Episode 16: Chapter 15

Krishna reads The Ideal of Human Unity, one of the important texts written by the great Indian philosopher, Sri Aurobindo. This podcast is part of a celebration of the 150th birth anniversary and is organised by Auroville Art Service. https://artservice.auroville.org/donate-2/ Artists and the arts, forever core to the very survival of any sane, breathing community, are perhaps all the more precious in the context of Auroville, which aims to be a living experiment in the greatest heights that the human spirit can soar to. With a huge diversity of cultures, races, languages and social strata richly represented in its international population of about 3000, Auroville has already produced and is home to accomplished painters and sculptors, musicians and composers, dancers and choreographers, writers and filmmakers, actors and directors. These artists are dedicating their lives to realising the ideal of an integrated consciousness through the courageous, original, often tumultous and uncertain journey of the artistic endeavour. Not motivated or dominated by market forces, their work wants instead to be an expression of a new consciousness, something that will progressively nourish and energize the human soul and the city in a vast variety of ways. We are driven by a passion for the arts and a deep sense of service and responsibility to the artists, to the receivers of the arts, and to the Dream and values of Auroville itself. Transparency and openness to change remain core to our ethos and the services we offer to the community. Read more about our values and who we are. The arts will exist — Sri Aurobindo wrote in The Life Divine — ‘as expressions and means of the truth of the spirit and the beauty and delight of existence’. This is the challenge before artists in Auroville and all those around the world inspired by the Dream. We invite you to participate in this exciting endeavour with financial contributions that are very much required and deeply appreciated. https://artservice.auroville.org/donate-2/