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We have to link.
Services such as “Nandini”, “Pour Tous”, “Prosperity”, “Housing Group”,
“Development Group”, Economy Group”, “Bridging Fund”, “Maintenance Fund”,
Water, Electricity and Telephone Services, etc. must all redefine their present
functions and reassess their motivations in the light of a common coordination
towards the material expression of Auroville’s raison d’être.
We are so wary of centralisation and the misuse of power that we keep breeding
more groups and committees, which only aggravate the confusion and waste the
energies.
No diffusion can take place without a centre.
This centre we must find, and discipline ourselves around it.
There needs to be a central awareness in the form of a core group of coordination
acting as a living channel at the service of Auroville’s truth and purpose.
This core group must be presented with a transparent and comprehensive picture of
all the resources available as well as of all the needs, and inform the various
services accordingly.
This is not going to realise itself, nor anything we truly wish, without dedication and
hard work.
It will not do to sit weekly or bi-weekly and talk.
It will not do to open a service three afternoons a week.
It will not do to multiply attempts that merely undermine each other.
If we are loaded today with almost a hundred units and delude ourselves that these
complications are the expression of diversity, we have only ourselves to blame, that
is, the forces that in us resist the multiple manifestation of Truth’s simplicity!”
- Letter to the Financial Service:
“Greetings.This is to request you to release the amounts kept in the individual “in
kind” accounts for all those who are listed as Matrimandir Workers, as and when
they will ask for it in cash.
We had wished earlier this year to support practical steps towards the shift to an
economy more open to the inner dynamics of Auroville.
We had hoped that the various services would be sufficiently motivated to take up
the task and begin to create channels for the provision of individual needs “in kind”;
that a coordination would be activated between these services and the Financial
service so that, even when goods are not produced in Auroville as yet, they could
be acquired; that this effort at collective organisation would trigger a development
more faithful to Auroville’s essential thrust.
However, this progress seems to be hampered in many ways and more time seems
to be needed.
Meanwhile the present situation is confusing and causes practical problems for
many of the persons concerned.
We would like to collaborate with the different services so as to establish a clearer
basis for this practical orientation.
At the service of Truth,
For Matrimandir”