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is somewhat embarrassing that intelligent people can propound arguments such as
these (as though they were spiritual kindergarteners) – or perhaps it is merely
because they too want a piece of the cake. A cake which might just be made
available if pieces of the Matrimandir are parcelled out as a reward to all those who
contributed to the destruction of the present team!
To a mind centred upon the Indian way of being, all such behaviour is so
incomprehensible that it finds itself slow to react to the danger. But the danger
must not be minimised. It is the turbid ghost of Europe’s past. The dark ominous
shadow of all the crucifixions, burnings, hangings and drownings practiced upon
thousands of witches and other so-called ‘dark blasphemers against the One Truth’.
Europe’s long history of devouring its best: the supra social spiritual beings, the
redeemers and liberators (Jesus, Socrates, Jeanne d’Arc) is a permanent blot upon
human history. And always the tool and method used was the mock trial, the sham
judicial process. And hundreds of independent minded beings were happily got rid
of by this simple expedient. The legal veil, the Christian cloak, invariably disguised
its proponents’ egoistic self-aggrandising impulses.
It is so depressing that such wide room is found in Auroville for this obsolete force’s
action.
. The Bystander’s dilemma.
Finally, a word about those who claim not to ‘take positions’ because they are
supposedly ‘above’ things: in a situation of generalised strife such as has been
created at Matrimandir, there are seldom really neutral positions. Little do people
recognise but their every action or their inaction, based mostly upon their biases,
preferences or mere indolence, contributes to the situation’ movement up towards
the light or in the other direction.
History can give a salutary lesson in this regard. The Nazi killing machine could not
have flourished so smoothly if so many nameless civil servants had not kept the
system in such well oiled working order: the cattle trains, the station masters, the
hundred and one desk clerks who merely did their job. Or take the German judicial
system which for love of the Vaterland signed orders of sterilisation and
dispossession, and sent hundreds of innocents to concentration camps. Without the
abetment of a mass, no large scale harm can be practiced, and yet the twentieth
century can be dubbed the century of Genocide. It is not the men who wielded the
knife, the gas tap or the pistol who alone made it possible – it was the hundred and
one bystanders and quiet workers who stood aside and allowed this force to
rampage freely over the earth!
Therefore it is necessary to act and the only safe action is one that arises from a
consciously discovered inner place that is constantly guided by Mother’s Force. In a
time such as this there is no such thing as an innocent bystander!
Deepti”
Note: One of the weapons most used to bluntly disregard or invalidate our stand
consisted of the most basic or primitive tactic: if Kusum spoke up, it was merely as
a pawn, as she had been caught in our web; if Deepti spoke up, rather than having