Which town?

One day, when the number of permanent residents of the ashram had well augmented, a princely disciple of a neighboring state offered to Her… a whole hill, with its surrounding lands.

She looked.

She had the plan of Her town.

The plan of this city of which He would be the centre.

For always She sought a freedom of action: the freedom to attempt and to experiment without the constraints and restrictions of the ordinary society, the freedom to try out and practice new forms and new principles of governance, of economy, of collective existence.

Her plan was simple.

There would be a circular compound wall, with one or several entrances where each arrival would deposit all that linked to the outer public domain. All along the internal face of the surround would be the lodgings of the disciples, each having a small home and its garden. Then, converging towards the center and thus towards the top of the hill, one would find the buildings of collective use for all the services and different activities.

And His central home would thus be at the summit.

Around the town would lay the farms and orchards.

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But this project could not take flight.

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