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multitude of “favours”. There is no end to that trend, and it is bound to
eventually corrupt the very approach to Matrimandir.
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There are physical and practical reasons as well, particularly in the
present conditions of a working site, with little achieved of the basic
infrastructure and reception facilities. Moreover people are seldom
prepared for the unique experience of the Inner Chamber, and there is
need for a team of volunteers on duty to guide or assist whoever
comes in for the first time. This cannot as yet be arranged on a full-
time basis.
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People coming to Matrimandir ought o feel, even now with all the work
activities in progress, that the access to the Inner Chamber is
something truly special, and that certain steps must be taken for one
to be given that opportunity. The Mother spoke of a sense of
“initiation”. Later on, as the Park and Gardens and Petals become
materialised, people will be helped and concretely prepared by
gradually entering a favourable atmosphere, mood or state.
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Ever since the time the Inner Chamber has been deemed to be
sufficiently ready to begin fulfilling its role and to receive individuals for
the purpose of concentration, we have felt that we must learn, each
and all, to regard its access as the access to the Mother Herself, to Her
own living Presence. The Mother has specifically said that everyone
would have to obtain permission to enter; it wouldn’t be “just like
that”, and any doubtful case must be referred to Her…
We are not here to discriminate.
But we must act as stewards and in our service we must make sure that a certain
quality of approach is respected by all.”
- On “Personal Maintenance”:
“When in consultation with the then Economy Group we had opted for an increase
of the Personal Maintenances in kind rather than in cash and requested the
Financial Service to open accounts “in kind” besides the current cash accounts, we
were under the impression that this step would go in support of the general effort
towards an internal economy that would free itself from the circulation of money.
However, progress is slow and as of today, but for clothes through the newly
reformed “Nandini” Service, it remains impossible to receive the materials needed
for one’s livelihood.
Yet the possibilities are there. And we do feel that what is actually lacking is an
effective, well-oriented coordination between the various productive units (including
farms) and the services, based on unity of purpose.
The challenge is not merely to support a community of so many individuals: it is to
evolve the attitude and the means of an economy based on truth, at the service of
the Divine in Matter.
These are big words indeed, and the reality they point at may still be distant from
us if one is to judge by our many failings.
But Auroville exists by the very quality and intensity of an aspiration, a striving and
perseverance in orientation, thrust and progress.