Life
Life in other cultures
China: to stand + the sun + the heart.
Arabic: To have an interest in; something with a meaning.
Africa: Chad: We
Vietnam: Mind and meaning
Africa: Benin: Life and God, the world.
Africa: Country? The Why?
Tibet: Aim, goal, the others and myself.
Southern India: New life.
German: The way, to move.
Indonesia: to love, to share.
Somali: Water = life
Croatia: Thought
Hungary: Ertelen. He, she understands.
Latvia: To understand
Arabic: Mansur, maksut: Goal, aim
Japan: man + life
Sanksrit, India: artha–wealth, not to be understood solely as material assets, but all kinds of wealth including non-tangibles such as knowledge, friendship, and love. Artha is one of the four purusarthas or “goals of life”, the others being dharma, kama and moksa
"Auroville wants to be a universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to realise human unity."
Auroville Charter
Auroville belongs to nobody in particular.
Auroville belongs to humanity as a whole.
But to live in Auroville, one must be the willing servitor of the Divine Consciousness.
Auroville will be the place of an unending education, of constant progress, and a youth that never ages.
Auroville wants to be the bridge between the past and the future. Taking advantage of all discoveries from without and from within, Auroville will boldly spring towards future realisations. Auroville will be a site of material and spiritual researches for a living embodiment of an actual Human Unity.
Auroville is home to around 4500 residents from 67 different countries as of 2021.