journal d'une transition

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But for many months not only the work on the structure around the Chamber is at a standstill, but it has also stopped in the Gardens, and a growing inertia has settled all around. The human energies are not well channelled; there is imbalance in the work; even inside the Chamber the work is only proceeding half-days, while outside of it hardly anything happens. Some say that there is, based at Matrimandir, a nucleus of resistance to the design accepted by all; others say that, having refused all dialogue and rejected all objections raised (which cannot have all been irrelevant) an “official” plan has been bulldozed on Matrimandir, whose principal protagonist, Roger A, is in Auroville only 2 months out of 12 after an absence of 10 years or so, whose team has more or less collapsed but for a few steadfast supporters who themselves are unable to solve even its most basic technical inconsistencies. But it could be that in such a status quo one is no longer able to perceive the elements of a wholesome harmony which may lie on all sides, and therefore that an active, revealing and resolving movement can no longer occur. Would it take too much of our pride to acknowledge that some commitment and concern, some active meditation, some courage may have to be contributed on our part before such a choice or decision can be truly made AND have a creative effect on the work ahead of us? Everyone will recall that one of the constant traits of Mother’s physical guidance was to insist on agreement: genuine agreement rising out of everyone – not being forced by some on the others. She used to say that we must first reach this agreement, and the rest She will do. Will it hang inside the skeleton of a sphere in the midst of an overgrown , neglected terrain of mud and dust, with a few crops drying in the sun and patches of luxuriant grass and some decrepit keet structures and the buses of tourists plying to and fro, “is this a water-tank?”, “what is your native place?”…? I request everyone in Auroville and particularly, I maintain, those of us who had the opportunity to experience Her physical Presence and, being women, may have developed an ability to attune to Her Force in life and in matter (are they all asleep now, have they ceased to care?) to come forward and, as a team, to set an atmosphere that will allow for the right choices to be discerned and the right decisions to be made. As a team they could commit to this task for a given period of time and work out the ways they would proceed. Perhaps as a first step they could interview the different people concerned and listen to their views, consult model and drawings and ask questions, and take the time to reach a living awareness of the entire physical reality of Matrimandir as of its functions, present and future. Roger has himself repeatedly told the community “you have to decide”! She described in detail the Chamber She had seen. And this became the centre of the work of building Matrimandir. It will be ready perhaps in some months.