We would like to work with ideas that lead to a widening of outlook and refinement of existing practices. Anything which has an upward or forward movement, that is, anything which goes from step to higher step, falls within the purview of the AuroJeeva Trust. And to facilitate this, the role of the Trustees is of paramount importance.
“All wealth belongs to the Divine and those who hold it are trustees, not possessors. It is with them today, tomorrow it may be elsewhere. All depends on the way they discharge their trust while it is with them, in what spirit, with what consciousness in their use of it, to what purpose.
… Be entirely selfless, entirely scrupulous, exact, careful in detail, a good trustee; always consider that is her possessions and not your own that you are handling.” – Sri Aurobindo
The Team
Shonar, Chiranjeevi Kilari, Nihar Joshi
A drifter by nature, Shonar has worked in several varied sectors including the music industry, environmental reportage for television, travel journalism, animal welfare, farming and horticulture. She has authored ‘Of Past Dawns and Future Noons’, ‘Until the Next Time…’, and compiled ‘All Creatures Great and Small’. Drawn to the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, she has tried to apply their ideas to her own life and via the AuroJeeva Trust hopes to also extend the guiding principles of an evolving human consciousness to other areas of activity.
She resides currently in Pondicherry with her two dogs.
Chiranjeevi brings in forty years of insightful experience in grassroots level rural development. He is currently serving on the Board of Rashtriya Seva Samithi (rassngo.org) – a premier social service and research development organisation. He formerly served as Chairman, Balaji Bala Vikas – an integrated child welfare project; and Director, Sarvam – a unit of Sri Aurobindo Society (aurosociety.org), working on alternative approaches to rural development. He is based in Pondicherry and is currently focussing on studies to explore how humanity, both in its individual and its social units, can accelerate its evolution through a progressive influence and action of subjective and transcendental resources; and to develop practicable interventions to facilitate this movement.
Nihar has been in the field of education for the last 25 years. She was a teacher with the Shri Ram School for 15 years after which she went onto develop after-school classes of her own. She continues to serve as a board member of the Eicher schools. An avid reader, she has been deeply affected and impressed upon by the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and believes all life to be sacred. She lives in New Delhi with her husband and two children.