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Visitors Park: creation of a fairly large Park area to cater for visitors,
expressing the sense of beauty, cleanliness, harmony and
collaboration with Nature; this Park to be situated near to the Visitors
Centre, up to and around the water body there and along the road to
Edayachavadi; eventually this area could be enclosed, and the right of
entry be charged a token amount, for its maintenance and upkeep.”
(Note: as of summer 2005, only Point 1, Point 2a, parts of 2b, c, d, e and f, a small
beginning of Point 3a, b and c, parts of Point 4a, b and c, and parts of Point 6a and
b have been implemented.)
- On society and governance in Auroville:
“We are not here to make classes and castes and categories.
We are here to make, to let her make, Aurovilians.
We are not here to make producers, bureaucrats, artists, servants, missionaries.
We are here to become men and women with living souls, incarnating the same
need into every activity, every area of existence and every movement.
It is discovery. It is adventure. It is work, serious work!
We do not need committees and groups ad perpetuam.
We need dedicated people and the courage to serve the truth of the Charter in all
its implications.
The less committed we are to that truth and the more fearful we grow of control:
and the further away we push from us the opportunity to truly grow.
Auroville is a field of action, change, transformation and becoming, that rests on a
solid ground of Truth: it is a Gift.
If we are unwilling to serve it, we must be made to leave.
The Working Committee as a function is indispensable: a part of the organism of
Auroville.
But the way it is presently manifested only adds to the pervading confusion.
For it cannot and must not be an instrument of the “collective will”, unless that
particular collective has reached a Gnostic stage. An unenlightened collective will
can only lead to disaster and betrayal.
Instead the Working Committee must be, must learn to be, an instrument of the
Truth of Auroville.
The Working Committee is meant to be the central channel for administering
Auroville: its resources, its needs and its means of action.
Therefore what is termed as FAMC (Funds and Assets Management Committee) is
simply one of the activities of the Working Committee, as are ABC (Auroville Board
of Commerce), or the Visa and Entry Services and the Economy Group.
In order to do its work it must fulfil its first mandate, which is to actively seek to
serve the Charter of Auroville: it must in that sense act as the steward and
guardian of the integrity of Auroville, and be held accountable for it.