Itinerary

il lumined, and each one of us can but offer one‟s little flame of aspiration, one‟s need of truth, one‟s opening to divinity.

After numerous trials – and failures – in the workshops on site, we could finally establish for each element of the model the optimal methods and materials: for the inner translucent panels of the shell, for the portholes and for the discs; the waterproofing of the entire sphere seemed to be possible only by using a kind of synthetic covering compound acting like an added skin. Meanwhile the construction of the twelve structures named “petals” all around the sphere, each one containing its own ovoid chamber of mediation bathed in one of the twelve colours of the Mother‟s symbol expressing one of Her twelve powers at work in the universe, was nearing its term. It was time to come to a clear agreement on the area, the character and the composition of the gardens and park – the inner gardens around the sphere and its petals and the outer gardens around the oval area.

How can one comprehend the intensity and the strength of the forces involved – while it is only a matter of configuration occupying but a minuscule speck of earth -, who has not been exposed to the work of Auroville?

From the start and during the first fifteen years or so, the plan for the whole area, the “Peace area” as named by Mother, was articulated in two distinct and complementary parts: the Matrimandir, the Banyan and the Amphitheatre with the twelve petals and the thirteen inner gardens, more refined and detailed,

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