***** Contact Info The head office of the Sri Aurobindo Society is located at: Sri Aurobindo Society Society House No. 11, St. Martin Street Puducherry - 605 001, India. General enquiry: Office hours:  IST 9:00 am – 12:00 pm & 2:00 pm – 5:30 pm Phone: +91-413-2336396 / 97 / 98 Email: info@aurosociety.org Website: aurosociety.org Sri Aurobindo Society was founded in 1960 by the Mother to pioneer the adventure of exploring the frontiers of this New Consciousness and its expression through all aspects of our individual and collective. It is a registered society with its chief administrative offi

Website : www.auroville.org What is Auroville? Auroville is a universal township in the making for a population of up to 50,000 people from around the world. How did Auroville begin? The concept of Auroville - an ideal township devoted to an experiment in human unity - came to the Mother as early as the 1930s. In the mid 1960s the Sri Aurobindo Society in Pondicherry proposed to Her that such a township should be started. She gave her blessings. The concept was then put before the Govt. of India, who gave their backing and took it to the General Assembly of UNESCO. In 1966 UNESCO passed a unanimous resolution commending it as a pr