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Letter to the EditorsBy RN Haldipur

Keywords: Auroville Foundation Act, 1988, The Divine, Ideals of Auroville and Letters

Sir,

I read with great interest the monthly newsletter “Auroville Today” of November 1988. I am very happy to learn that the Government of India has now passed the bill in the Parliament promoting the Auroville Foundation with a three-tier system, having an International Advisory Council, a Governing Board and for the management and day-to-day running of Auroville the Auroville Residents Assembly and its Working-committee.

The Bill will give a sense of participation and direction to this unique experiment in international living. The Mother gave a Charter mentioning that the Aurovilian should be a Divine Servitor – an instrument of Divine Will seized by a spirit of true surrender which according to Her “enlarges you, it increases your capacity, it gives you a greater measure in quality and quantity which you would not have had by your self.”

I am delighted to hear about the pre-eminent role which you will all be playing and I send all the residents of Auroville who are the fortunate and active partners in this adventure, my very best wishes and warm felicitations.

With greater autonomy and freedom, there is great amount of responsibility to become a model and a beacon light of spiritual life and healthy and robust living – to set norms and goals for many others to emulate, apart from deriving a love and joy and happiness out of it. We have no doubt that you will all set an example, as you have already done so far, and build a cohesive, vibrant community to achieve the ideals for which The Mother had conceived and established Auroville.

Yours sincerely,

R.N. Haldipur

(Ex Lieutenant-Governor of Pondicherry and Arunachal Pradesh, ex Director of I.R.M.A.)

Bangalore, 5-12-1988