Sri Aurobindo and Human Unity* Amaury de Riencourt THE fundamental problem of human unity appears insoluble under The problem is all the more acute in that this implosion has increased tensions between many human groups rather than decreased them. The search for national and cultural identity, now threatened by the depersonalization caused by an anonymous industrial civilization, is prompting many to look back wistfully at the past in an attempt to find roots and a sense of personal destiny that are being stripped away by this convergence itself. The very elements that could have provided links with which to consolidate human unity are being thrown overboard since t

Auroville — A Model of Human Unity* Navajata AUNIQUE project drawing attention all over the world is "Auroville", a universal town of culture and research which is being established in South India, near Pondicherry. In Auroville men and women of all countries will be able to live in peace and progressive harmony, above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. Its purpose is to realise human unity. Auroville proposes to realise this unity in freedom and diversity — in multiplicity — and not in uniformity, a spiritual unity reflecting itself in a psychological unity of one family and one origin, but expressing itself in the diversities of life. When completed

Sri Aurobindo as Seer-Poet* Dilip Kumar Roy 'T'O be utterly sure of the evidence of Sri Aurobindo's greatness I have often of late cross-questioned myself: "What was the storm-sweep that uprooted you from your native soil of poetry and music, laughter and popularity, to be flung at his feet in eager self-surrender more than four decades ago ?" It is not a question easy to answer because, to quote Nive-dita, our deepest convictions often enough spring from data which can convince no one but ourselves. I can only say that in his presence I felt myself gripped by a silence, wonder and intense longing to lay my utter self at his feet and lie cradled in his indefinable Grac

APPENDIX I National Committee for the Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary, 1972 Patron President (Shri V. V. Giri) Chairman Prime Minister (Shrimati Indira Gandhi) Vice-Chairmen Education Minister (Dr. V. K. R. V. Rao; Shri Siddhartha Sankar Ray; Prof. Nurul Hasan) Lt.-Governor, Pondicherry (Shri B. D. Jatti) Shri Farouk Maricar Convener Dr. Karan Singh Members Shri Bishwanarayan Shastri, M.P. Dr. D. S. Kothari, Chairman, U.G.C. Shri Ganga Saran Sinha, M.P. Shri G. Parthasarathy, Vice-Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University Dr. Hare Krushna Mahtab Shri J. J. Bhabha Shri Kedar Nath Mookherjee