Two more texts on and for Auroville

Yet we have been told, very clearly and repeatedly, that it is not a matter of giving each tendency the same “right” to express itself, but one of reaching for a consciousness that includes and integrates both in an as yet undiscovered living harmony. It is not just for our own destiny, the destiny of Auroville, that we must find the way forward: it is for humanity as a whole. Everywhere one looks, presently, one sees the dire effects of this dichotomy rapidly multiplying, with consequences that may become irreversible down to the very constitution of earth-matter. Let us look at the exemplary contradiction we have been living with, in Auroville, for more than fifty years: We have a plan of a city ready to descend and to imprint itself in the physical reality so as to hasten the manifestation of the vision of the future it represents. And we have an experience of collective awareness that seeks to grow and develop organically according to the necessities of life as it is permeated by the new consciousness, without any enforcement or predetermined criterion and in harmony with a prosperous natural environment. Both approaches can be found and encouraged in the Mother‟s words. There has been through the years a range of attempts to communicate and collaborate – and at times to neutralize one or the other approach or to put into practice a sort of hybrid expression of both. In more general terms, the contradiction lies between a vision that seeks to guide and direct the evolution of a particular situation so as to manifest an example of the conscious collective harmony that must reign upon earth, on the one hand, and on the other hand a sense of growth and progress that seeks to integrate and respect all aspects of life and natural integrity towards the realization of a plenitude and harmony yet unknown to humankind. *

Both may well be necessary.

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