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piercing eyes, did feel protected by Her, embraced by Her smiling presence at the return of the birds and the budding of the wild flowers of times past. A service for the distribution of the food had been set in motion: a small van covered the distances, bouncing and careening over the pitted uneven pathways to collect the fruits and grains and store them; then, assembling then with those staple goods one still had to purchase in the market of Pondicherry, to convey them to the various settlements – so many baskets per community. Indeed the first construction seemed to occur in the living fabric of a progressive collective organization – as much as in the buildings of the schools, the factories or the temple.

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Human intelligence is inapt to explain the action of the Grace that has protected and preserved this adventure and continues to sustain its progression towards a truer and more conscious future. From our point of view, one of the determining agents and factors of its survival and evolution is the diversifying of its activities, interests and perspectives, for that is the antidote to all sort of exclusivism. On the condition, of course, that each one should maintain one’s inner alignment and centering and remain conscious of the aspiration to a State of truth: for, without this individual discipline, the mixture and dilution of the collective commitment may then considerably slow or hamper its progress, if not altogether sink it into a replica, however privileged or ameliorated, of ordinary existence. It is the actuality of this diversity of engagements, interests and researches, as well as the quality of their common effort towards perfection, which allow Her town to be present to the world as a site of fruitful interactions in all of

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