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of worlds and states; I need to feel and know that the stones assembled to shelter
me are at peace, in harmony, and the sound of my voice is as pleasant to them as
the sight and touch of them is comforting to me; that the colours in the sky that
make me silently grateful are thrilled and justified as thus delight is born again and
again.
I need to feel and know that when I meet an opacity, an obscurity, here or there, it
is a gift of growth, it is a travail with its own pure sense of becoming.
I need to discover the material ways that will foster and celebrate a continuum of
consciousness.
What are your needs?
Where do they lead us?
What are the choices they will revel as we go?
Living trust in the Grace that alone can guide Auroville is of the inner being: the
only one who, after all, being immortal, possesses maturity!
5- Practical suggestions.
(Corrigendum: these are bound to be off the mark, since no one can singly identify
the practical ways of conscious growth!)
We have made a confusion between maintenance and development.
Seen from another angle, it is the same confusion that has prevailed between a
community-type of organisation with its needs of survival and its own agenda of
achievements, and a vaster concept of laboratory-city-representation at the service
of Truth and of the future of humanity, which is an experiment of universal import
and concern.
These two avenues of growth have for years conflicted in all of our attitudes.
In themselves, though, these are not conflicting notions, for the former is part of
the latter; it must only find its true place and relation.
In effect, Auroville is indeed meant to be a community of stewards, servitors and
willing subjects of an experiment in accelerated change.
With all the responsibilities this entails for everyone present and the essential
relatedness it promotes with the whole world.
The effort to support the basic necessities of the people who have chosen to give
their lives is a duty with us, and particularly with those of us who have the
inclination and the sort of nature to serve in this area.
The effort to develop, to create new forms, to reach towards an integrality and
completeness of realisation in life and matter, if it must be consciously monitored
and sometimes even initiated by us in Auroville, must necessarily, and meaningfully
so, draw the contribution of all those who are motivated to work for Auroville
without themselves living there.
It is so that every Aurovilian must first work for the basic priorities of Auroville; and
only when those are ensured, may we turn towards an augmentation of Auroville’s
possibilities.