journal d'une transition

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pourrait remettre en question l’unité présentée, est activement ignorée, aliénée, ostracisée, enterrée.

I have not kept many documents with me; only a few, which seemed to me to be representative of the positions and viewpoints. We continued with our daily work at Matrimandir, and we kept holding the weekly gatherings, on site, of those Aurovilians working with us who wished to meet together. Each time we would select a chairperson amongst us, and someone else who would record the topics and the decisions reached, if any. Paolo’s study had by then progressed very well, and he was able to produce a very beautiful, comprehensive and detailed picture of the entire Peace area, which brought by itself a kind of fulfilment: it was proof enough for us that truly, not only this complementary was possible, between the architectural integrity of the Matrimandir and the richness and beauty of a natural environment, but was far superior to any exclusive solution. We all agreed to write to the Governing Board members about it, in September.

*On Paolo’s study, to the Members of the Governing Board of the Auroville Foundation:

“21-9-2002. Greetings.

This letter is being written to you by the members of the Matrimandir Workers Team, which is comprised of those Aurovilians working on the Matrimandir site who gather weekly, in open meetings, to see to the carrying on of the work at Matrimandir. This weekly gathering was established by the community following a series of intense meetings regarding Matrimandir in September and October, 2001. We bring to the attention of the Governing Board that the issue of direction and design for the entire Peace Area has not been addressed truly or fairly. The Matrimandir Team is convinced that the stated and recorded wishes of the Mother for this Peace Area call for real gardens with greenery, trees, shrubs, flowers and lakes, all arranged in the Japanese way, and not simply a reduced series of “symbolic” gardens – with no Park (or Outer Gardens) to speak of. The recent studies of Paolo Tommasi attempt very well, we believe, to capture and embody the deepest sense of what Mother has described of Her visions of the Gardens. In their last meeting, the members of the Governing Board had insisted on the need for dialogue between all concerned to find the way forward, but this has not happened, because the architect does not agree to participate in the needed dialogue. Instead of dialogue and collaboration, there is mounting pressure to enforce decisions instead of inducing consensus and harmony with patience until it is achieved. We want to work for union and a harmonious future together; at the service of this aspiration we always remain. At the service of Truth.”

Note: There was considerable confusion in Auroville as regards the type and style of self-government that was wanted. Kireet, having professed everything and its contrary, had once already intervened in the method of collectively forming an