Towards Auroville

try and help mankind to unfetter itself from the yoke of attachment and physicality and find peace - such aims were no longer sufficient or even relevant, as the entire world was plunging into such upheavals and mutations as had never ever before been experienced. There is, They came to say, an intent and a purpose behind evolution and man, the human being as it is, cannot be its last stage. Man is great, man is vil e: humanity’s contradictions cannot be the ultimate realization of Nature’s forces - the Oneness that sustains all that is has not manifested yet. And so They explained and showed and demonstrated the real nature of evolution: each of its stages is led by a principle of consciousness, first came the Life principle, then came the Mind principle, and each had to develop to its utmost through the living species and specifically through mankind, with the help and agency of gradual individualization. And there is another, inner process, that of the birth, growth and development of the innermost being, which is pure consciousness – existence, love and knowledge -; at first it is but a spark, then a tiny diamond in the dark, secret in the deepest recess of the heart; then it slowly, through lifetimes and innumerable associations, matures and develops into a conscious presence, able to choose and to guide and to serve. This presence wi thin, She and He have designated as the “psychic being”, the child of the One, who is to serve the labor of transition to the next stage and act as the pure agent of the new progressive incarnation. This is, so to say, the framework, as far as the “objective” reality is concerned.

And this is the first discovery, the central key without which one cannot begin to serve Auroville.

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