Which town?

And as thus He worked, ever unperturbed in His orientation, these movements of consciousness translated in Her, simultaneously and directly, in experience and action.

She was incarnating in the world.

Accessible, diligent, alert to each and all, She organized, guided, encouraged, protected, indicated, enveloped, supported, pulled forward and taught. Already She had, with the first disciples, established the practical foundations of a collective organization capable of harmonious growth. She opened all fields to the same exigency, the same aspiration, the same dedication. Every activity, once offered to the Truth, was equally noble and worthy of the same respect and consecration. She inculcated that the poet and the legislator could as well sweep the courtyard with the same vibrancy and the same inwardness. She taught them that all of life is the ground of the Yoga and the lever of transformation.

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At the beginning, in the old colonial quarters of Pondicherry, this slumbering town often ill-famed and treacherous that yet preserved a sort of ordered grandeur with its well-traced streets parallel or perpendicular to the ocean and bordered with thick-walled and high-ceilinged spacious mansions, They owned nothing, or almost nothing and had to rely on the hospitality of a few devoted local residents – and most of the first new arrivals had nothing either.

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