journal d'une transition

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It is therefore in the field of action that we must become capable of identifying amongst us all those who are most open to intuitive powers in any given situation.

It thus seems to me that Gilles’s proposal could be integrated into your second proposal, of a truly representative group: representative of all the angles of experience and perspectives held in Auroville. For we do not want a parochial representativity; we want a representativity from the point of view of the actual experience of Auroville as it translates in any of the areas of its expression. In this way we might have the guiding elements of a more collectively conscious search into the future, into the unknown, into the adventure.

8- When basic contradictions have become accepted practices.

The laws of Auroville are very clear; but the way to their effectiveness, in us as well as around us, has to be found step by step.

For ages the world has been plagued by the division between the spiritual life and the physical life, until Sri Aurobindo and the Mother came to incarnate a Divine who claims the whole of the manifest world.

Auroville was created so that collective humanity could begin to learn this truth and experience it.

We are not to allow this old division to be resurrected in another form, between the “ideal” and “the facts of life”!

Our dharma is to serve the laws of Auroville come what may.

Perhaps we do not as yet have the strength to truly offer the contradictions so that they are either changed or dissolved. But we must not ever condone them. And for this as for every part of the discovery of Auroville we need one another’s complementary effort and flame and perception. Yet there are too many instances when we seem to attach more value to appearing mature and “realistic” than to nurture the call for a truer and fuller existence. One instance: the FAMC, which had so far been a rather fluid entity not having yet found its organic identity, yielding to the same normative compulsion, is now proposing (I suppose, as a sort of damage-control measure) to sanction the practice of renting, professing its ability to exert control over all such operations, for the welfare of the community.

But isn’t this, in terms of Auroville, a plain imposture? For whoever in Auroville is able to rent out must also naturally feel proprietorship!

For several years now the practice of selling assets has been quite open and increasingly regarded as “normal”. Yes, normal indeed it is, almost everywhere.