Itinerary

In the meantime, Roger had been appointed a member of the Auroville Foundation Governing Board by the Ministry as “ Chief Architect ” (a conflict of interest that was hardly commented upon), while Kireet Joshi, who had been the principal contributor to the draft and creation of the Act of Parliament which gave birth to the Auroville Foundation, had been appointed as its Chairman; Kireet was a fervent admirer of Roger and even declared, when this new conflict became more acute and critical, having received the inner command to “follow Roger” – to serve him. The stakes were high and deeply determining: the original urge and movement, sustained and nourished through the years, to participate in a collaborative creation – Nature, man and the divine joining in a single common endeavour to welcome, receive and serve the Force of harmony and truth of the future -, would it now be compromised and compelled to submit to a loud and glamorous demonstration of the talents and prowess of privileged man, an imperious declaration of his perfectionism, a glorious posting of his beliefs, in this great wounded and afflicted world?

Must one be resigned to a purely esthetical creation, a minutely flaming perfection reducing Nature to a controlled and measured decorative offering and man to a disciplined robot gifted with some superior mode of existence?

Truth does not announce itself with the roll of drums.

Thus is our collective experience askew; have we then already realized our aim? Is this the example we wish to give, of the indispensable humility before the One?

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