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As we have chosen to dedicate ourselves to the task of fulfilling Mother’s will we
always have expected this to be implemented and nothing else. We have all gone
through Her recorded statements and we all agree that it is very clear that She
wanted a “park” surrounding the Matrimandir with the plants She named with their
spiritual qualities and trees. A perimeter protecting belt of tall trees in the outer
gardens was also envisaged and already partially implemented in 280 selected trees
not by us but by previous Aurovilians according to Her vision. These are
indispensable elements of Her vision that cannot be ignored.
It is our belief that it is not only our responsibility but that of every Aurovilian to
follow faithfully Her instructions.
It was our expectation from the work of the MDSG to inform the community that
this original concept of a park has been arbitrarily changed into a different one.
What we have been presented with now is a lawn of grass bare of any tree together
with a legalised environmental disaster of a big water body facing coffee shops and
town annex offices of the surrounding buildings as it can be seen already.
It is our common perception that the proposed “Management team” will only
implement such an arbitrary change of concept guided by political means already
active in the community. And a most important point is that any management
group has to know the directions in which it is going before it can act. The major
design decisions have to be made as the very first step in this process.
For the gardens, lake and park in particular, the Residents Assembly has to make
an informed decision in which direction to follow and then only can any
management team venture to organise a detail designing and finally the work
execution.
Mother’s will and vision were already clearly expressed for all to see; any
architectural symbolic addition will only suppress the living message She wanted to
express through living beings, the plants and their flowers She was in contact with.
All these last months it was not an opposition that the Matrimandir group wants to
express but a will of obedience to Her will and Her living spiritual message to all of
us.
We therefore conclude that only an effort to implement this very point will bring
harmoniously all of us to the final moments of truth and accomplishment of Her
Matrimandir.
Luca”
Note: Another member of our now officially defunct but still operating team, Walter,
in the same week also posted his own open letter in the internal Auroville Net.
Walter had come to Auroville in the late 80s, about the time when Roger A had
returned, and he had first worked, as a landscape engineer, directly under Roger A,
to redefine and eventually confirm the general layout of the gardens, water body
and park surrounding Matrimandir, layout which had served as our physical basis of
implementation from 1972 to the present day.