journal d'une transition

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As we have chosen to dedicate ourselves to the task of fulfilling Mother’s will we always have expected this to be implemented and nothing else. We have all gone through Her recorded statements and we all agree that it is very clear that She wanted a “park” surrounding the Matrimandir with the plants She named with their spiritual qualities and trees. A perimeter protecting belt of tall trees in the outer gardens was also envisaged and already partially implemented in 280 selected trees not by us but by previous Aurovilians according to Her vision. These are indispensable elements of Her vision that cannot be ignored.

It is our belief that it is not only our responsibility but that of every Aurovilian to follow faithfully Her instructions.

It was our expectation from the work of the MDSG to inform the community that this original concept of a park has been arbitrarily changed into a different one. What we have been presented with now is a lawn of grass bare of any tree together with a legalised environmental disaster of a big water body facing coffee shops and town annex offices of the surrounding buildings as it can be seen already. It is our common perception that the proposed “Management team” will only implement such an arbitrary change of concept guided by political means already active in the community. And a most important point is that any management group has to know the directions in which it is going before it can act. The major design decisions have to be made as the very first step in this process. For the gardens, lake and park in particular, the Residents Assembly has to make an informed decision in which direction to follow and then only can any management team venture to organise a detail designing and finally the work execution. Mother’s will and vision were already clearly expressed for all to see; any architectural symbolic addition will only suppress the living message She wanted to express through living beings, the plants and their flowers She was in contact with. All these last months it was not an opposition that the Matrimandir group wants to express but a will of obedience to Her will and Her living spiritual message to all of us. We therefore conclude that only an effort to implement this very point will bring harmoniously all of us to the final moments of truth and accomplishment of Her Matrimandir.

Luca”

Note: Another member of our now officially defunct but still operating team, Walter, in the same week also posted his own open letter in the internal Auroville Net. Walter had come to Auroville in the late 80s, about the time when Roger A had returned, and he had first worked, as a landscape engineer, directly under Roger A, to redefine and eventually confirm the general layout of the gardens, water body and park surrounding Matrimandir, layout which had served as our physical basis of implementation from 1972 to the present day.