Which town?

complex calculations= the totality of its weight would rest on four double, slightly inclined pillars plunging 10 meters underground.

No such, or similar, structure existed as yet anywhere = its extreme tensions and pressures would demand a very rigorous study.

A reputed firm of engineers had settled in Madras and one of the disciples was in contact with its director, who accepted to take charge of all the calculations for which they had the adequate computers and programs. On the ground, PC., both architect and engineer by training who had with his spouse conceived the first batches of ameliorated huts and directed their erection, offered to consecrate entirely to the Matrimandir. PC. would communicate with R. on this side and with the engineers on the other and transcribe the calculations and instructions into execution drawings and detailed planning of the stages of the construction and would himself direct the works with the help of a permanent team of volunteers. In this way, a harmonious solution presented itself and She gave Her full consent, summing up Her instructions thus: “solidity, safety, durability, harmonious balance…” Then, addressing PC. and everyone else through him, She added: “Each one has good reasons to defend one’s opinion and I am not an expert to judge between them. But from the spiritual point of view I know that with real goodwill all the opinions can harmonize in a truer and more comprehensive solution. It is this that I expect from the workers of Auroville, not that some should yield to others, but on the contrary that all combine their efforts to arrive to a more integral and perfect result. The ideal of Auroville demands this progress – don’t you want to do it? Blessings.” With this message, She indicated how to proceed to build Her town, in all of its domains.

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