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But for many months not only the work on the structure around the Chamber is at
a standstill, but it has also stopped in the Gardens, and a growing inertia has
settled all around.
The human energies are not well channelled; there is imbalance in the work; even
inside the Chamber the work is only proceeding half-days, while outside of it hardly
anything happens.
Some say that there is, based at Matrimandir, a nucleus of resistance to the design
accepted by all; others say that, having refused all dialogue and rejected all
objections raised (which cannot have all been irrelevant) an “official” plan has been
bulldozed on Matrimandir, whose principal protagonist, Roger A, is in Auroville only
2 months out of 12 after an absence of 10 years or so, whose team has more or
less collapsed but for a few steadfast supporters who themselves are unable to
solve even its most basic technical inconsistencies.
But it could be that in such a status quo one is no longer able to perceive the
elements of a wholesome harmony which may lie on all sides, and therefore that an
active, revealing and resolving movement can no longer occur.
Roger has himself repeatedly told the community “you have to decide”!
Would it take too much of our pride to acknowledge that some commitment and
concern, some active meditation, some courage may have to be contributed on our
part before such a choice or decision can be truly made AND have a creative effect
on the work ahead of us?
Everyone will recall that one of the constant traits of Mother’s physical guidance
was to insist on agreement: genuine agreement rising out of everyone – not being
forced by some on the others. She used to say that we must first reach this
agreement, and the rest She will do.
She described in detail the Chamber She had seen. And this became the centre of
the work of building Matrimandir. It will be ready perhaps in some months.
Will it hang inside the skeleton of a sphere in the midst of an overgrown , neglected
terrain of mud and dust, with a few crops drying in the sun and patches of luxuriant
grass and some decrepit keet structures and the buses of tourists plying to and fro,
“is this a water-tank?”, “what is your native place?”…?
I request everyone in Auroville and particularly, I maintain, those of us who had the
opportunity to experience Her physical Presence and, being women, may have
developed an ability to attune to Her Force in life and in matter (are they all asleep
now, have they ceased to care?) to come forward and, as a team, to set an
atmosphere that will allow for the right choices to be discerned and the right
decisions to be made.
As a team they could commit to this task for a given period of time and work out
the ways they would proceed.
Perhaps as a first step they could interview the different people concerned and
listen to their views, consult model and drawings and ask questions, and take the
time to reach a living awareness of the entire physical reality of Matrimandir as of
its functions, present and future.