Auroville's monthly news magazine since 1988

Published: September 2025 (last month) in issue Nº 434

Keywords: Matrimandir, Matrimandir Gardens, Garden of Bliss, Garden of Youth, Accessibility and Electricity

Matrimandir progress

 

The August 2025 Newsletter of the Matrimandir highlights the work done in the Garden of Bliss, where the five bowl-shaped fountains are being illuminated, and the work for manifesting the Garden of Youth is underway. Underneath this Garden, a 240 square metre underground room will house garden maintenance. Once built, it will be covered with 75 centimeters of composted soil to allow for plantation.

An electric stair-climbing wheelchair has been donated for the Matrimandir entrance staircase. This chair, and another soon to come which will climb up the curving interior staircase of the Matrimandir, will add a long missing feature to assist those who need this form of support to reach the Inner Chamber.

While new excavation and soil movement for the lake are awaiting permission from the authorities to carry the work forward, work is underway to place a new set of electric cables under the bed of the future lake which will bring in all the electricity from the solar plant, the generators, and the State electricity grid to power the activities of the Matrimandir.