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It seems to me that the highest source of inspiration lies in the Mother alone, and
that we are in dire need, at all levels and in all directions, of this sense of evidence
and timelessness that can only be experienced when we are open to her and are
moved by Her in Her ways.
The whole history of this present Auroville began with Her relating Her vision of a
Park, sheltering Her Pavilion.
This, to me as to many others, is a central key to the vibrancy of that collective
existence, the beginnings of which the Mother has sought to create here.
It cannot be dismissed as mere historical fact. She is ahead of us all,
immeasurably. Her voice is not of the past; it is waiting.
And, just as in the late 70s those present at the Matrimandir came to the decision
that the columns would be erected in the Inner Room, whether the “chief architect”
agreed to it or not, simply because She had seen them, just in the same spirit of
affirming Her dream and the Law of Her wish, I believe completely that it is time for
us all to say: the Park and the Gardens of the Matrimandir will be created, simply
because She has seen them.
And this must be done with the “Chief Architect”’s collaboration.
This is all I have to say for now – I do have a lot more to say on other aspects of
the Matrimandir’s “role”, another time.
But I ask, please everybody, look at the real issues, reflect upon them; do not allow
these farcical vendettas to continue in Auroville, do not allow, in the name of
goodwill and harmony, the reduction of Her dream to another pitiful saga of power.
There must be, there is, a way to stand FOR a deep, vast, sure, central vision, for
its realisation in matter, that does not end in standing against whoever seeks to
limit it.
At the service of Truth,
Divakar”
Note: This letter was posted on the internal Auroville net. The following week, it
appeared in print in the Auroville News. Along with it, two other open letters also
appeared: one by JYl and one by Luca; I enter both here, as they expressed
complementary positions.
*”Matrimandir: what is at stake?” by Jean Yves:
“A current opinion about the divergences and conflicts around Matrimandir is that it
has no deep significance: it is only egos battling for supremacy.
This is a very lazy thought, if a thought at all; it is rather a way not to look at what
is at stake.
For others, what is at stake is simple and obvious: the truth of a vision is prevented
to manifest physically by the obstruction of the ignorance or the bad will of those
who have taken responsibility on the site, and who are then credited with the