At the moment, a number of residents
are actively engaged in coming up with new proposals for our organization,
including ways to strengthen the Residents Assembly and select members of key
working groups. Other Aurovilians are working hard on finding ways to protect
the land.
All of this work is essential. However, since
many of these discussions take place in public forums it is easy to assume that
these are the only issues, or even the main issues, which preoccupy most
Aurovilians. But this is not necessarily the case. For Aurovilians who depend
on a basic maintenance and have dependents to look after, ensuring that they
can manage to pay their bills and/or repay loans each month often assumes a
higher priority, while many Newcomers are more focussed on the need to find
accommodation and/or fulfilling the quota of work hours prescribed by the Entry
Service. Teachers, commercial unit managers and those working in services often
have little energy or interest to devot...
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