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10-
Ramps
11- Meditation rooms
12-
Coordination of design planning and construction
13-
Others…
Each of the above area will be under the charge of the responsible person who is a
technical expert in that field. He will be assisted by a team of volunteers,
consultants and workers.
In addition, the collective work of Matrimandir will be promoted by a team
consisting of all those who are responsible for the above areas through the method
of mutual consultation and by holding coordination meetings as and when
necessary.
This proposal it is written with the hope to give a new “élan”, a new move forward
towards the realisation of Matrimandir and to open the unfolding of new energies so
that Matrimandir “will be as soon as possible” as Mother wanted.
Roger Anger.”
Note: I had subsequently drafted a response to Roger A’s. I don’t now remember
whether it was actually communicated; perhaps I was prevented from publishing it
by the team!
*In response to Roger A’s “report” to the Governing Board.
“In our view and experience over many years at Matrimandir, not only as members
of the MMCG but as workers, what is at issue is an approach towards relationships
in the work of building the Matrimandir and its environment.
Roger A has stated repeatedly that he expects us to be subordinates and to regard
his decisions as ultimate.
But this is unacceptable to us, for the following reasons:
1-
Auroville’s adventure is a collective as well as an individual one, and one can
assume authority over other Aurovilians only as a natural result of one’s
proven ability to harmonise and lead rightly.
2-
Roger A has been absent from the Matrimandir work for nearly 15 years, and
is nowadays only present for two periods of the year.
3-
Roger A had taken in the past a number of decisions on designs and
technical ‘solutions’ which have proven to fail entirely, and yet he has taken
no responsibility for any of it, blaming it all on others.
4-
Roger A has been unable, from the very beginning, to offer a basis for real
collaboration – either with Piero who has been the main instrument for the
manifestation of the entire body of the Matrimandir, or with Paolo, whom the
Mother expressly wanted to be fully involved in the realisation of Her dream.
5-
The designs for the details of the finishing, as well as the main design of the
discs, are actually not Roger A’s, but the results of a combination of
influences, including M.Ferrari, Jacqueline, Anand, etc, and we have found it
increasingly difficult over the last several years to meet with Roger A himself,
free from a certain sycophancy and self-interested groupisme.