Just Clicking !!!

I just love them !!

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Early Morning Sun Rise !!

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Always on your Feet !!

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GAS

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Beautiful !!! Isn't she ?? Anyone who knows her name?

Its Green Out There !

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This one is a snapshot of a garden at Ramoji Filmcity in Hyderabad. Did you notice the tail of the elephant??

Coffee Time !

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This is a snapshot of the Menu at a cafe in Mahabalipuram. Wanna order something?

Charte d' Auroville - 26.02.1968

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The Auroville Charter. Click on the picture to enlarge and read....!! To know more about Auroville see the previous posts in January

Rock The DJ !!!

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These pictures of the DJ playing at my office Annual Founder's Day Celebration !!!

Hyderabad Central

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Pictures of Hyderabad Central at Panjagutta, Hyderabad during Diwali festival 2007

Sunset @ Rooftop

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Sunset at rooftop. Had a tough time to click this one.

Nature @ its best !!!

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Lemons @ Rooftop

Sunrise at Mahabalipuram

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If you click on the picture and enlarge it you will notice a boat at far distance !

Flying High High !!

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Pictures taken on way from Bangalore to Hyderabad....on Spicejet Airline

Nature's Fury

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This picture was taken on 15/4/2007 around 12 midnight....it was raining cats and dogs...

Camera Used: Canon IXY DIGITAL 60
Exposure Time: 1 sec.
F-stop: f/2.8

Readers Invited.....

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These are postings at Auroville...

Waves of Freedom

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Pictures taken at the beach in Pondycherry on New Years eve 2008 !!!

Colors of India

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Local villagers walking out of the Temple after offering prayers

The Shore Temple

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Pillars of Time

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The pillars and the carvings in the above pics. are from Monolithic Temples known as "Rathas" carved from a rock dating back to 630-668 AD at Mahabalipuram, India.

Footprints on the Shore

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Those are my footprints on the sea shore....

The Matrimandir

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A place...for trying to find one's consciousness.

It is like the Force, the central Force of Auroville,
the cohesive Force of Auroville.
The Mother

Matrimandir
At the very centre of Auroville one finds the 'soul of the city', the Matrimandir, situated in a large open area called 'Peace', from where the future township will radiate outwards. The atmosphere is quiet and charged, and the area beautiful, even though at present large parts of it are still under construction.

As yet incomplete, the Matrimandir emerges as a large golden sphere which seems to be rising out of the earth, symbolising the birth of a new consciousness seeking to manifest. Its slow and steady progress towards completion is followed by many.

While walking through the lovely green Matrimandir Gardens with their great variety of flowers, shrubs and trees, one's attention is greatly drawn by this important and powerful feature at the heart of the city which was seen by the Mother as the "symbol of the Divine's answer to man's aspiration for perfection" and as "the central cohesive force" for the growth of Auroville.

Evolutionary principle
The name 'Matrimandir' means literally 'Temple of the Mother'. According to Sri Aurobindo's teaching, the 'Mother' concept stands for the great evolutionary, conscious and intelligent principle of Life, the Universal Mother, - which seeks to help humanity move beyond its present limitations into the next step of its evolutionary adventure, the supramental consciousness.

Inner Chamber
The spacious Inner Chamber in the upper hemisphere of the structure is completely white, with white marble walls and white carpeting. In the centre a pure crystal-glass globe suffuses a ray of electronically guided sunlight which falls on it through an opening at the apex of the sphere.
"The most important thing is this: the play of the sun on the centre. Because that becomes the symbol, the symbol of future realisations."

There are no images, no organised meditations, no flowers, no incense, no religion or religious forms.

To find one's consciousness..
The Matrimandir is there for "those who want to learn to concentrate.." "No fixed meditations, none of all that, but they should stay there in silence, in silence and concentration. A place for trying to find one's consciousness."

No religion
"Let it not become a religion", the Mother said. "The failure of religions is... because they were divided. They wanted people to be religious to the exclusion of other religions, and every branch of knowledge has been a failure because it has been exclusive.
What the new consciousness wants (it is on this that it insists) is: no more divisions.
To be able to understand the spiritual extreme, the material extreme, and to find the meeting point, the point where that becomes a real force."

The Lotus Bud

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This Lotus Bud at Matrimandir, Auroville contains soil from 132 countries who were the founding members of Auroville.

Ladies in White

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I met them at Matrimandir in Auroville

Smile please

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Another tourist i met at Mahabalipuram. He was very happy to pose for me!

What is she thinking?

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I met this little girl outside the temple at Pondicherry and asked her to pose for me. I am wondering what she was thinking looking at the camera. I never asked who she was, where she was from.....