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I am only opposed to his claims and concepts, and have been so for a long time,
insofar as they exclude the many indications the Mother herself has given of Her
own Wish and Her own Dream.
And that is all.
There is nothing else.
These indications of Hers do not concern only the terms of the physical
environment and atmosphere and approach She has described for the Matrimandir,
but also the very terms of the relationships She has wanted to see established in
Auroville, and particularly around the Matrimandir.
All of these, whether on the material plane or on the psychological plane, point to
the need for complementarity, integrality, collaboration, pre-empting any attempt
at absolute authority, at exclusivism, at personal ambition.
Yet we have now a situation wherein the conflict between the integral approach of
the Mother’s dream – with a secluded parkland, solitary and silent, at its centre –
and the exclusive approach of the “Chief Architect”’s concept is edging onto the
material plane.
The “Town Hall Annex” is nearing completion: trees have been felled overnight so
as to provide an uninterrupted view of the gilded Matrimandir, gilded and
resplendent out of its twelve red petals, but naked of its environment, its
atmosphere, its isolation which the Mother had wished.
No more park, no more isolating zone, no more gardens, but a direct, unimpeded,
forceful entry of the city into the space of its soul.
It is of interest to note, in this regard, that the first building element that the “chief
architect” has elected to have materialised is to house together the Central
Financial organ, the Central Urban Planning organ and the central Organisational
organ of Auroville: the nexus of authority-power-control.
There are implications to these steps that have been and are being taken by the
“chief architect” and his followers, which ought to be seriously debated among us
all, considering that our collectivity is a grouping of individuals who have freely
chosen to come together for a new and true adventure of consciousness – and not
to be mere followers.
Unfortunately, what is mostly debated is not the real issue.
The real issue is whether the Mother, who has founded Auroville and inwardly called
each of us here, knew best what kind of environment the soul of the experiment
ought to have, or if this knowledge of Hers was just as temporal and relative as the
“Chief Architect”’s knowledge or any one of us’ understanding of the role of the
soul.
What is mostly debated instead is whether or not the (in)famous five of us, or more
specifically Arjun and myself (we have shared the dubious privilege of being
targeted over the years) are indeed adverse forces or not and how to get rid of us
or make us run for cover.
And here I come back to the question of the means being used, with some
examples.