salaries", and the required "output" in return for that "salary" is hugely different.
Secondly, there never ever was "unity" in Auroville. From its very start, the dominant doctrine, naturally, as in every society, was set by the most bullying and least spiritual faction of the society: the most brutal people will always be the most loud and the most influential.
This was the same in Auroville, from day one, and Auroville's beautiful aims and ideals were hijacked immediately by people who had very low levels of consciousness, but were very skilled in manipulation.
This leads to the third point: this dominant faction managed to suppress the real history of what happened here in the beginning, and has now made their mythological account of the early years the official story, more of a hagiography than a historical account. As with all colonies, all pre-existing realities need to be removed, and the arrival of the colonists presented as brave adventurers arriving on an empty land, which was, thanks to their hard work and great skills, transformed into a paradise. How many times will Europeans get away with this childish, idiotic lie?
The colonists have to constantly make sure the lie is repeated and instilled in every person that comes, lest someone discover the reality of the colonial history, with all its dirty but strongly suppressed facts.
The present turmoil is the inevitable result of a world no longer accepting that lies and falsehood are the age-old basis of society. Truth needs to be allowed to be told, and become the basis of our daily interactions, and the way we structure our communal life.
The Auroville of the past 50+ years is dead. You may find this an absurd statement, an exaggeration without reality, but you will see it in the coming years.
Auroville is being re-invented, the narratives that are being put out since the very early days, but which have never been real, quite on the contrary, are being put into reality. It will be needed to come back in 5 years to compare the Auroville picture here with the Auroville that is being born right now.
Because the "no ownership" has never been anything but a nice propaganda line, and a legal reality. But the reality these colonists created, is of course one of possession and violent defending of powers and property rights.
Auroville is at this very moment in the midst of a very nasty legal fight, waged by these colonists to prevent the past from being changed into the future. They cannot accept that the lives they built over all these decades are being put into question, that they now have to be accountable for their crass abuse of the freedoms India bestowed so uniquely and benevolently on the Aurovilians. They are turning it into a very ugly battle for property and ownership, showing you and everybody else that their nice talks of "equality" and "no money, no politics, no ownership" are only empty words, and cover up a very different reality.
Luckily their reign is over, their grip over Auroville through bullying, emotional and physical intimidation and blackmailing is finally coming to an end.
Please come back in five years, and document the immense difference you will see then with the reality of today.
@canwetalkabout No, there is a lot more. The past 50 years of Auroville have seen it being perverted into a cult.
That is a reality that needs to be set straight before we can talk about any "attempt" at whatever.
We ARE continuing the experiment. ln order to do so, the people who are since decades blocking all experimentation and simply squatting on this location as if it were their property, have to be removed: they are illegally occupying this place for something it was never meant to be.
Once that situation is dissolved, we can go on with trying to create Mother's Dream.
if in 5 years it is returned to the 'natives' it'll be the same worn out desert that it came from, the 'colonisers' managed to create something from the nothing they left behind and now they jealously want it back but with none of the knowlege or will to change that made such an oasis.
Auroville_ A Dream Hijacked by Nirmalya Mukherjee
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feel like a cult. why some people live in fancy places and others don't.
fancy places are like water. not everyone gets it
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When pondecherry government was asked about iconic historic monument of pondecherry the answer was not Matri Mandir
Why would it be matri mandir ?
c'est une sorte d'évasion bourgeoise
what is bro yapping about
Many ppl might know this but they speak tamil better than many of us Tamils
If only! Hardly any of the colonisers speak Tamil. Why would they? Colonials do not learn local culture!
Why do people in Auroville always look sad?
Hahahahahahsgshagahshs
one thing i hate about auroville is that if i work more i better earn more. if i have money i want whatever i want to own.
So that’s Epcot and it’s all symbolic to meditation. Then why is America the capital of terror?
wrong point of view, i've lived there for 7 years
but youre blind
I think the place is beautiful as it is now with full of greenery. trying to make it like a mega city is wrong idea , it will ruin the ambience
Nobody wants to turn it into a "megacity". How many people do you consider for a "megacity"?
50k people is hardly a city in India, it's a bit more than a big village...
Don't romanticise colonization, also That's a cult place though. My friend volunteered there. They do use currency.
The host of this video says "The Mother though never knew and died in the year....". That's when I stopped watching this video. No point watching and listening to someone who knows nothing about the Mother.
#standforaurovilleunity