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What is being tried presently is to impose a truth on everybody – no need for
everyone to arrive at the perception of it, it is done for them.
Here it is: serve it, serve the architect, serve the Master Plan, collaborate, nothing
else is asked of you, nothing else is wanted from you; you must simply contribute
your happy goodwill and be satisfied you are guided unerringly towards the goal!
But then what of the very purpose of Auroville?
Has it been ‘absorbed’?
This is an unworthy farce.
I think everyone ought to urgently regain some self-respect and do a thorough
check-up of one’s assumptions and turn full centre, with one’s very own question
and one’s very own little fire of need – and love.
Divakar”
Note: JYL also posted an Open Letter, on 7-8-2003:
*“Finally”, by Jean Yves, 7/8/03:
“Finally…
The takeover of Matrimandir by the Governing Board presents several interesting
features to be studied and reflected upon.
It transforms the Governing Board into a sort of court of appeal for final decision-
making in Auroville’s matters, a new organ in our collective body. There is a direct
psychological consequence for our experiment: why should anyone now make the
effort of going beyond one’s views and include the other’s in a higher synthesis (the
only path to human unity) if it is always possible to win by having the Governing
Board on one’s side?
It appears that here the Governing Board’s intervention becomes dysfunctional in
relation to the law of development of Auroville. Their action merely proves that
power games are necessary and sufficient to make ‘the truth’ win. At last we are
free from the effort of widening ourselves in an attempt to surrender our cherished
exclusive approaches for a most integral one. What a victory!
But even a court of appeal must base its decision on some law. Here the
commentators of Mother’s words come in. They obligingly make ‘enlightened’
selections of Her words and transform Her exploration into the Unknown into an
explicit and limited orthodox ‘truth’ to be enforced, a ‘Reader’s Digest’ form of Her
too vast and too demanding experience. On this dubious basis, the Governing
Board assumes a new function: it becomes the place where the legitimate truth of
Auroville is enunciated – the Mount Sinai of our collectivity in the making, as it
were…
From this basis also comes the call to show our goodwill by following the official line
with enthusiasm and gratitude; which makes implicitly (for the moment) of those
who are reluctant to it people of bad will. What are we going to do with these ones?