On Auroville 2022 to 2025

For it is very necessary that we ask ourselves in full clarity: what is the message which is actually expressed and transmitted to the public by the present Matrimandir? Millions of people have already come to it as visitors or tourists: what have they kept of it in their consciousness, what is their understanding or its role, its utility, its function – and of the experience the Aurovilians may have of it? Does the present image of the Matrimandir convey the terrestrial sense of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo‟s Yoga, of the attempt at a chan ge of consciousness that Auroville represents? Mother had wanted the construction of the Matrimandir at the very centre so as to establish there a site of silent concentration dedicated to the Consciousness-Force, a haven of calm surrounded by the living beauty of Nature, at the very heart of the multiplicity of Auroville: does the organization that has developed around the Matrimandir over the decades manifest the living and conscious relationship of those individuals constituting the community of Auroville with the source of their inspiration, the force of their evolving towards the new species? Auroville must find a more fecund and conscious rapport with the world at large – and the role of the Matrimandir needs to be clarified. Its building, which has ta ken many years, and the elaboration of its “gardens” and its “lake”, just as its constant and daily maintenance and upkeep, have always been and continue to be funded by donations exclusively and required and continue to require the physical input of hundreds of hired workers. These two issues, or fields of questioning, bring us back to the initial aspiration: to learn to live together beyond all the divisions, chasms of differences and identifications which render the human societies unable to constantly evolve and compel the individuals who begin to awaken to free themselves first of their weight. Why indeed, after more than fifty years, have we not yet found the way for each and all of us to participate in actual solidarity to whatever is to be done, to each and every “work” – by which we would gain an entirely new perspective on all activity and all development?

Happy search!!!

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