Matrimandir Gardens

On the Matrimandir Peace area - 2003

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And She comments: "The step forward humanity must take IMMEDIATELY is a definitive cure of exclusivism. That's what is, in action, not only the symbol but also the effect of division and separation. They all say 'this and not that' - no. this AND that, and this too and that too, and everything at the same time. To be supple enough and wide enough for everything to be together. That's what I keep knocking myself against at present, in EVERY field - every field... in the body too. The body is used to 'this and not that; this OR that, this or that' - no. no. no: this AND that. And of course, the great Division: life and death - there you are. Everything is the effect of that. Well - words are stupid but... - overlife is life and death together. Why call it 'overlife'? We are always tempted to lean to one side: light and darkness - 'darkness', well!. Ah!, we are quite small. One feels so small..." On 10.1.70 in another conversation with Satprem, the Mother shows to him the drawings She has had made of the inside of the Matrimandir. About the outside She only says at the time that it will be "very simple" and that it will be done in white marble. To enter the Mandir, the Mother suggests that: "The underground entrance … One will enter at a dozen or so meters away from the wall, at the foot of the Urn. The Urn itself will mark where the descent begins. I must choose from which side exactly … And then, it is possible that, later on, the Urn, instead of being outside, will be WITHIN the enclosure. So perhaps we could simply put a great wall all around, and then the gardens. Between the surrounding wall and the building we are going to build now, we could have the gardens and the Urn.