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organisational body, by introducing a “new” voting system: each Aurovilian was to
select two names; out of all the names selected, the 30 names which got the most
votes would be nominated to form a first support group; these 30 people would
then choose among themselves the 7 or 12 members of the new body, and the rest
would remain available as members of the larger support-group.
Now it was proposed to apply the same method for the election of a new
management group at Matrimandir, with the amendment that the selection must be
done from a list of those who have expressed interest and willingness to be part of
such a group…
Deepti plunged and posted a strong protest; here are some excerpts of her text:
*On the Working Committee’s most recent Matrimandir Management
proposal, from Deepti, September 24, 2002:
“So at last it is out in the open – the canker at the root of Auroville’s distorted
growth, the worm in the apple of the recent experiment in ‘new organisation’. How
reasonable the WC’s proposal sounds (funny, it’s their 5
th
or 6
th
proposal about
Matrimandir management since they came into being!). Auroville must have a
majority vote, every single adult Aurovilian must participate: let us ‘take back our
soul’!
We are ready to do to our symbol soul what we will never dream of doing to more
secular activities – can you imagine electing, by majority vote, a new management
at CSR, at Auroville Press, at Maroma… let alone at the Central Fund or Auroville
Fund, however egregious the present managers become…
But Matrimandir… is only our soul, and it ‘belongs’ to everybody (what an
oxymoron, or rather what an asuric distortion of the soul’s truth of Divine
Oneness); and so let’s call upon every Tom, Dick and Harry’s ego, jealousy, envy or
hatred to pronounce upon it. The good people, as well as the good within people,
will be fully repelled by this exercise – so all is safe… and I guess the organisers are
banking upon this fact to get things through…
… This is text-book material: first arrange a petition program, then organise a
series of meetings, get the mobs baying for the blood of those “terrible MM team
members”; when the soil is churned, a morass of mud and mire, just in time the
intelligent ones will step in with a perfectly reasonable proposal to “solve the
impasse”… These techniques have been perfected round the world in political
action… disinformation, poisoning the well… they even have names!
… Sri Aurobindo… has spoken of the sheer caddishness of human nature, and of the
evil at its root…. “
Note: We, the Matrimandir Team, made another attempt to state our position, and
published in the AV News the following statement, which we printed directly below
a fac-simile of the message the Mother had given to the Matrimandir Workers on
31-10-1972 (the original of this message had been “lost”, more likely stolen or
destroyed, in the 80s).