The sun ray in the Matrimandir inner chamber is off-centre

John Harper is one of the executives of the Matrimandir and published this blog as a personal view.

Sitting in the Inner Chamber this morning I watched the sunray slide across the marble of the Mother’s symbol until it gently touched the white carpet of the Chamber floor.

Of course, the Ray should have been centred on the Globe, not sliding around on the Mother’s symbol.   (We are looking for the mechanical or digital cause of this problem, manifesting for about two weeks now, but to no avail so far.)

I thought of my old friend Ruud Lohman. He was always probing the symbolism of Matrimandir, in all its dimensions.  Ruud, long gone, would have surely had a lot to say about this recent destabilisation of the Sun Ray.

Clearly, something is amiss.

Perhaps it is reflecting the difficulties and agitation flooding Auroville for many months.

Until recently, a few months perhaps, this stir had not come to touch, visibly, the centre of Auroville. The daily works proceeded quietly, steadily, its gardens always offering a silent evening haven for all.

But recently, with the growing focus on the execution of lake section 2, the energetic swirl of Auroville at large has finally touched the Centre.  Perhaps the Centre has silently called it to come close, to embrace and to solve it?

Some say that the conflict in Auroville is between forces that want to build and forces that want to block the growth of the city.  Forces that want to block Auroville’s physical manifestation.

My take, rather, is that the opposition is coming from forces that want to block the development of the Auroville Spirit, to prevent the growth of the true Auroville consciousness.

After all, what will be the use of building rapidly a city of concrete and glass? Will that shell then wait for some new, fresh generation of Aurovilians to come and inhabit it, to fill it with the true spirit?

Both are needed now: the physical growth of the city and the growth too, and more urgently, the growth of the true consciousness of Auroville.

Look at the world around:  does it need a new city to be built?  Even a new green city with all the latest adaptations to the climate crisis will only be one more green city among many now under incubation.

No. Auroville has to be the city the earth needs… the city with a Soul… with a living consciousness of unity.   This is the challenge of today.

It is difficult, yes… we each have our position, our conviction of being the holder of the true point of view…. but, as the Mother encouraged us to do so many years ago, we have to strive to act from a true synthesis of views.

Reaching this truer synthesis (we will not reach the pinnacle of truth right away, of course, but we can make some first faltering steps) we will send out into the world a tiny, but very powerful vibration of the Auroville spirit... and it will find its way.

It is challenging, even frightening, to let go of our mental/ vital positions… it is an exploration into unknown territory…

To let ourselves be led by That... to be led by quiet indications coming from a higher, truer source.

But it is something urgent now, totally urgent, - for ourselves, and perhaps for the world.

Achieving this, I am sure that the Ray in the Inner Chamber will return to its centre.