with Sri Ganesh

- 11-02-13:

... A huge board has been mounted right in front of the compound wall, half-hiding the Auroville Symbol – a political board in honor of Jayalalitha and some local small fry... As I go nearer to see how to loosen the bindings, two youths ride over at once, who must have been on watch, and right away begin to shout that I have no right to touch this and I must “go back to my country”, or else they will beat me and cut my limbs (it is often the practice in the area...!); I shout back at them that they are just “goondas” and whatever education they got is wasted , as they can understand nothing but the goonda rule... This altercation expresses the disease that is now rampant in the country, which is hostage to the grossest violence and its corrupting effect on society... Yet this alone cannot explain the grotesque situation this nation is in, riddled with lies, its environment being degraded moment by moment... I examine the options: to let it all be, to fight back, to close the public tap till a measure of respect for this place is affirmed... After a moment I find that the main breaker has again tripped... Over the past years I have come to feel more and more the need for a large occult action to bring about collaboration from all subtle forces to help provide the conditions necessary for the transformation and the new creation... I may be utterly wrong and merely unaware of the workings of the Force in the world... But to me there is no contradiction, only the need for this commitment and complementarity – with the sense that, without it, this world is condemned...

But, Sri Ganesh, you remain Warmly radiant, A glowing treasure, The dwelling of Certainty And Invincible love...

Aum

... Rs. 10/- have been offered... In the afternoon, Parthy and AV Selvam, trying to find the fault in the system, discover that the wiring in the shrine has melted; they hang an overhead cable across the garden and cut the old connection, which must be well over 30 years old, leaving it to me to decide what to do next...

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