journal d'une transition

858

Proposal:

“I wish to request Auroville to become actively concerned with Matrimandir and the choices and decisions to be made regarding its completion.

My suggestion would be to call for a research team whose work would be based on a fresh approach to the problems of choice involved, who would be impartial in the sense that they would endeavour to listen to all the viewpoints and seek to identify the components of a harmonious solution, which could then be presented to the community at large. We badly need this fresh approach. In a recent proposal I made, at Matrimandir, I mentioned a team formed of women who would have had the experience of the flowing of the Mother’s Force in the physical, in the early days of Auroville; I did so because it seemed to me the closest we could get to this necessary approach: a level of resolution wherein practicality and inner sense are one; where what matters most is the flow, the active and peaceful and puissant transforming flow of Her Force, without which there can be no Matrimandir and no Auroville worth speaking about, without which there can be no individual centring, no change of condition and no new creation. I felt that these women, were they willing, would be more capable of attuning to it, responding to it and working from it. But in whatever form something must come from Auroville, as a tribute to the central and indispensable function of Matrimandir – the soul of Auroville, yes, and also the House of the Creative Principle, and the actual tool a collective venture towards a truer life needs now and will increasingly need in future. Back in 1987, this approach was lacking. It was lacking in the General Meeting of October 1987 which, supposedly, unanimously or “by consensus” chose to follow the design offered by Roger. Now, nearly two years later, we are still spell-bound in the very same situation, only worsened and grown almost habitual: absence of dialogue, entrenchment of positions, accumulated hurts and ego-reactions. And nothing has happened on the ground; nothing has materialised; there hasn’t been a single break-through. Some research work is still being pursued outside Auroville, but it has little backing. Yet the positions remain as rooted, even though a large number of individuals have dropped out. It is easy to say “oh! let them work it out”… But it is of no use. The facts are that a “decision” was taken by Auroville; that it is binding and also paralysing, since it may well be that it was either a slanted, biased and blinded, or simply immature decision. At any rate it does need to be reconsidered. The entire issue isn’t merely one of decoration. Matrimandir is one and cannot be seen in pieces and parts. It is there to generate an atmosphere, a living and conscious help, a force of creation.