journal d'une transition

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as well as through the various significances of the flowers identified by the Mother Herself. In the descriptions that are on record, made by the Mother of Her visions, as well as in the references made by Her to the Golden Temple Grounds in Kyoto, the spirit of this environment and the balance between its main elements – detailed gardens nearest to the Pavilion, a water body around that and the tall trees around it – are very clearly outlined and evoked. . Roger A’s contribution to the building of Auroville’s Soul has been respected; it has materialised. The golden sphere and its twelve massive reddish petals have been built. They stand in their forceful majesty for all to see. That work is done. What of the intimacy, the nearness of the soul? Its atmosphere vibrant with fragrant mystery, discovery made conscious in the silent rhythms of its profound beauty? What of its approach, which allows one to perceive the infinite riches of conscious existence? What was an issue of direction with far and deep-reaching implications for the work of Auroville has become a political issue of control. Resources, capacities, commitments are acknowledged insofar as they may serve political ends, and the ‘Architect’, from the only meaningful ‘position’ of serving the Mother’s dream in life and matter, has now sought to be installed as the sole and ultimate authority over and above every other one of Her servitors, by political and legal means and not by means of a genuinely acknowledged moral and spiritual stature as a leader. With this legal backing, his supporters have staked their claims on the actual territory, biding their time until, convinced, the Government does remove the few individuals who still remain as obstacles to the execution of his own designs.

But again, where is the space and where is the will to discern the terms of the choice, to identify a direction that would bring all these trends together?

Should not the Governing Board, whose essential role is to guard the Charter and the Spirit of the adventure called Auroville, insist on the only path of resolution, the only way worthy of Auroville, that of collaboration and mutual respect, rather than lend itself to the politicisation and personalisation of the choices to be made?

Divakar”

Note: The above text was posted and circulated. I also wrote a short note to the “Core Group”:

*Note regarding the Matrimandir and its Sanctuary of Peace, to the Core Group formed by the Governing Board of the Auroville Foundation, May 2003: “There are those amongst us who have been for many years striving towards a complete realisation in Matter – that realisation evoked and invoked by the Mother in several recorded descriptions of Hers – and it was but natural that, as part of the