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Proposal:
“I wish to request Auroville to become actively concerned with Matrimandir and the
choices and decisions to be made regarding its completion.
My suggestion would be to call for a research team whose work would be based on
a fresh approach to the problems of choice involved, who would be impartial in the
sense that they would endeavour to listen to all the viewpoints and seek to identify
the components of a harmonious solution, which could then be presented to the
community at large.
We badly need this fresh approach.
In a recent proposal I made, at Matrimandir, I mentioned a team formed of women
who would have had the experience of the flowing of the Mother’s Force in the
physical, in the early days of Auroville; I did so because it seemed to me the closest
we could get to this necessary approach: a level of resolution wherein practicality
and inner sense are one; where what matters most is the flow, the active and
peaceful and puissant transforming flow of Her Force, without which there can be
no Matrimandir and no Auroville worth speaking about, without which there can be
no individual centring, no change of condition and no new creation.
I felt that these women, were they willing, would be more capable of attuning to it,
responding to it and working from it.
But in whatever form something must come from Auroville, as a tribute to the
central and indispensable function of Matrimandir – the soul of Auroville, yes, and
also the House of the Creative Principle, and the actual tool a collective venture
towards a truer life needs now and will increasingly need in future.
Back in 1987, this approach was lacking. It was lacking in the General Meeting of
October 1987 which, supposedly, unanimously or “by consensus” chose to follow
the design offered by Roger.
Now, nearly two years later, we are still spell-bound in the very same situation,
only worsened and grown almost habitual: absence of dialogue, entrenchment of
positions, accumulated hurts and ego-reactions. And nothing has happened on the
ground; nothing has materialised; there hasn’t been a single break-through.
Some research work is still being pursued outside Auroville, but it has little backing.
Yet the positions remain as rooted, even though a large number of individuals have
dropped out.
It is easy to say “oh! let them work it out”… But it is of no use.
The facts are that a “decision” was taken by Auroville; that it is binding and also
paralysing, since it may well be that it was either a slanted, biased and blinded, or
simply immature decision.
At any rate it does need to be reconsidered.
The entire issue isn’t merely one of decoration.
Matrimandir is one and cannot be seen in pieces and parts.
It is there to generate an atmosphere, a living and conscious help, a force of
creation.