Itinerary

their symbols, towards a living and concrete realization of the fundamental unity of all that is, we must now endlessly answer for the reasons and objectives of this golden globe so costly to maintain, set in its showy case of calibrated greenery like a luxury item displayed in a shop window, supposedly offered to the glory of the supramental sun meant to reign over us all. And the fifth deviation, probably inevitable as it both follows and secures the others, has risen in its vestment of evidence and conviction, legitimized by our increasing numbers and escalating difficulty to communicate all together in a constructive enough manner: this was our vaguely prudent and conditional adhesion to “democratic” processes, beginning with voting “rights and duties”. Naturally, all of the attendant practices and techniques have therefore reintroduced themselves, stealthily slipping into all of our relationships and have further diminished us all, in terms of our collective capacity for mutual trust, receptivity and intuition. And then there is the sixth deviation, which virtually invited itself early on, almost with the birth of Auroville, and consists of our unresolved and irresolute acceptance before the affirmation of a sacred plan, figuring as a doctrine above and beyond all questioning; it is thus not the most recent and one could sometimes place it in the first position; yet along the years it played a useful role inasmuch as it served as a constant reminder of the truly collective dimension of Auroville, as a proportional representation of mankind and, therefore, of our duty and obligation to reach a level of creation sufficiently eloquent and appreciable as a proof, model and testimony of another, new quality of terrestrial existence. „

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