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SRI AUROBINDO ASHRAM, PONDICHERRY:
Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry founded in 1926 had grown under the Mother’s guidance from a small group of two dozen disciples into a large diversified community of 2000 including 650 students of the Centre of Education. The Ashram situated close to the beach is not a quiet place of retreat. It is a vibrant centre of life in a busy urban setting. Every member in the Ashram is expected to do some work as part of spiritual preparation. Work as an offering to the Divine is the main aim and Ashramites do some useful service everyday in the various departments. In the spiritual discipline at the Ashram there are no obligatory practices, no rituals, no compulsory meditations. The Ashram provides its members with all they need for a decent healthy life like food, clothing, shelter, medical care etc. The Ashram has farms and gardens, printing press, a number of small scale industries besides libraries and facilities for a variety of cultural pursuits.

At the Ashram main building, under the service-tree shaded courtyard lies the Samadhi, a white marble shrine where the bodies of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother are laid to rest. The Ashram is administered by the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust. It serves as an unique example of a different kind of Ashram meant for perfection of life and not its rejection.

SRI AUROBINDO SOCIETY, PONDICHERRY:
Sri Aurobindo Society is working for a progressive universal harmony. It was founded by the Mother in 1960, to bring together individuals and institutions inspired by the ideals of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother to work for their effective realisation of a dynamic spiritualised society as envisaged by Sri Aurobindo. This effort has four aspects:-
1. Integral development and perfection of the individual through a synthesis of spiritual and material life.
2. Social transformation and development of a collective life where each one can occupy the place for which he is best suited.
3. Regeneration of India spiritually and materially.
4. Realisation of human unity in a harmonious and organized diversity.
In the words of Sri Aurobindo, …. “If we are spread out everywhere in the form of a sangha (group) a hundred times more will be accomplished”. The society aims to bring together all those who want to dedicate themselves to the advent of a new world with no distinction of nationality, caste, creed, religion or sex. It has more than 400 centres in India and abroad which are the roots and limbs of society, a centre of Sadhana and dedication of service to the Divine. The society conducts annual education camps for orientation of teachers to the concept of education of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. It is publishing books, magazines, information letters etc., to help the members in self-perfection. Audio-Visual section, Auroscience, and Research in social science are the other limbs of the society in the service of humanity.

AUROVILLE (TAMIL NADU):
Auroville, the City of Dawn was founded on 28th Feb 1968, ten kilometers to the north of Pondicherry. The representatives from 124 nations and 23 Indian States dropped a handful of the soil of their country in the ceramic urn in the shape of a stylized lotus. In 1907, the Mother had the vision of an international city belonging to the whole world and in her charter of Auroville she declared that :
1. Auroville belongs to nobody in particular. It belongs to the humanity as a whole and the one who wants to live there must be the willing servitor of the Divine Consciousness.
2. It will be a place of unending education, of constant progress and a youth that never ages.
3. It will be a bridge between the past and the future.
4. It will be a site of spiritual, material researches for a living embodiment of an actual Human Unity.

Many people want to be a part of this unique experiment of the Mother. True to its Charter, Auroville is presently a home for 1500 people from as many as 39 nations. It is a site of research, experimenting in “cash-less economy”, promotion of renewable energy from wind and sun, growing vegetables under organic farming, medicinal plant conservation, rainwater harvesting system etc., A silent progressive revolution is on at Auroville. For all the activities Matri Mandir is seen as the soul of Auroville. It is an impressing structure globular in shape with white marble walls all around and in the centre is placed a luminescent crystal ball lending the place an ethereal look.