Matrimandir Gardens

On the Matrimandir Peace area - 2003

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On 28.3.70 Huta wrote to the Mother expressing Her anxieties regarding the plan for the Matrimandir and the general lack of collaboration and understanding; she also mentions having heard that there would be no lake around the Matrimandir. The Mother dictated the following answer: "It has been decided and remains decided that the Matrimandir would be surrounded with water. However, water is not available just now and will be available only later, so it is decided to build the Matrimandir now and surround it with water only later, perhaps in a few years time. As regards the Matrimandir itself I have selected our plan which agrees with the vision I had of the inside and has my full approval. Therefore there is no need to worry. The Matrimandir will be built now and water brought round it later." In September 1970 the Mother wrote this message: "The Matrimandir wants to be the symbol of the Universal Mother according to Sri Aurobindo's teaching."

Early 1970 Narad and a few Aurovilians started the Matrimandir Nursery. A year later the excavation work for the foundations of the Matrimandir began. The Nursery team asked the Mother whether they should also join the work of excavation. The Mother answered: "No, the gardens are as important as the Matrimandir itself."