the integration process in this place, visa that was given to us and that could effectively allow us to plan a more adapted life to our aspiration’s quest and nature, and that, starting July 2000: the statute of New-Comer having been suspended because of housing problems, the transitory statute of Long Term Guest was only given to us until this question would be solved.
It has to be notified that we went to Auroville with a reserve, the one of the verification, assured by the previous answers clearly opposed and the memory of certain foreseen aspects that did not appear to us scarcely ‘orthodox’, if you let me say that so! This principle of verification has always been the key of our actions for then extracting the result of the experience in all its aspects, and especially avoiding to get into in a definitive situation of dependence or allowing a power to establish any pressure which could limit and get in a way of our choices and freedom action instead of more creative individual gestures. We shall discover how much we had then seen right when we realized how certain organisms used and will use this power and will take it to reject what does not want to bow before their well little kind Ignorance knowing the importance that such acts can have in the memory of the Yoga.
Very rapidly we felt very strongly the negative side of what we had already well before felt during our last visits, namely a vulgarity, a pretension (ah, inheritances!), a lack of regard to the other, a take of power on key-responsibilities of this city that suffocated us sufficiently to make us realized that it was not the Auroville of our inner aspiration but that it was the full sad “edulcorated” image of a Reality that could be so different and beautiful and pure of real intention, if… . But then again, we had to realize progressively the evidence of this state of fact with all that it can hold in this positioning to take . Strategy imposed itself. To palliate transitorily this emptiness, the solution was then the gift of being able to meet an other being present at the same time in Auroville, a closed woman friend that we already met in France during one seminar of the ‘Institut des Recherches Évolutives’* (*created by Satprem) in the Massif-Central in France, this being of encounter of a blessed coincidence who also suffered ‘by chance’ from this same emptiness, from this essential absence which does not allow the life to be pretty simply alive, and not one more simple and mechanical officialdom — even pseudo-spiritual —, suffering of a same impossibility, as if each mischievous and impish sincerity of life without any ambiguity was absorbed, struggled and annihilated by a negation of not being. We took together the decision of allowing ourselves a time of more inner breathing and maybe even more profoundly human by proposing to ourselves the translation of some pages of Savitri, to ‘see’ !… It was without thinking on the power of this Writing, we were literally absorbed and we spent most of our free time beside our duty*