Itinerary

An easy answer to this quandary does not seem to be available, as one may confirm today, as regards the governance of Auroville and the so- called “Master Plan”.

There are moments when the way of Auroville becomes tangible, vibrant and as if invincible – perhaps when we forget our oppositions, differences, exclusivisms? Intellectually, it is relatively easy to conceive of the effort required from the individual and the collective: the former must offer one‟s limitat ions and egoistic preferences and learn to perceive each of the other viewpoints presented, while the latter must ensure that none of these viewpoints is ignored or rejected, so that all the participants without exception may wholly heartedly adhere to the chosen orientation. This is not done through any blind and passive surrender or any resignation, but through a real integration, by which both, the individual and the collective, grow in awareness and capacity of manifestation. Such is our apprenticeship, and the Force of Auroville, its real force of creative contagion, is still waiting for us to complete it, so Auroville may radiate.

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More years went by, this here is but a selective foray to illustrate a quest – a quest for integrality and integrity at once, which I am attempting to share; the way of Auroville is complex, probably unpredictable, now threatened, now obstructed and now

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