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“Having read the report circulated under the title “Auroville Sangha” and given
myself the time to assimilate its contents and its implications:
Apart from the excerpts of texts written by Sri Aurobindo, which always throw open
the doors to a truer world, no matter the context in which they are referred to, I
found that this report, beyond the claim to freedom of development it expresses, is
most vague, ambiguous and misleading.
The attitude it reveals is known to each of us: it is easier to invest some formal
entity with all the shadows one has not been able to offer and transform than to
own them nakedly and present them in the light of honest effort.
It seems to me that it would have been more effective, had it been possible to
truthfully do so, to point out specifically all the ways and manners by which this
formation called “the Auroville Foundation” prevented any one resident of Auroville
to follow the path of its Charter.
Yes, we do know for certain that that a particular individual, having been entrusted
with a degree of legal and social power, has indeed taken a number of actions
which were mainly oriented by spite and resentment; but that they have succeeded
in producing unfortunate results only gives a measure of our inertia and absence of
dedication.
We have been given all the conditions necessary for the birth and growth of more
than a Sangha.
It is we alone who are to blame for not making right use of the gift.
The dedication required from each of us is the missing element; nothing else!
And it would be a vain and futilely dangerous illusion to now incite to a parallel
attempt at realising the truth of Auroville, when all around us the consequences of
our own carelessness are gaping.
No Sangha will ever be manifest without the individual and collective discipline
freely chosen by each of those who will be its parts.
Therefore no arbitrary imposition of this discipline needs to be made.
This is the logic of the matter.
If such arbitrariness does try to enter, it only shows that the free choice has not
been made: it can only enter through the weakness of our pretences.
And Auroville, Their Auroville, the Mother’s and Sri Aurobindo’s Auroville, is more
than a Sangha.
It is a bomb of Truth, if only we could let it be, by adhering actively and directing
all the energies we are able to muster.
Please, just look around you: Auroville is asking for true life.
Every activity asks for an impetus and a fire, every bit of its matter asks for care,
every one of its movements asks for creativity.
There is not a single area in Auroville today where one may feel it is the way it is
meant to be.
Is that the “Auroville Foundation’s” fault?”