Members of the second caravan
In early 1974 an Aurovilian, Jean-Claude Bieri, who was on a
visit to France, suggested forming another caravan to take a large number of
people to Auroville. Christine Devin, Nicole Elfi and Shankar, who were working
in the office of the Auroville French Association in Paris, enthusiastically
took up the challenge of organizing it. While Jean-Claude went to Germany to
purchase a second-hand Mercedes bus, they circulated news about the caravan in
their bulletin, and began collecting names.
By September about 30 people had signed up, and their
details had been sent to Shyamsunder, the Auroville liaison appointed by Mother
(Mother had left her body in November, 1973). Not everybody was immediately
accepted by him. Nicole and Christine were rejected because they not have
sufficient funds to stay for one year in Auroville, Claude Arpi because he did
not treat the application form with the proper respect (“it seemed so old
world”), and ...
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