journal d'une transition

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is somewhat embarrassing that intelligent people can propound arguments such as these (as though they were spiritual kindergarteners) – or perhaps it is merely because they too want a piece of the cake. A cake which might just be made available if pieces of the Matrimandir are parcelled out as a reward to all those who contributed to the destruction of the present team! To a mind centred upon the Indian way of being, all such behaviour is so incomprehensible that it finds itself slow to react to the danger. But the danger must not be minimised. It is the turbid ghost of Europe’s past. The dark ominous shadow of all the crucifixions, burnings, hangings and drownings practiced upon thousands of witches and other so-called ‘dark blasphemers against the One Truth’. Europe’s long history of devouring its best: the supra social spiritual beings, the redeemers and liberators (Jesus, Socrates, Jeanne d’Arc) is a permanent blot upon human history. And always the tool and method used was the mock trial, the sham judicial process. And hundreds of independent minded beings were happily got rid of by this simple expedient. The legal veil, the Christian cloak, invariably disguised its proponents’ egoistic self-aggrandising impulses. Finally, a word about those who claim not to ‘take positions’ because they are supposedly ‘above’ things: in a situation of generalised strife such as has been created at Matrimandir, there are seldom really neutral positions. Little do people recognise but their every action or their inaction, based mostly upon their biases, preferences or mere indolence, contributes to the situation’ movement up towards the light or in the other direction. History can give a salutary lesson in this regard. The Nazi killing machine could not have flourished so smoothly if so many nameless civil servants had not kept the system in such well oiled working order: the cattle trains, the station masters, the hundred and one desk clerks who merely did their job. Or take the German judicial system which for love of the Vaterland signed orders of sterilisation and dispossession, and sent hundreds of innocents to concentration camps. Without the abetment of a mass, no large scale harm can be practiced, and yet the twentieth century can be dubbed the century of Genocide. It is not the men who wielded the knife, the gas tap or the pistol who alone made it possible – it was the hundred and one bystanders and quiet workers who stood aside and allowed this force to rampage freely over the earth! Therefore it is necessary to act and the only safe action is one that arises from a consciously discovered inner place that is constantly guided by Mother’s Force. In a time such as this there is no such thing as an innocent bystander! It is so depressing that such wide room is found in Auroville for this obsolete force’s action. . The Bystander’s dilemma.

Deepti”

Note: One of the weapons most used to bluntly disregard or invalidate our stand consisted of the most basic or primitive tactic: if Kusum spoke up, it was merely as a pawn, as she had been caught in our web; if Deepti spoke up, rather than having