Matrimandir Gardens

On the Matrimandir Peace area - 2003

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Since the site for Auroville was shifted, from its initial location near the Usteri lake to the East of the main road, the Banyan tree had become the geographical center of the city-to-be; and the only grown tree providing shade on the barren eroded plateau for the villagers coming to and fro. Now its inner importance was increasing in everyone's consciousness particularly since the inauguration of Auroville had taken place near it. At the time, the Banyan tree has only one trunk and no aerial roots. On 28.6.68 after their work on "Savitri" the Mother asked Huta to sit very close to Her and meditate. Huta felt "an immense peace engulfing her whole being". When the Mother opened Her eyes, She smiled and said: "Child, do you know the Banyan tree at the center of the Mother's Shrine? Just now I saw you in my vision. You were sitting under the Banyan tree, and garlands were hanging all over you from the branches of the tree. Also the flowers were showered on you from above. You were peacefully quiet."

Huta narrates that she then went and painted the Mother's vision according to Her instructions.