Matrimandir Gardens

On the Matrimandir Peace area - 2003

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(Mother refers to desalination of seawater.) -Satprem: "There's not enough water?"

"There's water, but just enough for one or two houses; in short there isn't enough water to create a permanent stream. They would have to convert seawater. In Israel they have found a way to do it economically - we even have brochures about it -, but you understand, 'economical' for a city, not for an individual! And so we have to get water in order to make this islet, that's the difficulty."

-Satprem: "But before building the islet, we can already start building the 'temple' itself … One has to begin by picking up a stone." "Yes, we could do that." -Satprem: "That's what is important, that people pick up the first stone with their hands and then set it down, and that they unite in so doing - because they will never come together through their little huts and their little stories." "Yes, that would be a lot better." -Satprem: "Oh yes, of course!" "Obviously, logically, or rather psychologically, it's an error to build the outside first and the centre afterwards."