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B.
All the working groups are represented and participating in an overall forum
of responsibility where all the facets and fields of progress are seen together
in a common perspective.
In this sense I was in agreement with the parallel proposal put out recently by your
team for an Auroville Representatives Group. Out of this, I felt, one would
eventually become able to define the task and methods of work of such a necessary
organ as the Working Committee.
Now as regards your first proposal I find that, instead of calling everyone’s
attention on the contradictions you have directly experienced and see develop in
Auroville in the context of your work, instead of naming these contradictions
precisely and perhaps even outlining courses of action which could at least
neutralise them, instead of fulfilling that duty, you have proceeded on a line of least
resistance and elaborated a proposal that merely tries to give a coherent frame to
contain these prevailing contradictions.
And you have justified this with the formal acceptance of a very misleading
assumption: that Auroville has now reached a stage where its outward development
will move faster than the growth of its consciousness.
When this assumption is left unchallenged, the use of logic will be very effective in
making it unassailable.
But I feel that this assumption is false, and that it betrays Auroville.
2- Objection on contents.
Your work naturally makes you very aware of those individuals and areas of activity
in Auroville most in need of economical health. And no one will doubt that you have
persistently endeavoured to improve this situation, within the boundaries allotted to
you.
But you ought not to use this real need for pushing your proposal through.
Instead, you ought first to deliver a complete report of your findings, describing as
accurately as possible the injustices and the contradictions.
Your knowledge of facts should be shared without bias.
We are not here to succeed in “managing” an international community.
We are here to change, and to become truer.
Experience is to be shared.
Contradictions are to be seen.
Stock is to be repeatedly taken.
3- On Development.
If in visible and measurable terms the growth of the physical Auroville is no longer
commensurate with the growth of the collective consciousness that inhabits it, then
it means that it has taken off on its own: and that is only possible by a return to
the values and compulsions of the ordinary world.