journal d'une transition

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But it is not right, and therefore ought not to be normal, in Auroville. Not on moral grounds, but simply because it can never be the expression of the spirit of Auroville. When one has given oneself to Auroville, whatever material one needs no longer or is no longer able to use properly must be automatically released to those who may need it and may use it well. All one is capable of producing, acquiring, attracting, procuring and creating belongs naturally to Auroville.

To then expect a return of one’s investments, on the same level and according to one’s limited terms, is definitely not an expression of the spirit of Auroville.

9- We do have real problems.

One of the real evolutionary problems we face in Auroville is that we have not yet realised the level of consciousness required to ascertain without any judgement the true needs of every person. We are still prone to the confusion between an arbitrary equality and the perception of the infinite diversity of experience within the divinity of all souls.

10- What to do?

The first thing we need, provided we are able to confirm our commitment, is to become capable of identifying with any other person’s genuine point of view and conviction. The only true communication lies therein. I feel that your second proposal could help towards that realisation; for, the distance between all present in Auroville, this distance in which innumerable misunderstandings are thriving, is basically due to the absence of a conscious recognition and integration of the others’ experience in action.” Note: During that year and the year that followed, I was a member of the newly formed “Representatives Group”, representing in its forum the experience and perspective of our team and our work at Matrimandir. I felt all along that this was an excellent route if more of us would give it their heart and effort and discipline. However it was discredited and petered out in the wake of Kireet Joshi’s glorious return to Auroville in the guise of the new Chairman of the Auroville Foundation Governing Board.

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Note: Early on, C had taken subscriptions in my name to two leading French newspapers, “Le Nouvel Observateur”, a weekly, and “Le Monde Diplomatique”, a monthly; these are two out of the many French newspapers that, to my knowledge, have so far remained loyal to a certain ethics and orientation, and their regular reading has provided me, and some others here in Auroville, with a fairly accurate and comprehensive sense of the currents, trends and events seen from the French and European point of view. In June of that year, 1998, “Le Monde Diplomatique”