Towards Auroville

Of course, there have been many waves of assault, and much pollution and damaging infiltration have taken their tolls, which were not and are not within our field of progress, or, rather, have not risen from our domain of experience: the formidable and monstrous growth of consumerism all over the world is but one of the sources of erosion, waste and loss of ethical standards all around; and whatever we as a community were able to achieve as an example of integral progress and a more balanced way of life is rapidly being besieged and contaminated by the mounting tide of greed and callous, careless “development”. But have we not lacked practical wisdom and clear-sightedness, have we not favored our own comfort over the need to contribute actively to the future of our neighbors, for instance? She, the Mother, would never give orders, unless She was certain of the capacity, ability and receptivity required to follow them. Whenever the occasion was given Her, She would say how She wished this or that to be, to happen, to proceed, but She would not insist when the response was not forthcoming or when She saw other formations were being driven; She would simply then give Her blessings – with the caveat that Her blessings were always and invariably for the realization of the truest possibility, whatever that would be, and however long it might take.

So often we tend to behave like orphaned blinkered brats: we have Their immense knowledge at our disposal, we have access to Their conscious Force, we enjoy Their care and the absolute clarity of Their vision and yet we pick from the shelves Their cut-

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