Darshan

"In the Material Realisation of

Matrimandir, Her Vision

Should Not Be Changed"

Roger Anger

AN INTERVIEW

I have been always reluctant to talk about my contact with the Mother. I cannot communicate that contact to others. It is psychic.

I was not visiting the Ashram for sadhana. My purpose was different. She proposed to me to collaborate in the project of Auroville, for architectural purpose; to transfer Her vision of knowledge of the city into the material field.

It is so difficult for me to achieve this even after 30 or more years — to clarify to people what Her vision is, what She communicated to me, and to implement in the physical manifestation as nearly as possible. This is difficult. It is with a strong conviction that I could explain to others. I try and am still trying.

She told me so many things and everything cannot be explained to everyone. Her vision of Matrimandir is going to be achieved without any change.

It was easy when the Mother was physically present...

In the material realisation of Matrimandir the vision should not be changed. It is not like other things where one can experiment.

We have no right to interpret Her vision. What I have to achieve after the completion of Matrimandir is to transfer as far as possible what She has communicated to me. It is my role and it is a very difficult task, even more difficult today.

Mother told me many times that the past must not compromise the future.

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When you consider Matrimandir, it is not a temple. It is the chamber of the Mother, of the Universal Mother. It is like seeing the Mother in Her room.

This has to be clearly understood by all of us, in Auroville and outside Auroville. If we compromise, the strength of Matrimandri will go out. We have to try with all our aspiration not to make it a place of curiosity and tourism.

We have to keep Matrimandir with due care and sanctity according to the vision and guidelines of the Mother.

The Craftsman of the magic stuff of self

Who labours at his high and difficult plan...

His dreamed magnificence of things to be.

A crown of the architecture of the worlds...

Savitri Book I,3

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