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*27-9-1988, Auroville:
Now i am alone again in the house, and I can take meals by myself; today at noon
N came to me, seeing that it was possible again, and we spent a moment together,
and he was sweet and close and attentive and quiet, and it came as a gift… He has
invited S and I to come to his house tomorrow for Nitya’s birthday…
*28-9-1988, Auroville:
The Central Government’s man, Mahajan, is here at present; it seems he is a good,
open and tranquil fellow. No one really knows much…
… The weather is lovely, calm and luminous, and the land is so green and budding
everywhere…
*29-9-1988, Auroville:
B is full of questions regarding this Act of Parliament and the creation of the
Auroville Foundation, and the contradictions that arise from it. For instance, the
“members” of Auroville will be all those persons who, on the first official day of the
Auroville Foundation’s existence, will be listed on the Master-Lists maintained by
the Administrators, and that will include automatically many of the SAS people, as
well as the “neutrals”: a thorough levelling…!
Right after B told me all this, I developed what is called a “splitting headache”, and
I spent the rest of the day trying this movement and that, till it began to fade;
behind it there is a sort of ill-temper before the majority of my contacts with
people, and a resentment towards “Aurovilians” in general for creating this basically
mediocre, dishonest, superficial reality…
*30-9-1988, Auroville:
There are complications with N. I refused to give money for the lawyer to pay off
the witnesses who had been made to testify against him, and he resents it and is
now in that mood when he does stupid, desperate things…
… Krishna had breakfast with S and I today and he told me more about Agnes’s
condition: she seems to be quite lost and in a rather nasty spot, but his own
blindness is all the more striking…
*1-10-1988, Auroville:
I went on pruning in the garden right until dark. And then Jaïmurthy came. I have
found work for him for some days, until I know for sure whether we can build the
tank on the upper roof of “Ravena”, money-wise. If not, I’ll try then to find him a
good job in Auroville, and I plan to take him to dinner in town and to give him a
bonus, for this wonderful work he has done over the past few years, at “Ravena”,
with me…
*3-10-1988, Auroville:
I attended the general meeting at Bharat Nivas, devoted to the legislations that
have come into effect with the Act of the Parliament. The Master List of all Auroville
residents now comprises all the names that were entered on the Register
maintained by the Administrator, including a number of SAS members and
“neutrals” – the old “enemies”… This could be one more opportunity for all of us to