Matrimandir Gardens

On the Matrimandir Peace area - 2003

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-Satprem: "He says since several years the energies in Auroville have been scattered: they're egoistic, each one wants to make his own little hut, his own little trip, or at best hopes to create a super-city which will be nothing but an improvement on all the existing cities in the world. In this Auroville an axis, a centre is lacking. It lacks … a unification of consciousness around a centre, a pivot. So he was saying that in former times people built pyramids, they built cathedrals, and around this symbolic structure consciousnesses could unite, they could merge …" (Mother nods Her head). -Satprem: "… be uplifted and purified. Well, we should make an axis, a centre in Auroville, a symbolic temple of the new world we want to create, and all consciousnesses might come together in the construction of that pyramid or temple of the new world. And at the same time, it will help bring down that which is to be expressed there." "It's very good, that was the original idea: there was the centre, and the city was organized around it. Now they're doing just the opposite! They want to build the city first and then put in the centre afterwards …" -Satprem: "And that's why it isn't working, he says. He says we have to start with that, and if we don't start with that, then we won't accomplish anything." "That was my initial impression. But how to make that clear to Roger? I don't know. Because it's Roger who changed it, he wanted to start with Auromodel, that is, with trials and experiments."