journal d'une transition

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May I, in the end, assure everyone of our earnest wish to serve the highest welfare of Auroville.

With regards,

Yours sincerely,

Kireet Joshi”

Note: Once again, the Chairman designated us for the collective, and active opprobrium; this time, however, he was very nearly asking the community to silence us one way or another, or else…! The other members of the Governing Board who were not representatives of the Central Government’s direct hierarchy were: Smt Mirra Srivastav, who later offered her resignation, and passed away in 2004; The Maharajah of Puri, who later refused to be re-appointed; Sri Subhash Kashyap, who later asked to be allowed to resign; Sri Chattopadhya, a reputed philosopher, who always insisted that no other way than dialogue and more dialogue was to be contemplated; Sri L.M. Singhvi, a very eminent jurist of the highest class, an elderly and conservative man extremely sharp and cutting, who perhaps was the main support for the Chairman in this series of episodes; and Roger A. I soon wrote another Open Letter to all:

*On Kings and Caveats for the Matrimandir and Auroville, by Divakar, August 2003:

“What a wonderful construction! All preparations are underway, at all levels of the scaffold the right people rush in the right elements, vox populi included. It is well crafted, a great rallying of energies to make everything ready: the king must be properly installed, there must be no hiccups, and no sorry show of opposition; even the least perplexity must not be allowed. Everything is legitimised, justified, everyone must answer to the call of duty, lest disaster strikes!

The only problem is: the king is naked! There is a void at the centre. And the same absence is to be found in every argument.

(I). What are the instructions the Mother is said to have given the architect alone, instructions which are purported to express her Will for such a complete change of concept and Her agreement to the architect’s proposals? Were they not recorded then? Why? The architect’s proposals and designs are known. They cannot ever be considered as a reflection or an expression of the Mother’s recorded descriptions of Her visions. So it is said that the Mother has ‘changed’ after January 1970, and changed so much that She would have found the architect’s designs to be of an inspiration superior to Her own. Why was such a momentous change not recorded?