The discernment and the guide

Thus far, as a collective, we have not done too well on that score, in the sense that we have not got the engine running and generating the wanted dynamics of conscious progress. Perhaps Her warning was, as time went, deemed irrelevant or simplistic, or too obvious to be heeded with the care and self-giving actually required.

As a result, there obtains a sort of stagnation that tends to reproduce endlessly the same patterns of collective conundrums.

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But Auroville was planted by Her as a generic seed and its growth and spread are not limited to its initial location.

The creative force of the service of truth is terrestrial.

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52 years onward, Auroville has not succumbed.

Assailed and compromised from without and from within through uncounted crisis, its spirit does grow, unpredictably so, despite appearances and condemns, treasons and abandonments and mistakes: its flame burns on, and so does the gratitude in the hearts of all those who care.

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She had once defined Auroville as “the city at the service of Truth”.

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