Returning to Plan “A”

Amid the chaos of the crashing of Auroville’s facades, one can sense now, silently being born, but already immensely powerful, the re-emergence of Auroville’s orientation towards its true goal: a fundamental change of consciousness, the growth of a real, deep, unifying link between its residents, and another way of being.

Everything we have tried to build, or almost everything, is collapsing, or being distorted out of recognition by our current encounter with World Forces.

Up till now, Auroville engaged the world a bit remotely, through outreach, through projects put into action on the world stage, but now the world has entered the very fabric of Auroville in full force and we meet its presence and actions on a daily, even minute to minute, basis.

But there is a growing glow deep inside, a glow which tells us that even though our old external stage is being reduced to rubble, that even while our surface conventions are basically being cast aside, this apparent destruction has behind it the secret intention of the Time Spirit. That the Time Spirit is forcing us along a path, not of our choosing, but a path that offers us an opportunity, once again, of growing towards the true Auroville, to take more rapidly a next step in its evolution.

 Basically, we are being returned to the red desert of the 60s and 70s.

This is a new kind of desert, but also like that in the 70s the only tangible support is our Need, our thirst for the true Auroville to grow, and to manifest.

Now, a different kind of desert is being introduced, the desert of the external world, which is totally preoccupied with the outward scene.

So, for some time to come, there will be two faces of Auroville: the outward, public, visible structure now being forcibly built, and then nestled deeply inside it, a growing Auroville family welded together by its urgent need to realise the true goals set out for us by the Mother.

It is as if the Time Spirit has declared that she now has no time to waste. No time for the Auroville of the 2000s to quietly grow as a green ecologically oriented community, no time even for Auroville to manifest itself as a perfected galaxy.

The world needs the emergence of the true Auroville spirit. The emergence of a deep binding unity between peoples from all corners of the planet, between man and man. And the emergence of powers of knowledge and action which we cannot now even understand or dream of.

So, personally, seeing the chaos all around, living in it, feeling it, suffering from it, I begin to settle into the hope of an immense emergence.

Auroville is being returned by the Time Spirit, forcibly, to plan “A”.

The growth and manifestation of its true consciousness. No time now for meandering bypaths and a long hesitating evolution.

Will the Time Spirit be able to pull it off?  Perhaps it does not depend totally on us… (hopefully not!) but we surely have to pay attention and do what we can.  We can only try to remain centred deeply in our belief in Auroville’s true emergence, in the faith that even though we seem to be being swept away on the wings of the wind, there is indeed a deeper purpose being worked out.

And perhaps, eventually, with a quiet smile, we will be able to enjoy the ride.