Winter News

Winter in Auroville brings a sigh of relief as the tropical earth for just once in the year cools down at night. Days are pleasant and not too hot and the nights are crisp and divine. It’s good timing though for us to present our range of hand knitted garments, our own cartoons on Auroville (what better than curling up with a book of laughs in winter ?), our beautiful Christmas lights and Maroma Sama range. You can hibernate your wintery eves with the grace of Auroville’s handmade products which have been made with utmost care and respect for the earth always and the sale of which helps to support one of the oldest and most successfull conscious communities on Earth. In a time when people are occuping Wall Street and more, we should all take our awareness back to the persistant few who have occupied the barren lands of Tamil Nadu and greened them and now their children and grandchildren are producing the most beautiful products produced in karma yoga and all life-is-yoga, yoga.

Presenting: Auromics

Hand-knitted sweaters & crochet in organic cotton, silk or cotton. Each article is hand made by artisans in the villages surrounding Auroville. Up to date design, quality control and training is ensured by a professional team with experience in european markets.

Maroma's Sama Range

These Sama Indian Herbals, Triple milled, handmade soaps are formulated with an exceptional blend of herbal extracts and essential oils that gently cleanses and restores the moisture balance to your skin These ”masala” incense sticks are hand rolled using a traditional formula and are a blend of the finest aromatic herbal extracts, essential oils, resins, gums and sandalwood paste. These natural ingredients combine to produce a smooth, slow-burning incense. 

Explore the full Sama range.

Beejika : Seeds of Life

With Beejika, With the Beejika range of items, Shradhanjali showcases the exquisite artistry of Nature, reflected in the seeds of Auroville’s trees, planted over the last 40 years. It is our wish to help preserve nature’s incredibly rich diversity and to create awareness and knowledge about the importance of protecting the environment. We invite you to join us in our efforts. The range presently consists of cards, jewelry accessories (earrings, bracelets and necklaces), decorative flowers, hanging mobiles, an abacus with seeds etc and new products are being envisaged. Profits from these products go towards planting indigenous trees.

Explore Our Newest Book Offering

The Salt...of Life

This book is a compilation of cartoons on Auroville, over a period of 16 years. It covers topics of Auroville collective life and the difficulties on the path of Yoga depicted in a humoristic way. "Sense of Humor? it is the salt of existence. Without it the world would have got utterly out of balance - it is unbalanced enough already - and rushed to a blaze long ago." Sri Aurobindo

Light for the Festive Season

Maroma's splendid new TRUE line Luminary Votives exemplifies the wise old adage "less is more". These products are simply formulated to be as pure and natural as possible. Our guiding philosophy for ingredients was: if it doesn't need to be there we leave it out. This votive is made with cotton wick and 100% natural vegetal wax so they burn cleanly and evenly.

Featuring Papui and SomethingElse

The unit Papui and SomethingElse is dedicated to The Issue which has been pushing man since the beginning of times: the search of a Truth and a Joy without end. The activities of the unit comprise of two parts:

1. The creation of books, e-books, cards, posters, licensing images, and other stationaries, featuring the character Papui and his friends. Papui is a little boy born in a time of man's history when the Essential has been forgotten, in which Love, Truth, Light, Peace, Beauty, seem to have vanished. But he moves through life experiences with an unordinary look on it, guided and inspired by... a SomethingElse. The little Papui is followed all the time by this SomethingElse which shows to him the secret treasure behind ordinary life, this Divine and Mysterious WHY still unknown and to be lived here on earth.
2. The creation of art pieces: Ethnic Paintings on stones (paintings on unsmoothened slates of stone), originals and prints. These Ethnic Paintings on stones are inspired by the scriptures of the ancient indian seers of Vedic times and by Sri Aurobindo's epic poem Savitri... and SomethingElse.

Our Winter Competition

We’ve hidden a christmas tree in
one of the products on our site.
Simply mail us telling us which
product (hint it begins with a X...).
Entries will be accepted through
31st December 2011.
Prize: A Christmas gift hamper from
Auroville