On Auroville 2022 to 2025

-2: 14-04-2022: “Your attention, please! Here is one of the very last messages of Mother‟s, written in Her own hand: « Auroville will become what it must be only if and when the people living there will stop lying . M.” Here Mother points to our worse enemy, the one who can hide within each of us. Its slow poison can act in many ways and under many forms. It has caused innumerable disharmonies, for it has over the years eroded and compromised the flow of mutual trust amongst us all, to the extent that we have succumbed to a proliferation of rules and regulations – which will never ever be able to replace this trust of pure gold, the trust within each of us, the implicit, tacit, unconditional trust that each one of us loves the truth and no matter what will always strive to serve it as best as one can. There are so many manners of lie, from the most ordinary and gross dissimulation to the practices of dissembling and misleading, of hoax and imitation and all the sophisticated techniques of false representation and perverse usage of images and signs. It is certain that each one of us is concerned, without exception for even if one has progressed on the path, one still catches oneself lying here or there in subtler ways, so long as an integral sincerity is not established, and thus the task is continual, a task for which we can be grateful, in the Mother‟s Light, Force and Lov e, so that Auroville may exist and serve the Truth. When we are not able to rely on one another in our commitment to this service, we are weak, exposed and deprived of the sense of unity; therefore, the cause of our difficulties lies within us, as does the remedy; but a renewed determination as well as a lucid and honest assessment of our condition – not a pleasant exercise – are asked of us: we cannot escape it, if we do truly want to move ahead. (This is my observation. It is not a judgment, but a way to share my prayer.)”

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