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*19-8-1987, Auroville:
I went to visit Paolo, who has come back to Pondy. We mostly talked about
Matrimandir. He doesn’t want to come to any meeting unless asked by Roger A to
work for an alternative for the finished sphere. We talk and we feel the same way,
it is interesting. I understand him.
*20-8-1987, Auroville:
After lunch John H came to tell me that he and a few others had put up a few
cardboard mock-ups of the columns in the Chamber of Matrimandir, along with a
model to-scale of the globe resting on the four Sri Aurobindo’s symbols, and that I
should go and see… So I went, a while later; it is good; but I keep feeling that they
have made the symbols too small and too crowded and the columns a little too fat!
But it is perhaps just “opinion”!
*21-8-1987, Auroville:
I am increasingly bothered by the sun, with dizziness and fatigue; it is as is the
atmosphere was filtering the wrong rays! This year it keeps hitting like a mean,
nasty bombardment… sometimes, like late morning when I cycle back here, I feel
so wiped out, so drained that I am trembling…
*22-8-1987, Auroville:
Ar. tells me about Matrimandir, and the new team dedicated to… Roger A…!
*24-8-1987, Auroville:
The physical mind – it is really that most material part of the mind that is one with
the instrument, the brain-processes – is… unbearable! I have wondered whether
this recrudescence of its activity (it was fairly quiet for years) is due to my practice
of the asanas, which make the energy flow everywhere in the body… But there is
only one way: to go deeper into the true consciousness of the body, its awareness
of the Lord…
*29-8-1987, Auroville:
I must make a move now, to see how to proceed with the work and how to get the
funds. For many months now I have been naturally thinking of this place as
connected to evolution, to research; a special place to receive certain guests or to
shelter for a few days individuals in Auroville who need to take a break and to re-
charge; and I have long thought of Sharan as a possible keeper and caretaker; I
am also thinking of Bhaga who, together with her, is running the “Laboratory of
Evolution” at Bharat Nivas. So probably I’ll have to make it known to them soon
and find out if it corresponds to their needs and may fit their plans…
*31-8-1987, Auroville:
Bhaga and Sharan came here this evening, as they had learnt that I was looking for
them; they will come to visit “Ravena” tomorrow; they seem to connect to my
“idea”; let us see…