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The migratory flux towards the cities intensified.

And everywhere, irresistibly, one pollution or another came to vitiate, gnaw at, alter, weaken and poison earthly nature.

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One of the fiscal policies of the Indian Government, meant to encourage direct contributions to social and public welfare, is to exempt from income- tax all donations made to enterprises, projects or organized actions deemed to be of public interest ; therefore it was now possible for eventual donors to contribute more substantially to the funding of the Matrimandir. For instance M., who had never forgotten his promise made at Her feet on one of the last few occasions he had knelt before Her to see to the financing of Her temple, could now resume and redouble his effort. For the work had now entered a very different phase = this was another scale of expenditures, another energetic atmosphere, demanding another sort of attention, concentration, management and coordination and a more consequent organization comprising several teams. It was generally understood that the inner Chamber would be ready well before the exterior and the immediate environment : under PC.’s direction, the realization of this incomparable space as faithful to the vision She had had of it and as exact and perfect as possible. Several distinct operations must be executed with the greatest precision = the laying of the large sparkling white Carrara marble slabs on the twelve vertical sections of the inner wall; the finishing of the twelve columns in the workshop their lifting to destination with the aid of the crane attached to the top of the sphere and their anchoring on the floor holds; the paving of the floor itself with milky white marble from Rajasthan and the laying of the great symbol of the divine Mother in its middle, upon which would then be placed the four golden standing symbols of the supramental manifestation

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