Guiding Light of The Month

O Lord, how ardently do I call and implore Thy love! Grant that my aspiration may be intense enough to awaken the same aspiration everywhere: oh, may good- ness, justice and peace reign as supreme masters, may ignorant egoism be overcome, darkness be suddenly illu- minated by Thy pure Light; may the blind see, the deaf hear, may Thy law be proclaimed in every place and, in a constantly progressive union, in an ever more perfect harmony, may all, like one single being, stretch out their arms towards Thee to identify themselves with Thee and manifest Thee upon earth. - The Mother

The Secret Diamond


A space where the land, trees, flowers and every structure aspires and each breathe, a miracle spawn out of a beautiful dream that the Mother had. The place is made a field of discovery with little amazing experiments that each one performs within oneself and with everyone around. Auroville, a land, where equality and human unity are there in each step, where we do less but feel more, has emerged into an exciting place for the flow of Her energy.

This book, “Tell me, my friend, what is this Auroville”, describes this place in a magical way, with all love and strikingly colourful pictures. The narration, story-like, almost a guessing game is most inviting for little kids, for them to get a sense of the future growing in there and to be with it. There is a little introduction of how the seed was sown for the growth of this place and then the story begins.

It starts with a rabbit asking the banyan “Tell me, my friend, what is this Auroville?”. The dialogue is narrated as a dream that the rabbit has when it sleeps under the banyan. In the dream, the banyan tree takes us on a beautiful journey of what that place would be. Each view is an answer for the question that the rabbit asks the banyan and it is matched with capturing paintings in bright colours.
We all stand together, holding hands, in a circle. That’s not just a circle; Her jewel, a bracelet probably, each one of us a bead in it, the centre of which is adorned with a beautiful shining diamond. The one very same thing that connects us all. Next time we go to Auroville, let’s ask the banyan tree, where the diamond is!!
- Sandhya

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