It is with immense gratitude that I try to encapsulate in a few insufficient words the gift that the Delta has meant, and continues to mean to me.

The simplest way in which I would summarise the Delta is to call it a Sacred Journey.

As an aspirant to the integral yoga of Sri Aurobindo and Mother, their teachings are usually more than sufficient to me, and I do not look for anything outside. And yet, when our dear friend Natasha spoke of the Delta, something deep inside me responded with an immediate Yes. The most immediate attraction for me was its collective dimension, the prospect of a regular deep sharing with fellow Aurovilians, something that has been rare in our community so far, and which I had been missing all along.

Once entered the process, I loved and appreciated the double focus on the individual and our collective journey, perfectly integrated and in balance.

Throughout the journey I felt held, supported, and guided, while at the same time left free to explore the dimension in focus with my own sense of truth…

I was literally looking forward to the next Delta meeting throughout the whole week!

Every position felt just so ‘right’, as a gift, even though I felt that (pressurised as we are in this period by the intense demands of the crisis Auroville is facing) I was only just dipping my toes into the water of an infinite richness. Each time I had a feeling of ‘falling in love’ with the position I was in, with the sense of a deep wisdom guiding the process.

The time given for each position felt too short, I felt I was not honouring it enough and would have loved to spend two weeks or even a month in each position. While it was often with a sense of attachment and of reluctance that I would move on into the next position, as soon as the shift was done, there was a sense of it being the perfectly logical next step, each new position growing organically out of the previous one…

I much appreciated the audios, particularly those on the gene keys (which spoke to me more immediately and were more ‘accessible’ than the longer written texts on the same gene keys). What a joy, what a gift to be given at last some true keys to address the shadows in our human nature that are longing to be recognised and transformed… In fact, very often as soon as I would enter a position, I got faced with everything that contradicts it in my nature!! which I spontaneously welcomed as a blessing. I resonated with many jewels from those rich introductions and can’t wait to return back to them, as I feel I only just started the discoveries and the journey…

I was amazed again and again how amazingly life responds to the Delta, bringing up exactly – often very intensely! – the experiences inviting the intended learning at each step. And not only individually, but we experienced this also collectively. A small example: The person on position 7 was facing a financial shortage; her learning was to learn to trust and to open up to divine Grace, while for the person in position 1 the obvious step was to provide some material grounding by dealing with finances (a pos. 1 task), and offering a small step towards a fairer distribution of resources… In this way, the Delta led us organically beyond the inner dimension (of feeling at one with each other inwardly) into a concrete action of solidarity on the material plane. I believe this is one of the blessings of doing the Delta in an intentional community, and our experience was only a first step of so much more that is waiting to unfold…

During ‘integration week’, I did as suggested, simply letting go of any particular focus, just allowing life to unfold. To my amazement, I received a huge gift of ‘integration’! An unexpected visit by a small group of South Africans, deeply engaged in the healing and transformation of my ‘adoptive’ country, allowed me at last to integrate the different ‘lives’ I had lived in the three countries shared between us.
(We discovered that we were probably the only two couples on the planet that got married thrice, in the same three countries, South Africa, Canada and India! ☺ ) The visit of Jay, Lucie and Rutendo, who felt instantly and deeply ‘family’ with a profound sense of kinship, healed for me at last the sense of having ‘abandoned’ South Africa and my commitment towards the country’s healing when we had to move away… What a blessing of integration in the most unexpected way!

Needless to say that when we were offered to embark on another round of the Delta journey, I signed up for the next available flight! Our groups were reshuffled, and while tuning in with a new team, I am still missing the meetings with my previous group, having developed a sense of deep connection and oneness. But since we are
part of the same community, I trust that the divine magic will keep unfolding and spreading, allowing us to unfold and discover more and more he sense of truly being one large family, children of the Mother united in Her infinite Love.

Jasmin, Auro Orchard, Auroville (February 2023)