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- 1997 -
*Update on the completion of the Matrimandir.
(Note: this document was presented to the Matrimandir Forum sometimes in April
of 1997. This is an example of the numerous documents and reports we had to
write and present in the years to come, at various fora!)
“It is certainly time that we share with all those who are concerned with the
Matrimandir a clear summary of the situation and a sense of direction.
We hope that with the help of this sharing most rumours, if not all, will be dispelled
and the atmosphere will be energised again with a call and a welcome for
everyone’s contribution, for which there is urgent need.
If we have waited so long, it is because we did not want to induce vain expectations
which the results of our researches might have later contradicted, in such major
areas as the gilding of the discs and the realisation of the translucent inner shell.
Yet it would have helped matters had we communicated and had everyone been
aware of the work in progress in all the other areas of the completion of the
Matrimandir.
For, as we have seen and experienced again during this year most people, whether
in Auroville or elsewhere, tend to focus selectively, or even exclusively on matters
which to them are symbolic or representative and to ignore, relegate or neglect all
the other parts of the whole.
We on the site cannot do this. Our commitment is to the whole body and expression
of the Matrimandir, and thus to a path of realisation which is not linear or exclusive,
but integral and comprehensive.
The outward appearance of the sphere of the Matrimandir, its “design”, to use the
fashionable term, has been since the beginning, and remains a controversial and
dramatic issue which distorts the concern of most people, deflects the necessary
energies from their course and reduces the terms of the adventure of the
Matrimandir to conflicts of opinions, to the detriment of our essential receptivity.
What would the Matrimandir signify without its approach, the structural movements
at once embracing and offering its sphere, the rich gardens laying fields of
conscious energy around it, the body of water protecting it, the parkland girding it
with the earthly strength of its tall trees, the city alive as a wheel of search ever
expanding from its hub of permanence and transforming power?