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Luc Venet, “End of illusions”
Collaboration, Summer 2008

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(Luc Venet:) “At the beginning of 1976, a relatively recent resident of Auroville, I had received ‘by chance’ a bundle of mimeographed letters, then circulating in Auroville. I learned that ‘threats’ were being leveled at Satprem by certain Ashram authorities concerning the original manuscripts of Mother’s Agenda which he kept in his house in Nandanam.
         Without thinking, I rushed to offer him my support against the ‘enemy’, as vague for me as if all this were simply a work of fiction, but in fact very real and material for him, made up of real faces and people. Unknown to me, I was about to enter a world of internecine quarrels among certain Ashram members. Satprem, because of his personality and previous stances, was cast in a starring role. But I did not care about the ‘historical’ reality. I disregarded all contingencies. It was imperative for me to side with the underdog, the alleged victim; even if in doing so I was sacrificing reason and reflection upon the altar of spontaneity.
         Thus, I began a new life. I had chosen my camp, as it were. In my eagerness and naiveté, I subscribed to a past that was completely foreign to me, and eagerly began to endorse a psychological profile that was not mine.”[1]


(Luc Venet:) “In July 1977, Satprem and I ascended the steps leading to the Central Court building in L’Ile de la Cité in Paris, in order to register the statutes of the Institut de Recherches Evolutives, whose purpose was to publish and distribute Mother’s Agenda worldwide. The day before, a prominent Paris attorney had confirmed that the copyrights of the Agenda were Satprem’s legal property, thus opening the way to its publication independent of the Ashram’s good offices.”[2]




  1. Luc Venet, “End of illusions”, Collaboration, Summer 2008
  2. Ibid.


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