journal d'une transition

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We have to link. Services such as “Nandini”, “Pour Tous”, “Prosperity”, “Housing Group”, “Development Group”, Economy Group”, “Bridging Fund”, “Maintenance Fund”, Water, Electricity and Telephone Services, etc. must all redefine their present functions and reassess their motivations in the light of a common coordination towards the material expression of Auroville’s raison d’être. We are so wary of centralisation and the misuse of power that we keep breeding more groups and committees, which only aggravate the confusion and waste the energies. No diffusion can take place without a centre. This centre we must find, and discipline ourselves around it. There needs to be a central awareness in the form of a core group of coordination acting as a living channel at the service of Auroville’s truth and purpose. This core group must be presented with a transparent and comprehensive picture of all the resources available as well as of all the needs, and inform the various services accordingly. This is not going to realise itself, nor anything we truly wish, without dedication and hard work. It will not do to sit weekly or bi-weekly and talk. It will not do to open a service three afternoons a week. It will not do to multiply attempts that merely undermine each other. If we are loaded today with almost a hundred units and delude ourselves that these complications are the expression of diversity, we have only ourselves to blame, that is, the forces that in us resist the multiple manifestation of Truth’s simplicity!” “Greetings.This is to request you to release the amounts kept in the individual “in kind” accounts for all those who are listed as Matrimandir Workers, as and when they will ask for it in cash. We had wished earlier this year to support practical steps towards the shift to an economy more open to the inner dynamics of Auroville. We had hoped that the various services would be sufficiently motivated to take up the task and begin to create channels for the provision of individual needs “in kind”; that a coordination would be activated between these services and the Financial service so that, even when goods are not produced in Auroville as yet, they could be acquired; that this effort at collective organisation would trigger a development more faithful to Auroville’s essential thrust. However, this progress seems to be hampered in many ways and more time seems to be needed. Meanwhile the present situation is confusing and causes practical problems for many of the persons concerned. We would like to collaborate with the different services so as to establish a clearer basis for this practical orientation. At the service of Truth, For Matrimandir” - Letter to the Financial Service: