On Auroville 2022 to 2025

The responsibility for the maintenance and harmony of the whole lies with everyone equally, at every moment. Money has value only in our relation with the world as it still is, so as to convert it into those goods and elements which the collectivity is not yet able to produce or generate. 12. Our privilege and our task. Aurovilians, inhabitants or residents of Auroville, we know a privilege that is unique upon earth and it is only insofar as we really are servitors of the divine consciousness, of the force of Truth, that we are worthy of this privilege and may practice a right relationship with the world at large. Whatever be our activity in the service of Auroville, it is through our self-giving and consecration that we can let flow and directly communicate something of the true consciousness and of the raison d‟être of Auroville, which “belongs to humanity as a whole”. Of this humanity, we are the representatives placed inside the cauldron and crucible at the service of a change of condition for all. What we learn on the ground, in our consciousnesses, and become capable of embodying, transmits itself without artefact or explanation. Let us aspire to ever more truth in all of our actions and movements: this aspiration is itself our message and our sharing.

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Necessary questioning of our practices

A major objection to the character of such a document and of such a research or quest is that it seems too distant from the practical “reality”, the reality that we experience daily, the “normal” re ality, the reality which is still, in fact, sovereign. Why then do we not approach those questions that rise every single day for most of us in Auroville?

Let us then look at two most glaring questions.

. The first one, the most nagging question, which preoccupies the most, is this: How to illumine, simplify, „ equalize ‟ the economic situation of every Aurovilian? How to guard from the tendency to re-form and re-create classes and castes?

. The second one demands a broadened and extended reflexion: it is the question of tourism in Auroville and, particularly, the considerable touristic attraction that the Matrimandir exerts, such as its gilded sphere and its decorative surroundings have been conceived and realized so far.

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