Itinerary

Introduction

This is the summer of 2022 and Auroville is occupied by a battle of perspectives, a conflict as absurd as it is harmful and as harmful as it is absurd, as if all the participants had been deported and alienated from the one single priority, that of the progress of our consciousness, which all difficulties and seeming contradictions can serve and hasten if only we remain centred and aligned in our aspiration to grow in truth.

But what are the stated reasons for such a chasm to open between us all?

What is their foundation and is there one?

I would so much like to show, for instance, the inanity of this obsessive insistence on the material realisation of an urbanisation plan which, however attractive it may still appear, is NOT issued from the supreme source of the Auroville adventure and can NOT be attributed in any direct way to the Mother‟s will or vision, nor, consequently, be charged with Her whole authority...

But how to do that without raising such a din and opprobrium that the very meaning of the message will be neutralized?

Let us try, however, in order to approach the matter, to stick to the plain facts: not a single document signed by Her, not a single recording of Her words anywhere indicates Her will to see materialized this particular plan which is now being promoted with loads of massive arguments and a panoply of legal terms.

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