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An Offering

For a new beginning

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Une offrande

Pour un nouveau commencement

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2024-2025

Greetings.

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Here is a first document conceived for a

collaborative work of scrutiny and research so as to

reach, now itself, in 2024, a new threshold of

common commitment at the service of Auroville.

The document which will result of this shared

research can then serve as a basis for a unified

collective action.

Notes for a new beginning.

Introduction:

There has been a break, a fracture, a disruption in

our collective experience and in the temporal history

of Auroville: in 2021, the central Government of

India took over the control of all assets, lands and

services of Auroville and massively invested public

funds, through its Ministry of Education, so as to

hasten what it deems to be a priority in the outer

development of the “project”.

This orientation has been made possible by the

conviction a number of Aurovilians held of the

imperative necessity to win back all the time lost in

the meanders of a collective experiment too

nebulous and vitiated by egoism.

According to them, the general plan of the

city-to-be as prepared by the team of Roger Anger

in the 70s, constituted an indefectible program of

action decreed by the Mother and neglected,

ignored or contested for far too long. This particular

approach has provided a laudable argument for the

Government to actually engage in its own principal

objective of reclaiming this whole enterprise of

international repute as its own on the world-scene,

determining its actions on the ground through its

chosen representatives.

This intervention has had many consequences,

materially as well as psychologically.

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Everything has been questioned.

Our various comprehensions of the “Spirit of

Auroville” have certainly suffered.

However, if one refers oneself to the Mother, this

episode too must serve the progress of our

consciousness, for Auroville cannot fail, since its

conception and its birth, as its goal and action, do

not ultimately depend on our humanity alone, but

on the Consciousness-Force at work upon earth.

This document is offered as a tool of work and

reflection, so as to assist us in elaborating the terms

of a renewed commitment, individual and collective.

We have at our disposal to sustain this task more

than 50 years of experience and, if one may well be

proud of the quality of the realizations and

achievements, it is time for us to look at, with the

acquired discernment and with sobriety, all of the

weaknesses, betrayals, all the small failures and

imitations and poor approximations that have

weighed on and slowed our progress; for, had we

acted and developed according to the true

Consciousness alone, we would be stronger and

would not have been thus divided, impuissant and

exposed.

Therefore, this document is presented as a tool of

perception and collaborative search.

Whether in small groups or individually, one can

contribute to it, alter, complete, simplify and clarify

it and thus we shall eventually find in it a ground of

agreement and common action.

How to, all together, find again the sense of the

Auroville Way, now, today, in 2024?

How to re-learn together, learn anew to serve the

spirit of Auroville, so that it incarnates progressively

upon earth in a collective body?

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What can we, must we retain of the past experience

since the foundation of Auroville in 1968?

Here are some notes and propositions to be shared,

contemplated, developed so as to commit, each and

all, to a more conscious and more humble process

of evolution, offered to the task before us all, at the

service of Truth.

Resolutions:

1. Never to lie.

Never to lie to oneself but maintain a constant

vigilance, lucidity, honesty, sincerity, integrity in

every movement of our being (mental, emotional,

vital, physical, material).

Never to lie to anyone under any pretext: one may

abstain and keep silent, if one perceives a possible

danger resulting from saying what one knows to be

true, but in no circumstance must one ever allow

oneself to knowingly and voluntarily distort the

actual truth.

Truth is the only durable and solid foundation for

the evolution of Auroville.

Any lie, as inconsequent at it may appear, acts like

an invisible corrosion which eventually will corrupt

the entire collective edifice.

2. Creation of a Forum.

Approach every difficulty and every contradiction as

an occasion to develop a better understanding and

as an indication of the needed progress.

Open and maintain an organ of reflection and

offering – a Forum – constantly accessible, both

physically and virtually, wherein each and everyone

may present an observation, a question, so as to

place it in relation to the spirit of Auroville.