On Auroville 2022 to 2025

-1: 02-03-2022: “One missing piece … (With reference, amongst many other pronouncements, to a talk Alok Pandey was requested to give recently on the present issues of planning and governance) Here is a person for whom many of us have great respect and whom we greatly trust, who was asked to give his views on our present predicament; in principle all he said is most sensible and yet he, just as many others, just as most of us, keep ignoring or f orgetting that when, for instance, he speaks of Mother‟s own formation for the “city at the service of Truth”, it is not to the present model of a master plan that one should refer to but to the first model She had approved, that of a nebulae. This was end of 1965, beginning of 1966 and, in this same period of time and stage of Her Yoga, She tries several times to explain Her experience of the supramental Force as to be so rapid, intense and radiant that it was imperceptible; the first model of the nebulae, besides integrating Her own symbol of the Divine Mother acting in the manifestation, seems to reflect this immobile radiance in all directions equally. Perhaps this was felt to be, by the team of architects involved under Roger‟s direction, too static, lacking dynamism and life and therefore various attempts were subsequently made to “animate” it. Here and now this open letter is meant to help us reflect more deeply. Our arguments are bound by dualities and polarities, and in yielding to these oppositions, we lose ourselves and become weaker as a collective. To simplify this contribution, we need to remember inwardly and consciously that the Force of Truth, the Force of the Future of our species, is not moving either one way or another, one direction or another, it is acting in all ways at once from a perfect Oneness. Here below is an extract of the Mother‟s Agenda relevant to the nebulae, followed by corresponding drawings and a sketch of Her own “formation”. (And it would be so very much easier if more of us would take the trouble to immerse themselves in the reading of Mother‟s Agenda and Sri Aurobindo‟s works, for so much of our “positions” would become ridiculous and prehistoric to our own eyes and we could at least smile at our gimmicks!!!)

1966, April 23rd: Excerpt from a conversation with Satprem, which starts by Mother handing Satprem a brochure on Auroville: MA, p. 91-92; Gaz, Vol. 8 No 1, pp. 9 & 11; AVMW, p. 62-63.

French. Conversation. No tape-recording available. The photos are very pretty. One is quite like a nebula.

It seems to be going very well. A very widespread collective response, and from the two opposite sides: the whole Communist side is moving, and the whole financial, American side is moving. There is an effervescence. It‟s sure to work, I KNOW it exists – the city is already there (it has been for many, many years). Interestingly, my creation was with Sri Aurobindo in the centre, then

3