On Auroville 2022 to 2025

More and more men and women far away, as if by some internal invisible magnet, would be attracted by Her Force and, often bewildered and unprepared, would cross a threshold they did not know existed and find themselves responding to Her immensity and committing themselves to serve Her, ever and ever, come what may. But in Her close entourage, very few were those who were silent and receptive enough so She could still try and explain or describe or evoke Her growing experience of the new being, of the being yet to manifest, and of its consciousness. Most, however unwittingly, would meet Her with their habitual, unchanged humanness and throw on Her the ordinary formations of age and decrepitude and inevitable demise – of death. And She could not find anyone whom She could entrust with the task of organizing and orienting the outer work, such as the adventure of Auroville. She, the Shakti above all, has access to the full knowledge of all processes; yet here, in a tiny precarious human body, She must still discover, uncover, identify those secret keys that have been set in living matter till the day comes when there is no longer any need for the intervention of death. She, the Shakti above, is the source of innumerable formations and representations of Her aspects and powers; and She, the Mother, can issue permanent emanations of Her conscious Presence as and when necessary and this She has done repeatedly for each of those She accepted in Her work of transformation. But collectively too, She has issued such emanations that would ensure a degree of protection and guidance – and this She has done for Auroville as well. As Her Yoga progressed, She saw the need of withdrawing from the personal and of weaning Her children, teaching them silently to become aware of Her Force and Presence directly. In 1969, She found that the new consciousness had somehow taken root in the earth-atmosphere and started to play an active part in the general work and also to watch, almost as a coach, over those individual sadhaks and seekers who were receptive. She began to delegate. On the day of the birth of Auroville, She had written and read out its Charter: The Auroville Charter 1. Auroville belongs to nobody in particular. Auroville belongs to humanity as a whole. But, to live in Auroville, one must be a willing servitor of the Divine Consciousness. 2. Auroville will be the place of an unending education, of constant progress, and a youth that never ages.

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