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HOUSE OF MOTHER’S AGENDA (Mother first reads out for All India Radio the message she intends to broadcast for February 21, 1968, on the occasion of her ninetieth birthday.) "It is not the number of years you have lived that makes you old. You become old when you stop progressing. As soon as you feel you have done what you had to do, as soon as you think you know what you ought to know, as soon as you want to sit and enjoy the results of your effort, with the feeling you have worked enough in life, then at once you become old and begin to decline. When, on the contrary, you are convinced that what you know is nothing compared to all that remains to be known, when you feel that what you have done is just the starting point of what remains to be done, when you see the future like an attractive sun shining with innumerable possibilities yet to be achieved, then you are young, howsoever many are the years you have passed upon earth, young and rich with all the realisations of tomorrow. And if you do not want your body to fail you, avoid wasting your energies in useless agitation. Whatever you do, do it in a quiet and composed poise. In peace and silence is the greatest strength." MOTHER’S AGENDA, 8 November 1967 MOTHER One or two days ago, I don't know, there was a sort of general vision of this striving of the earth towards its divinization, and someone seemed to be saying (not "someone": it was the witness-consciousness, the consciousness observing, but it gets formulated in words - very often it's formulated in English and I have a kind of impression that it is Sri Aurobindo, his active consciousness, but sometimes it gets translated into words only when it enters my consciousness), and these last few days, it was something saying, "Yes, the time of proclamations, the time of revelations is past - now, on to action." Proclamations, revelations, prophecies, all that is after all very comfortable, it gives a sense of something "concrete"; now it's very obscure, there is a sense that it's very obscure, invisible (it will be visible only in results far, far ahead), and not understood. Not understood, of course ... Someone, C., wanted to translate Notes on the Way and A Propos into Hindi, in one volume. He spoke with R. about it, and R. wrote to me, "People don't understand anything," and he feels "the human language is unfit to express that, so how will it turn out in a translation? - A platitude. It would be better to wait." I fully agree, I told him it would be better to wait. But it gave me the exact measure. Because R. and C. are people who are expected to understand, and they clearly don't understand anything. And then, Nolini was here, I gave him the letter to read, and he said, "Oh, yes!" - For him too it's the same thing, he hasn't understood! So it's general. Because lots of people quote to me what I said, or experiences they've had, explanations they give "in accordance with" those Notes on the Way, and every time I see that they haven't understood ANYTHING. So it seems to me to be a general incomprehension. (silence) It belongs to a region which isn't yet ready to be explained, manifested in words. It's obvious, I see it clearly, you know: it's because they are all quite nice, full of respect, that they don't allow their mind to say, "This is drivel," but for them it belongs to the incomprehensible. And as a matter of fact, insofar as it's truly new, it is incomprehensible. What I say doesn't correspond to a lived experience in the one who reads. I see clearly, so clearly the little work, like this (gesture of reversal), which would turn the thing into a prophetic revelation! A little work, a slight reversal in the mind - the experience is wholly outside the mind, so what can be said about it is ... (Mother shakes her head). Precisely because it's not mental, it's nearly incomprehensible, and for it all to become (oh, it's so visible), for it all to become accessible, it would take just (same gesture) a slight reversal in the mind, and then it would become prophetic. But that ... isn't possible. It would lose its truth. Well, it's on the way. MOTHER’S AGENDA, 15 November 1967 MOTHER The Ponder Corner “Love, joy and happiness come from the psychic. The Self gives peace or a universal Ananda”. Sri Aurobindo Ref. Letters on Yoga, vol 2, p.1078 Cover drawing by J.Pavitra IV STD News&Notes 30 th November 2013[525] 2
