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as well as through the various significances of the flowers identified by the Mother
Herself.
In the descriptions that are on record, made by the Mother of Her visions, as well
as in the references made by Her to the Golden Temple Grounds in Kyoto, the spirit
of this environment and the balance between its main elements – detailed gardens
nearest to the Pavilion, a water body around that and the tall trees around it – are
very clearly outlined and evoked.
. Roger A’s contribution to the building of Auroville’s Soul has been respected; it
has materialised. The golden sphere and its twelve massive reddish petals have
been built. They stand in their forceful majesty for all to see. That work is done.
What of the intimacy, the nearness of the soul? Its atmosphere vibrant with
fragrant mystery, discovery made conscious in the silent rhythms of its profound
beauty?
What of its approach, which allows one to perceive the infinite riches of conscious
existence?
What was an issue of direction with far and deep-reaching implications for the work
of Auroville has become a political issue of control.
Resources, capacities, commitments are acknowledged insofar as they may serve
political ends, and the ‘Architect’, from the only meaningful ‘position’ of serving the
Mother’s dream in life and matter, has now sought to be installed as the sole and
ultimate authority over and above every other one of Her servitors, by political and
legal means and not by means of a genuinely acknowledged moral and spiritual
stature as a leader.
With this legal backing, his supporters have staked their claims on the actual
territory, biding their time until, convinced, the Government does remove the few
individuals who still remain as obstacles to the execution of his own designs.
But again, where is the space and where is the will to discern the terms of the
choice, to identify a direction that would bring all these trends together?
Should not the Governing Board, whose essential role is to guard the Charter and
the Spirit of the adventure called Auroville, insist on the only path of resolution, the
only way worthy of Auroville, that of collaboration and mutual respect, rather than
lend itself to the politicisation and personalisation of the choices to be made?
Divakar”
Note: The above text was posted and circulated.
I also wrote a short note to the “Core Group”:
*Note regarding the Matrimandir and its Sanctuary of Peace, to the Core
Group formed by the Governing Board of the Auroville Foundation, May
2003:
“There are those amongst us who have been for many years striving towards a
complete realisation in Matter – that realisation evoked and invoked by the Mother
in several recorded descriptions of Hers – and it was but natural that, as part of the