so strongly and atavistically impregnated of an
hardly colonizing mental inhabits. The Indian spirit and the nature
of this Yoga seem to have prevailed, tinted and determined a pretty
uniform “sattwic” atmosphere, which could well — unfortunately
(?) — be self-sufficient and not ask for too much change (even
creative) which would put in danger the so assured equilibrium and safety
(of an habit or an institutional convention ?); we have not been sufficiently
invited or solicited to discover in it truly more intimate fibres, coming
certainly from different waters, without doubt. For so little that we
have seen or felt generally, it seems that there are some rules of life,
of organisation, which, although under certain aspects are basic practices
of collective running which have to exist and are of course the holders
of order and necessity, however they have strongly the tendency to fossilize,
to limit, to lock up, to confine, and would even go sometimes —
for what we were actually able to sense through certain exhibitions
or different events — , to dry and change the nature of the individual
creative expression and deviate it from its first personal spiritual
and/or collective vocation, and this, as well as on the yogic creative
levels of the being than on the more exterior plastic or artistic levels
(and its derivatives) of formal expression. (We are here in an Âshram,
not in the world, in this world where this cleavage can take place and
be lived without having apparently any consequences towards the regard
of a public generally ignorant; in the yogic process, the creation and
the Yoga can and have to merge intimately into the unified being or
in a process of unification; to resume, unity does not inevitably rhyme
with uniformity). It seems that there is there a regressive movement,
a lack of real and new breathing which burden the creative expression
in general and cannot affranchise from the Past. It was pretty obvious
for us to notice from what we had personally to encounter and to live
through our own nature confronted to the Yoga of Sri Aurobindo; aspect
which then made us practise and live the error, sometimes the amorality,
to go beyond the limits of a too formal and reducing, indeed even “fossilizing”
convention of rules, to lead the being to meet himself in his most powerful
and profound lacks of knowledge and contradictions but also to extract
from him the occult and hidden forces which could transmute and express
themselves in creative languages. But without concluding and discoursing
more on the sketch of this observation which would ask for a more consequent
development and more precise details, we can see there the wide print
of two cultures so opposed where individualism and ‘collectif’,
respectively and communally manifested in our inner and outer Occident
and Orient, are the decisive agents that can and must be yet complementary
in the approach of this Yoga, such as Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have
put them in evidence and in Light and tied them, the purpose