journal d'une transition

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organisational body, by introducing a “new” voting system: each Aurovilian was to select two names; out of all the names selected, the 30 names which got the most votes would be nominated to form a first support group; these 30 people would then choose among themselves the 7 or 12 members of the new body, and the rest would remain available as members of the larger support-group. Now it was proposed to apply the same method for the election of a new management group at Matrimandir, with the amendment that the selection must be done from a list of those who have expressed interest and willingness to be part of such a group… Deepti plunged and posted a strong protest; here are some excerpts of her text:

*On the Working Committee’s most recent Matrimandir Management proposal, from Deepti, September 24, 2002:

“So at last it is out in the open – the canker at the root of Auroville’s distorted growth, the worm in the apple of the recent experiment in ‘new organisation’. How reasonable the WC’s proposal sounds (funny, it’s their 5 th or 6 th proposal about Matrimandir management since they came into being!). Auroville must have a majority vote, every single adult Aurovilian must participate: let us ‘take back our soul’! We are ready to do to our symbol soul what we will never dream of doing to more secular activities – can you imagine electing, by majority vote, a new management at CSR, at Auroville Press, at Maroma… let alone at the Central Fund or Auroville Fund, however egregious the present managers become… But Matrimandir… is only our soul, and it ‘belongs’ to everybody (what an oxymoron, or rather what an asuric distortion of the soul’s truth of Divine Oneness); and so let’s call upon every Tom, Dick and Harry’s ego, jealousy, envy or hatred to pronounce upon it. The good people, as well as the good within people, will be fully repelled by this exercise – so all is safe… and I guess the organisers are banking upon this fact to get things through… … This is text-book material: first arrange a petition program, then organise a series of meetings, get the mobs baying for the blood of those “terrible MM team members”; when the soil is churned, a morass of mud and mire, just in time the intelligent ones will step in with a perfectly reasonable proposal to “solve the impasse”… These techniques have been perfected round the world in political action… disinformation, poisoning the well… they even have names!

… Sri Aurobindo… has spoken of the sheer caddishness of human nature, and of the evil at its root…. “

Note: We, the Matrimandir Team, made another attempt to state our position, and published in the AV News the following statement, which we printed directly below a fac-simile of the message the Mother had given to the Matrimandir Workers on 31-10-1972 (the original of this message had been “lost”, more likely stolen or destroyed, in the 80s).