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convoitise pour l’exercice arbitraire du pouvoir, sait ceci : qu’il est impossible de

maintenir intégralement à la fois un vrai détachement et une vraie maîtrise de

l’exercice du pouvoir, tant que notre nature même n’est pas transformée, c’est-à-

dire entièrement et de fond en comble convertie à la réalité souveraine de la

conscience.

Pour conclure, je dirai donc ceci : si vous souhaitez vraiment collaborer au

changement nécessaire et servir une transformation réelle et durable de l’état du

monde, vous vous devez d’ouvrir vos pages et le champ de votre travail aux

contributions de tous ceux qui sont maintenant convaincus que le seul chemin

vivant est à trouver dans l’aventure de la conscience.

Je n’aurai pas la présomption de vouloir vous indiquer où vous tourner, ni où vous

adresser.

Je souhaite seulement vous communiquer la certitude que, du moment où vous le

voudrez, les données utiles vous parviendront.

A vous d’exercer le discernement nécessaire pour ne pas verser dans un genre

d’excès et de surenchère dont vous êtes sûrement prévenus.

Fraternellement,

Divakar »

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Note: In Auroville’s entire history so far, one could attribute a kind of “permanent

status” to certain issues, as they keep recurring or resurfacing, only more loaded

and more complex, as if they had never been addressed.

One of these permanent issues is that of land.

Land had and still has to be purchased from local land-owners, to be placed under

Auroville’s name – now it is the Auroville Foundation’s name.

In effect Auroville becomes the “owner”, even though both the Charter of Auroville

and the Auroville Foundation Act state that there is no ownership in Auroville and

Auroville itself belongs to “humanity as a whole”, making of the residents and their

organisation the stewards of the land on behalf of humanity rather than their

proprietors.

But this distinction between owners and stewards is a very fine line in the minds of

most people. For the villagers of the area, who were initially very deeply moved by

the Mother’s dream and action and responsive to Her and very hopeful and

generally trusting, later experience has often been the cause of scepticism,

disillusion and sometimes deep hurt and intense resentment.

To date, in 2005, thousands of acres still need to be purchased in order to

consolidate the Auroville area.

During the past 10 or 15 years prices have soared and escalated, partly through the

exponential development on the adjacent Pondichéry territory, partly through the

promoting campaigns of various private developers making use of Auroville’s name

and fame, and partly through the sometimes bizarre policies applied by the

Aurovilians concerned with the purchase of land and the relations with the villagers.