Itinerary

The sense

My sources are the written or recorded words of Mother and Sri Aurobindo exclusively.

Now I shall spell out, without explanation, a number of choices and orientations that Auroville as a collective has made over the five decades of its material existence, which have contributed to a degree of alienation from the true sense and purpose of Auroville. Yet I will not broach the matter of the influences that have weighed on these choices, for here is not the subject matter of concern. Hearing what all is being said – and affirmed - these days, one could well observe that everyone is at once right and mistaken. Everyone is right, each one is right, as no one can live in Auroville without grasping some ray, some aspect, some indication of the truth that is waiting to be manifested upon earth. And everyone is wrong, everyone cannot but be wrong, in the sense and measure of our having collectively deviated from the adventure that offered itself to us – that still offers itself to be lived.

It is not to just one deviation that I shall try to bear witness to, but to several consecutive ones. First I shall list them, without any particular order since they formed almost simultaneously or within the same period of time;

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