On Auroville 2022 to 2025

to preserve and encourage the thrust and commitment of each and everyone towards the future, a future that would address humanity as a whole, rather than be the reserved domain of an elite, however representative it may be. And in this perspective, Mother has given numerous indications on the functioning of the city to be, its mode of living, its approach to material goods and assets, or on the spirit of harmonious and diverse simplicity that ought to reign. On the internal structure of the city too She gave, through Her own sketches et recorded descriptions, the guiding principles: at the center, the sanctuary of Truth – which She eventually named „Matrimandir‟, with water around it and the Park of Unity around it all, all of it within a zone of silence; then the four large petals marking four main principles of activity – international;, industrial, cultural and residential; and, finally, at the external edge, ensconced between the rounded borders of the four petals, the service areas, relating to the „outside‟. In fact, She has given all the indications one could ever wish for on the contents and almost none on the forms, for it is the life of progressive consciousness that would discover the corresponding forms – and not the other way around. As for those rare occasions when She Herself drew precise forms, these have been consigned to the Archives: for instance, Her detailed sketch of the Urn which would contain a handful of soil from every country, just as Her outline of the access to Matrimandir or that of its entire area. It is only for the description of the inner chamber of Matrimandir that She insisted on the exact dimensions and the presence of all of its elements. Many a time, She remarked that details did not interest Her, in the sense that these would be elaborated as we move along without any predetermined fixity, unless She had SEEN what must be realized – as for the inner room of Matrimandir, as we all know, but also as for the park at the centre of the city, the „most beautiful park in the world…‟ Often in our debates we refer to „the Mother‟s will‟, but this is a human notion, formed by the human ego, and it is not thus that one may open to Her way. For that, one must first become conscious of Her presence, learn to recognize Her atmosphere and live by Her grace; there is no ego in Her. There is a conscious Force of Truth and Harmony that moves ahead, pushes and works ceaselessly, through everything. So, what follows, what I shall express in the coming pages, which one will read or reject, may shock, disorient, upset, or lead to more pondering, finding echoes and resonances . But I do promise that each word will have matured and risen from experience – mine, ours, that of Auroville as a collectivity, that of all for whom Mother and Sri Aurobindo are the bearers of Truth upon earth.

The sense:

My sources are exclusively the written or recorded words of Mother and Sri Aurobindo, exclusively. Now I shall enunciate without explanation a number of choices or orientations which the collectivity of Auroville has made or taken during the five decades of its material existence, which have contributed to its alienation (partial) from the true

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