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The first one of these approaches, which is more of a tendency or attitude –
nonetheless very much active –, meets at once with innumerable problems which it
is not equipped to face.
Let us then look at some of the implications and consequences, in short and long
terms, of the second and third approaches.
- Part II.
The second approach has been applied since May, 1995, and has since undergone a
few modifications and refined itself.
The third approach was actually applied first, gradually and gropingly, from 1992 till
April, 1995; it was not well understood, and therefore was not given the necessary
practical means to develop.
In the second approach, currently applied, the emphasis is on the quote earlier
referred to and, in particular, on the points underlined below:
“… Those who want to see… can be shown around… at a fixed time in the day or a
fixed day in the week… but no mixture… the rest of the time for those who are
serious…”
The intent here is to discourage the public at large from exerting pressure on the
physical organisation by insisting on “its rights” to enter the Inner Chamber.
It assumes that the majority of the people will be content with the satisfaction of a
superficial interest or curiosity, and that few will be who will ask for more. Those
few can then be directed to have access for an introductory experience of the Inner
Room for the purpose of concentration, which is set during the hour following the
official visiting hour.
People are thus allowed, with no other restriction than the time limit of one hour
(and any obvious misbehaviour), to view the Inner Room from its threshold for a
few seconds.
The impression they will retain and communicate thereafter will depend on their
further interest in, for instance, asking more questions at another occasion.
Tourism industry and its agencies have no problems in institutionalising tours that
include the viewing of the Inner Room of the Matrimandir as one of the worthwhile
sights in the area and in the country; they are only limited by the rule of one hour a
day, which they cannot, hopefully, question, as it comes directly from the Mother
(although She has added
“but, for the internal organisation, we will see later…”
).
In the third approach, which was initially applied almost from the time of the
completion of the Inner Room, and evolved through the first actual experience of
the relationship between the public and the Matrimandir, with little of
administrative facilities, rests on the complementarity of the following points, all
quotes:
. “Not everyone will be allowed in… one will not enter just like that...”
. “First, one has to ask…”
. “A fixed time in the day or a fixed day in the week for the visitors…”
. “For silence… silence and concentration. One will not come for regular
meditations, or anything like that…”
. “The whole area must be silent…”
. “To find one’s consciousness…”