journal d'une transition

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These are the forces that misguide those who deny the beauty of life and the truth of unity and would rather become terrorists than to accept their own evolving humanity.

These are the forces that feed exclusivism and self-serving hatred.

These are the forces that would reduce human beings to mere numbers under the false rule of greedy gods or treacherous ideals or for the sake of a destructive material prosperity that is empty and devoid of spirit. India has yet to claim its body as a living nation, and show the example of an entire people whose free members choose the law of the spirit and exist by the truth of the soul. Let India move forward secure in the clarity of its purpose, calling the Mother to unite all its children into Her embrace and lead them by Her Will and Her Grace for all of mankind and the love of one earth.

In gratitude to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.”

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Note: The issue of self-governance in Auroville had also, of course, the “permanent” status! All kinds of combinations and variations on known themes were broadcast every now and then; old and new models were looked at in relation to the Charter of Auroville, and not a few techniques tried in the West and intended to facilitate and promote cooperative awareness in large groupings were somehow finding their way into Auroville. In 1999, while the Representatives Group, of which I was a member, was still functioning, a few Aurovilians floated the “concept” of a “Town Council”, trying to answer the gaping paradoxes of Auroville’s organisation, or lack of it. I wrote the following text, undated (it must have been around the middle of that year):

*About the Town Council idea, to K and the Executive Council.

“This is just a contribution, not to be circulated, unless it would be found by you as sufficiently representative.

.The need.

1- From the Development Group’s perspective: a) An overview, decision-making body, with recognised authority, to instruct both the Planning and the Development Groups as to the priorities, and to sanction the main lines of specific projects.