{"product_id":"auroville-or-the-quest-for-christine-devin-9781788943734","title":"Auroville, or the quest for a better world: past, present, and future","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuroville, 1968, an elderly woman who had not left her room for a long time, located in a southern Indian ashram, invites young people from all over the world to follow her in a great adventure: creating a city, a new kind of a city, with its charter defined as follows: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eAuroville belongs to nobody in particular. Auroville belongs to humanity as a whole. But to live in Auroville, one must be a willing servitor of the Divine Consciousness.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAuroville will be the place of an unending education, of constant progress, and a youth that never ages.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAuroville 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.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAuroville will be a site of material and spiritual research for a living embodiment of an actual Human Unity.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eSurprisingly, people started to respond. The adventure began. This ashram is the community of disciples gathered around the great revolutionary, poet and visionary, Sri Aurobindo. The elderly lady, who will be called the Mother, is a Frenchwoman who worked alongside Sri Aurobindo for more than thirty years. In 1968, Sri Aurobindo is no more, but the Mother is still at the head of the Ashram, and it is she who launches this rather ambitious project called \u003cem\u003eAuroville\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher's note: \u003c\/strong\u003e In order to be more enjoyable during reading, this book is in 6\" x 9\" format. In the same spirit, the paper is cream-colored, which causes less fatigue to the eyes than white paper. All our publications are carefully crafted, both in terms of typography as well as design.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e422 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christine Devin, Collective Work\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1788943732\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781788943734\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Discovery Publisher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/22\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 424\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d","brand":"Christine Devin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46489306104063,"sku":"9781788943734","price":23.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_79022d0f-1d56-411c-8a12-b6ac809522de.jpg?v=1736953151","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/auroville-or-the-quest-for-christine-devin-9781788943734","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}