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First of all, no manifestation is possible without harmony; harmony is a constituent
of any and all manifestation: within a given manifestation there is harmony even in
destruction.
There is thus harmony in disintegration as well as in formation.
Distanciation from this occurs with man, the transitional being, and humanity, the
transitional species.
Ego is in man the means of this Distanciation, as it is the agent of individualisation.
There is disruption.
And therein comes the necessity to identify the next level of harmony and to
choose to attune to it.
As the range of experience in diversity has increased, so has the range and
gradation of the levels and states of harmony which man, as an individual or as a
group, strives to reach, attune or open to, facilitate or incarnate.
In the course of evolution accordingly humanity, through its individuals as through
its groupings, has developed various affinities and capacities of attunement to
many states and levels of harmony, across the entire field of its activities.
It has also learnt that, once certain conditions are fulfilled, a degree of harmony
results or, rather, is let in. The forms these conditions take may vary, but there are
constant characteristics, such as discipline, attention, dedication and steadfastness.
Whether in arts, in techniques or in the realm of organisation, whether in science or
philosophy, whether in the culture of the body’s capacities or in the development of
spiritual experience, harmony can flood in and settle only when these conditions are
met.
However, the mere fact of harmony prevailing in any particular context or situation
is no guarantee, of and by itself, that what is actually taking place is beneficial or
serves the purposes of evolution.
Through sheer discipline and coordination, a particular group may indeed achieve
harmony while it is engaged in the most destructive and adverse endeavours.
Therefore the distinction has had to be made between this harmony which is merely
the satisfying result of order and discipline, and the spiritual component of
harmony, to which one must make the effort to unite consciously.
Yet as, we know, in order to become able to unite with the spiritual level of
harmony, one must have undergone a reversal of consciousness. And it is fact of
experience that such a reversal of consciousness as the spiritual birth has, one
might say as a side effect, the power to throw off whatever state of harmony was
previously established.
It is unquestionably clear, individually as well as collectively, that the entry of a
further degree of awareness – be it through a revelation, an opening or a descent –
invariably causes a disruption of the established order which is commensurate to its
power of realisation and its evolutionary implications.
Thus, as we are subjected to an acceleration of both the processes of evolution and
incarnation, we are bound to be exposed to a proportionate increase of such
disruptions, and faced more and more imperatively with the necessity of centring
into the living, essential truth of our being.
In Auroville, we are expected to strive towards both the unification of all our
individualities around the central truth and the integrality of manifestation.