On Auroville 2022 to 2025

Over 50 nationalities are represented presently, with about half the extant population being Indian born and more than half of that hailing from neighboring villages. Every year that has passed has brought its batch of entrants, with their respective traits, understanding and baggage. As no hierarchy could be set, no central authority identified and no conclusive way of governance could be found – as yet -, the entire collective must therefore constantly adapt and reconfigure itself and try to integrate the imports – world views, habits, learned techniques, expectations – carried in by each of these newcomers, while trying to maintain, sustain and develop a dynamic of progress towards a truer life upon earth. Today, in the name of development, the threat looms vividly of it all being leveled down. Each of us wonders, how have we come to this, how have we become so weak and confused? No one ever said it would all be sunlit and easy: She warned, the way may be arduous at times, it may take many years, but Auroville will be…! Yet there is this doubt: have we, by dint of our own failings and insufficiencies, moved out of the Protection? For it is not just a matter of this band of privileged human specimen, each with their complex personality and burdens, attempting to become receptive to a new consciousness and a new order of manifestation: it is a matter of some proportion, however infinitesimal, of this living humanity, willingly turning to the true future of the earth, with aspiration and genuine self-giving, so that it can be changed and made sufficiently responsive for the new being to begin incarnating. We are not here for our own self-realization but as servitors, willing to offer all of their human condition and substance to the Force and the Light and the Consciousness that are working everywhere to open the way, in Matter, to a Have we, then, neglected it, obscured it? Have we, absorbed by the constant flow of day to day preoccupations and concerns, incidents and instant challenges, let it be veiled and become dormant? Any collectivity will be traversed, energized and occupied by tensions: tensions between apparent opposites, apparently irreconcilable viewpoints, competing urges and drives and mismatched interpretations of common objectives; She and He have shown us where are the tools of consciousness to build a growing harmony – and these tools are within us. Thus we have little excuse for being so tardy and even less for indulging in divisive posturing. lasting, ever progressive harmonious equilibrium. This is our “dharma”, the law of our existence .

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