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Therefore we are left with a nonsensical choice: either we continue with the
pretence of calling it Auroville and we adjust and adapt, inwardly dying; or we go
“underground”, like stunned fools, seeking initiates and the select few.
Either way, the gift of possibility that Auroville is, stands betrayed.
So, we must take stock.
Our law of development is that it must be integral: that its forms must correspond
to its consciousness.
This means that any development must either be the expression of a new
awareness, of a new comprehension that has emerged, or been gained through
actual experience, or be an experiment which is backed by actual commitment and
deemed worthwhile.
Yet it would appear that quite a range of other motivations are already determining
a number of outward developments in Auroville.
What do we do about it?
How do we resolve our view on the real priorities?
The Ideal has been fragmented.
Perhaps it is because it was not initially secured by an active inner realisation, but
was merely apprehended by the outer being and subjected to its exclusivism and
limitations.
But this fragmentation should not now become an excuse for not trying any more.
On the contrary, we should see it, as a result and not as a guide, and we should
seek to shift the entire process of our choices.
Through the years of Auroville we have progressed and we have learnt lessons and
developed a unique experience.
We have also yielded to falsities.
Can we assess the ones and the others?
Physically Auroville is increasingly surrounded by the constant and multitudinous
pressure of the very type of development which, as willing servitors, we cannot
condone.
We cannot block off the world.
But we can, and we must, affirm our true priorities.
For too long now we have been sending out the wrong messages, thus inviting
through weak affinity into Auroville motives and interests which, by their gradual
establishment, are bound to alienate us more and more from the very purpose of
our coming to Auroville in the first place.
Yet it is our responsibility alone to first develop in ourselves the attitude that will
attract the right energies for Auroville, with the right motivations and in the right
manner.
This is our dharma.
Any representation of Auroville in the world should be charged with that quality of
need and awareness.