journal d'une transition

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It seems to me that the highest source of inspiration lies in the Mother alone, and that we are in dire need, at all levels and in all directions, of this sense of evidence and timelessness that can only be experienced when we are open to her and are moved by Her in Her ways. The whole history of this present Auroville began with Her relating Her vision of a Park, sheltering Her Pavilion. This, to me as to many others, is a central key to the vibrancy of that collective existence, the beginnings of which the Mother has sought to create here. It cannot be dismissed as mere historical fact. She is ahead of us all, immeasurably. Her voice is not of the past; it is waiting. And, just as in the late 70s those present at the Matrimandir came to the decision that the columns would be erected in the Inner Room, whether the “chief architect” agreed to it or not, simply because She had seen them, just in the same spirit of affirming Her dream and the Law of Her wish, I believe completely that it is time for us all to say: the Park and the Gardens of the Matrimandir will be created, simply because She has seen them.

And this must be done with the “Chief Architect”’s collaboration.

This is all I have to say for now – I do have a lot more to say on other aspects of the Matrimandir’s “role”, another time.

But I ask, please everybody, look at the real issues, reflect upon them; do not allow these farcical vendettas to continue in Auroville, do not allow, in the name of goodwill and harmony, the reduction of Her dream to another pitiful saga of power. There must be, there is, a way to stand FOR a deep, vast, sure, central vision, for its realisation in matter, that does not end in standing against whoever seeks to limit it.

At the service of Truth,

Divakar”

Note: This letter was posted on the internal Auroville net. The following week, it appeared in print in the Auroville News. Along with it, two other open letters also appeared: one by JYl and one by Luca; I enter both here, as they expressed complementary positions.

*”Matrimandir: what is at stake?” by Jean Yves:

“A current opinion about the divergences and conflicts around Matrimandir is that it has no deep significance: it is only egos battling for supremacy. This is a very lazy thought, if a thought at all; it is rather a way not to look at what is at stake. For others, what is at stake is simple and obvious: the truth of a vision is prevented to manifest physically by the obstruction of the ignorance or the bad will of those who have taken responsibility on the site, and who are then credited with the