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Fouiller ce mystère,
Comme des fruits enfin mûris
Cèdent à la force secrète qui les transforme
Et s’ouvre
Le chemin
Du monde »
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*A text written in 1982: Notes for consideration:
“This present period of time might also be a last opportunity to try and commit
ourselves to the true destiny of Auroville, to the Adventure it stands for.
What are we?
Who is this ‘us’ here, in the geographical and physical plane called Auroville?
We are human beings who, supposedly, have felt the need to change to such a
degree that we were led to search for a place and conditions that would best allow
this change, integral, to take place.
Auroville is such a place and by its very nature was created to offer those
conditions. It was created as the best possible instrument to help the change; and
one of the conditions it must offer is an as complete freedom as is possible at the
moment. Freedom of choice, of attempts, of adventure, freedom to explore what
true responsibility means, freedom to discover what forms a truer life on earth
would eventually take, or create, as one tries to practice the truths, laws and
dynamics inherent to the inner being and reality.
Everywhere on earth today there are people, individuals and groups, who would be
comforted and feel supported by the knowledge that there is a place where it is
being actually proved that a better and truer life can be manifested in freedom;
that the fight for freedom is justified, provided that one is ready and willing to use
it for that manifestation, ready and willing to choose consciously to contribute the
effort, the search and the discipline indispensable.
It is not an image that these people would need, nor the brushing of an ideal;
rather it is the knowing, direct and non-mental, that all the challenges and
contradictions that are inescapably part of the process are being met and faced,
and that a little bit of the one substance all humanity shares is somewhere, now,
consciously and enduringly trying and trying and trying, and that, perhaps, there IS
something like Help and Grace when one tries.
And it is a fact that, short of that, Auroville is misused and betrayed.
Now, this is not a moral issue, although there are ethics involved.
It is, as we well know here, an evolutionary issue, a human issue.
But we know too much, with our minds only, and know too little, with our living
experience – we here who have been fed, and are being fed by the richest and
strongest food of conscious spiritual Truth that man could ever dream of.