Matrimandir Gardens

On the Matrimandir Peace area - 2003

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And the wall will have one entrance - one, or several, ordinary doors -: people will be able to walk around the garden. And then one should fulfill certain conditions to have the right to go down into the underground passage and come out into the temple … There must be something like an initiation, not just 'like that', no matter how. I said to Roger 'We will see in twenty years'. So that calmed him down. But the original idea was to surround it with water, to make an island so that one would have to cross the water to be able to reach the temple. It is quite possible to make an island …" On 17.1.70, Satprem brings to the Mother a proposal from Paolo for the outside of the Mandir: a large shell emerging from the ground. Satprem suggests that, in order to see the lower part of the shell, one could surround it all with water. The Mother concludes this conversation in which the shape of the sphere, or else of an egg with the wide part above, was confirmed: "You can tell them that … in fact, Roger had spoken to me - it was the same thing with different words - and I said neither 'yes' nor 'no'. I was waiting because I wanted to know how the others saw it. So now I have seen, I see that they agree. If they can come to an agreement, the work will go faster. Objections about details have no importance, because one sets out with one idea and one arrives with another … one makes a lot of progress in between. So that does not need to be discussed, it is only … Only try to put your energies together to get started more quickly, that's all!" (Mother laughs).