Letter to the Editor

Dear friends,

I am happy to read the ‘Views on the International Zone’ in a past issue. May I respond as one who has been part of the International Zone Group in Auroville since the early days… keep this ‘window’ open and let inputs come from round the globe!

The International Zone Group moved into the Bharat Nivas campus of this Zone some months back, where it now has its base. This enables us to work together and feel the pulse of world forces that are shaping the future.

We have just completed 50 years of the Auroville experience. We have gone through many phases of our searching for the contours of this Zone, in particular. They were necessary stepping stones in our process.

We now stand on a threshold – of which there have been many! – where the world … in its accelerated pace forward… seems to have overtaken us. There are questions:

Do we even sense the direction in which this movement of the world-forces is taking place?

Do we reflect this movement in our work here? Are we in sync?

Do we stand at a crossroad where a change of directional attitude is needed to be part of this ‘flow’ in which the world moves?

There is a ‘fluidity’ of change which marks our times… can we lend ourselves to this process?

The Mother has said that nations should engage themselves in the ‘building’ of the International Zone of Auroville.

To remind ourselves of Her words: “I am speaking of the countries in CREATING something…. The point is a combined interest in building something based on the Truth.”

Also, a few words from Mother about Auroville, which bear an urgent import on the threshold where we stand…

“It is the best chance men have to avoid a general conflict.”

Dear editors, having opened this ‘window’ through the pages of the journal, may I request you to widen it further so as to make one continuum through which the dynamics of Auroville and world forces meet… to create our common future.

Warmly,

Aster