journal d'une transition

1089

- 1997 -

*Update on the completion of the Matrimandir.

(Note: this document was presented to the Matrimandir Forum sometimes in April of 1997. This is an example of the numerous documents and reports we had to write and present in the years to come, at various fora!)

“It is certainly time that we share with all those who are concerned with the Matrimandir a clear summary of the situation and a sense of direction.

We hope that with the help of this sharing most rumours, if not all, will be dispelled and the atmosphere will be energised again with a call and a welcome for everyone’s contribution, for which there is urgent need. If we have waited so long, it is because we did not want to induce vain expectations which the results of our researches might have later contradicted, in such major areas as the gilding of the discs and the realisation of the translucent inner shell. Yet it would have helped matters had we communicated and had everyone been aware of the work in progress in all the other areas of the completion of the Matrimandir. For, as we have seen and experienced again during this year most people, whether in Auroville or elsewhere, tend to focus selectively, or even exclusively on matters which to them are symbolic or representative and to ignore, relegate or neglect all the other parts of the whole. We on the site cannot do this. Our commitment is to the whole body and expression of the Matrimandir, and thus to a path of realisation which is not linear or exclusive, but integral and comprehensive. The outward appearance of the sphere of the Matrimandir, its “design”, to use the fashionable term, has been since the beginning, and remains a controversial and dramatic issue which distorts the concern of most people, deflects the necessary energies from their course and reduces the terms of the adventure of the Matrimandir to conflicts of opinions, to the detriment of our essential receptivity. What would the Matrimandir signify without its approach, the structural movements at once embracing and offering its sphere, the rich gardens laying fields of conscious energy around it, the body of water protecting it, the parkland girding it with the earthly strength of its tall trees, the city alive as a wheel of search ever expanding from its hub of permanence and transforming power?