ANNOUNCEMENTS Participatory Working Groups’ & a ‘New Selection Process for the Working Committee and AV Council Dear Community, The Study group for ‘Participatory Working Groups’ & a ‘New Selection Process for the Working Committee and AV Council’ recently had a joined meeting with the Working Committee, AV Council and RAS. We came to the following understanding to: 1. Postpone the RA for a decision on the proposal called previously for Saturday the 30th of November. The new date will be announced after the 3rd General (Info) Meeting. 2. And to call for a 3rd General (Info) Meeting on Monday 9th December 2013 in the Unity Pavilion, 4 - 6.30 pm. In the previous 2 GMs the proposal was presented in detail, while now we want to give space for question and answers only and to work all together on a final proposal. There will be no presentation of the proposal in its entirety. 3. The Working Committee & AV Council have confirmed that they will continue with their service until the selection for a new WC and AV Council has been finalized and the new working groups are ratified and in place. RAS team Housing assets available for transfer/new stewardship: Creativity - 70 sqm, apartment, 1 bedroom Ami - 2 floors house, 137 sqm, for a family Prayatna -97 sqm, 2 bedrooms apartment Auromodel - there are 2 different houses of 3 floors with big garden For details please look in AV net - the icon with the house on the right column [tel. 2622658, housing@auroville.org.in] TDC - L’avenir d’Auroville TDC - L’avenir d’Auroville has decided to bring the following Site & Building applications to the News & Notes for feedback. INDIVIDUAL PROJECT: 1. Velu, Cultural Zone( Near TLC), Change of Roof - temporary roof (tiles or corrugated sheet) TDC asks for Feedback from the residents of Auroville is welcome within two weeks from the date of publication. If anyone wishes to have detailed information when building applications are published, feel free to contact TDC - L’avenir d’Auroville office: 262-3568 or come personally to the Building Application section. FOR YOUR INFORMATION There is light at the end of the tunnel Auroville Energy Products (AEP) is happy to announce the launch of its solar street, park and path light products. All units are based on highly efficient LEDs backed up by compact and light weight Lithium batteries. Due to the new battery technology the new street lights could be shrunk to a single all-in-one unit and comes with a 5 year warranty. The lamp is made of long lasting aluminium die cast housing and has a motion sensor which conserves energy by auto dimming the lamp when there is no activity. We have installed a range of demo models along the sunlit path to our work shop, behind Auromode in Auroshilpam. Please feel free to have a look (best viewed after sunset) or contact us for more information under 2622581 (aep@auroville.org.in). HT cable laying update Dear community, Following our last communication on the routing of the HT cable -see our posting " Crown infrastructure" dated August 30th which appeared both on Auronet and N&N- we want to update you on our proposal. As stated before, it is the view of L'avenir/TDC team that the best technically, cheapest and least damaging route for this cable is through Centre Field following broadly the line of the Crown. (See the rationale explained in the above mentioned posting). We have come up with an option that fully avoids buildings and stays outside people's living spaces, simply by looping around Tapas and Txuma's place in Centre Field and around part of Joy Guest House. (Please see the map posted on Auronet and on the board at TDC office, Town Hall 2nd floor) This option is seen by us as the most consistent with the brief that was given to us by the community when our team was formed, that is to try and reconcile diverging approaches in the community regarding planning and development, leave time for consensus to emerge, while staying true to the community's decision to respect the basic framework of the master plan of which the Crown is a key element and while allowing much needed infrastructural progress that will make all our lives easier to occur. It is also consistent with the Crown Ways approach that welcomes the existence of a Crown but sees it primarily as an urban landscape rather than a road with the usual traffic issues it brings. Please note that the TDC is fully aware of the importance of mobility studies - one is now underway - prior to taking any decision regarding the opening of new accesses. We want to proceed rapidly as we are working to a deadline and AVES needs to start with the work promptly. We are therefore submitting this proposal for 2 weeks feedback to the community. Sincerely, TDC/ L'avenir POSTINGS La Piscine re-opens its gate to bicycles! Please do not push the gate open with your tires and take care not to scrape the paint! However…we request, that before bringing your bike inside, you dismount and manually open the gate to its maximum open position. News&Notes 30 th November 2013[525] Close the gate after entering and exiting. Please park your bike on the left side of the gate as you enter. Thank you! 3
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