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- 1995 -
Note: Sometimes during the previous year, JYL and I had eventually obtained the
permission to build a fairly large house for him, Patricia and Aurevan, in “Sincerity”.
The construction of this house took me nearly 3 years, mainly due to lack of funds,
but also because, working full-time at Matrimandir, I could not hire more than a few
workers whom I trusted well enough; Arunasalam did most of the work with a
couple of helpers, from the foundations to the last finishing touches, including the
plumbing.
Of the year 1995, I have somehow kept almost no traces, but for a couple of texts.
*Commentary on Matrimandir, March 1995:
(Note: in March of 1995, two French people, Paulette and Philippe, were sent by
“Auroville International France” to make a video on Matrimandir; they asked me to
speak as a running commentary. The following is the English translation of that
commentary.)
“The first thing to be said is that, according to the Mother’s instructions, the
approach to the Matrimandir is essentially individual and one must make a request.
It is not a place one enters automatically just because one wishes to. It is a place
one must prepare oneself to enter.
For the first visit there will probably always be an appointed hour in the day, which
will serve as an introduction.
But one ought to approach the Matrimandir not only as a privileged point of
concentrated spiritual energy, but as an integral experience.
It is not only the Inner Chamber of the Matrimandir that matters: its whole
environment matters equally.
An integral experience… that means… it is a whole… an organisation of the truth. It
is, it manifests the true consciousness.
So, each person will first make their request.
Then one enters Auroville and comes towards its centre, which is a park.
At the entrance of this Park, one has to show a sort of Pass.
One enters the Park, which is the protection of the Gardens of Matrimandir; thus
one is already in an environment of peace, of calm.
Through the Park one reaches the edges of the Gardens.
The Gardens… It is an area that is 10 times the dimensions of the sphere of
Matrimandir (360 meters by 290 meters).