1988
(Amrit:) “On my 45th birthday, the 3rd October 1988, after the meditation Darshan in the Mother's room, generally observed on special occasions, I was walking down the middle of Pondicherry's main thoroughfare, Nehru Street, when Anna, a young German newcomer in Auroville, unexpectedly greeted me with a smile of unaccustomed goodwill, “How does it feel to again be an Aurovilian? You have been accepted into Auroville!”
The morning of this same day, a large convocation of Auroville residents had been convened in the Matrimandir Amphitheatre, to announce the decision by the Government of India, that “there are no longer any groups in Auroville, and all are to be accepted as Aurovilians.” Clearly, it was the Government that compelled our re-integration, not the benevolence of the Auroville Community, validating the worst fears of the Radicals. ...
Since the Government directive formally finished the conflict and ordered our re-acceptance by the Auroville community, those of us remaining in ARA (Auroville Residents' Association), the Neutral umbrella, gathered together, finally deciding to disband this organization that had served us for over six years. My own view was that its function had been fulfilled – primarily to protect us legally from unjust Collective depredations, and to assure our stay in Auroville. ...
Despite my own mixed feelings towards the Auroville Community – emotional reactions with which I have had to grapple for years to come – with the apparent resolution of the Revolution which sparked what seemed boundless turmoil, I was overcome by an immense sense of relief. The nightmare had finally ended. I was emerging from a bad dream, hazardous yet adventurous, of unmitigated proportions. This state of numbed wonder, indeed a kind of PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) war-time state of shock, appeared provoked by some fanciful yet odd and incredulous reverie – an illusory fantasy peopled by magicians both white and black, gnomes, titans, and dark armies of demonic entities, poised to overwhelm our world of customary but oft pedestrian sense of sanity.
The one literary context in which I could place the events that had occurred in Auroville was Tolkien's trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, concisely written in the 1940's, at the time a descriptive allegory of actual historical fact.”[1]
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