journal d'une transition

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She says: “ The Truth Pavilion and your tiny house will be very close to each other; your house will stand between the banyan tree and the Truth Pavilion. All these will be on an island – surrounded by water, trees and the Garden of Unity .” So now we have, even though the planned location of Auroville has changed, basically the same configuration as before, except that the island houses not only the Pavilion and its guardian house but also the banyan tree. Around the lake are still the gardens and the trees, the park of Unity. Again almost one full year later, on 28-6-1968, the Mother, after a meditation with Huta, mentions the banyan tree: “ Do you know the banyan tree at the centre of the Mother’s Shrine …?” and goes on to describe a vision She had just had of Huta seated under the tree, at peace. This small sentence refers to the Mother’s Shrine as being itself the island, with the banyan tree at its centre. In 1969 – when exactly is not documented – the Mother spoke to Narad, to whom She had given the specific charge of beginning the gardens of Matrimandir. She spoke to him in the presence of Huta, who reported part of this conversation as recorded by her: “ It must be a thing of great beauty – of such a beauty that when men enter the gardens, they will say ‘Ah! This is it!’, and experience physically, concretely, the significance of each garden. In the garden of Youth, they will know youth; in the garden of Felicity, they will know felicity; in the garden of Perfection, they will know perfection, and so on. One must know how to move from consciousness to consciousness …” It is significant that the Mother thus described emphatically the 12 gardens – the names here quoted refer to the 12 names given by Her at an earlier date (the date itself is not on record), months before the actual shape of the Matrimandir was formally and finally determined. Therefore at the time none of the studies that contributed to the elaboration of the model later presented by Roger A featuring the golden sphere, the 12 petals around it, and the 12 contours serving as bases for the 12 gardens, was made. The Mother had thus separately instructed Narad to begin work for those gardens while She had entrusted Roger A with the task of finding the most suited architecture for the Shrine itself, or rather, for the Pavilion. At the end of 1969, people in Auroville and in the Ashram started focussing more and more on the need to have the Matrimandir built as a priority. On 31-12-1969, the Mother had a long conversation with Satprem, who conveys to Her the feelings expressed by Paolo. In the course of this conversation, in which mention is several times made of the difficulty to communicate with Roger A, the Mother explains: Therefore we see once more that this central island has now grown to include the large banyan tree at its centre. .Part IV – A step closer to the birth of the Matrimandir.