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- Membership is for a minimum of one full year.
- The work of the Entry Group requires mobility, so as to assess the physical
situations directly; an effective secretariat, to minimise all chances of confusion,
delays and misunderstandings; an active coordination with other working groups
and with the Residents Assembly.
- The Entry Group is there to serve actively the spirit and truth of the Charter of
Auroville. It must enable itself to establish an atmosphere as conscious as possible,
so that the process of admission to Auroville is governed increasingly by the true
spirit of Auroville, rather than be the realm of human inadequacies. It must never
hesitate to point out whatever contradictions may be prevailing at the time in the
collective life of Auroville.
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Note: The drive to corner and hang our team was relentless, and despite our
statements and expressions of a call for genuine collaboration, the planned
Residents Assembly loomed closer, which would surely kill the possibility
represented by the Matrimandir Forum. I drafted the following statement, as a last
attempt to save it. I have not kept the exact date.
*Communication to all from the MMCG.
“We do not feel that this Assembly is being called on a sound basis, but mainly as a
result of a build-up of frustrations and tensions, battling of wills and influences.
Yet, as it is anyway happening, we wish to communicate to each one present the
following, attempting to express in a general way our understanding of the situation
and our position as a team.
We deeply understand how difficult and challenging a proposition is the
Matrimandir; how difficult and challenging a proposition is human unity.
And we feel that it is mostly due to the fact that as individuals and as a group we
have not attained the commensurate level of consciousness, that we are all
repeatedly swept and manipulated by forces which seek to destroy, prevent or at
least postpone.
All through these past years, notwithstanding the endorsement by many of the view
that we have become a separate body, we feel that we have each of us remained
and grown as “Aurovilian” as the next one, and as representative of the community
as the next one. With as many shortcomings and as much capacity to serve as the
next one.
There is not a single issue being raised at present that we have not debated at
length in the context of our duties at Matrimandir.
We seem to have made in the process a lot of “enemies” on all sides, mainly
because we have not adhered blindly to the exclusivism of any “side”.
We could not do so, being so close to the needs of the Matrimandir and all the
aspects of the work to be done.