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challenge: how to live and grow together in the presence of the implosion of
consciousness the Matrimandir increasingly manifests.
We do not see that, where design matters are concerned, the vision that has come
through Roger A is necessarily to be questioned.
What we see and feel is that the Matrimandir has to be whole and that each of us is
requested to make the necessary effort to contribute to this wholeness.
From the Forum the request was issued, by consensus, a few months ago, to also
interrupt the work of casting additional platforms on the Level II of the sphere.
This request expressed the sense, widely shared, that there is no need for contrived
interior designs – such as these introduced recently by Roger A -, and that the
entire inner space of the sphere should keep to its structural simplicity.
This said, however, we find that one must also make the effort of offering precise
and concrete proposals in answer to specific questions of details having a bearing
on the harmony of the space, such as the attachment of the hand-rails of the
inclined spiral ramps.
At present it is our view that exhaustive studies of alternative materials for the
inner skin, and possibly for the outer coating of the ferro cement shell, require
immediate attention.
And we consider that this constitutes a test for the validity of the Forum in terms of
constructive and truly helpful support for the completion of the Matrimandir: it must
prove that it is able, by its spirit, to mobilise and motivate enough of us to work
together.”
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*Working note on access to the Matrimandir, December 9, 1996.
“- Introduction.
What do we have to guide us towards an organisation the implementation of which
will not tend to betray the very truth and purpose of the Matrimandir?
We have a few specific excerpts of conversations recorded by Satprem with the
Mother, in Her Agenda, which relate to the Inner Chamber.
We have a small number of messages and statements by the Mother regarding the
Matrimandir as a whole.
We have a vast body of written work on the Integral Yoga and the individual and
collective Yoga of Transformation and evolution, by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.
We have a comprehensive array of notes, statements, letters, messages, recorded
talks and comments by the Mother on a whole range of questions of practical
behaviour in relation to the goals.
What certainties do we derive from the above as regards the Matrimandir, its role,
its raison d’être, its function and its action?