journal d'une transition

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Therefore we are left with a nonsensical choice: either we continue with the pretence of calling it Auroville and we adjust and adapt, inwardly dying; or we go “underground”, like stunned fools, seeking initiates and the select few. Either way, the gift of possibility that Auroville is, stands betrayed.

So, we must take stock.

Our law of development is that it must be integral: that its forms must correspond to its consciousness. This means that any development must either be the expression of a new awareness, of a new comprehension that has emerged, or been gained through actual experience, or be an experiment which is backed by actual commitment and deemed worthwhile. Yet it would appear that quite a range of other motivations are already determining a number of outward developments in Auroville. What do we do about it? How do we resolve our view on the real priorities? The Ideal has been fragmented. Perhaps it is because it was not initially secured by an active inner realisation, but was merely apprehended by the outer being and subjected to its exclusivism and limitations. But this fragmentation should not now become an excuse for not trying any more. On the contrary, we should see it, as a result and not as a guide, and we should seek to shift the entire process of our choices. Through the years of Auroville we have progressed and we have learnt lessons and developed a unique experience. We have also yielded to falsities. Can we assess the ones and the others? Physically Auroville is increasingly surrounded by the constant and multitudinous pressure of the very type of development which, as willing servitors, we cannot condone. We cannot block off the world. But we can, and we must, affirm our true priorities. For too long now we have been sending out the wrong messages, thus inviting through weak affinity into Auroville motives and interests which, by their gradual establishment, are bound to alienate us more and more from the very purpose of our coming to Auroville in the first place. Yet it is our responsibility alone to first develop in ourselves the attitude that will attract the right energies for Auroville, with the right motivations and in the right manner. This is our dharma. Any representation of Auroville in the world should be charged with that quality of need and awareness.