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It is said that nothing can be done at this point since the
shadow-temple is finished and cement and steel now stand in the way
of any rectification. This solidity now renders meaningless even
any exposure, it is claimed.
We
state emphatically that the divine Word, the Shruti, is greater
and more powerful than cement and steel. It alone will live on while
the shadow-temple fades into oblivion, having been rendered irrelevant
by the activities of this Committee. For to quote the Mother,
‘…these are the things men do; they do it more or less
well, and then it lives, and then it dies, and then it changes, and
then it becomes deformed, and then… - everything they have done. It is
not worth it… I LOOK…isn’t it so? Someone gives me a paper as you have
just done when you gave me that drawing [the architect’s revisions]; I
look in this way and I see very well what in that paper is the result
of something from above and what has become mixed and what is… Like
that. But one is not going to say it! To begin with, they would not
believe me.’ (Ibid)
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We,
founders of the Matrimandir Action Committee, set our agenda to
be:
1)
To expose the falsehood
surrounding the constructed Matrimandir in that it is being passed
off as ‘the Mother’s original’; to reveal the discrepancies between
that true original and what has been constructed at Auroville.
2)
To expose the campaign of
deception that the builders and presiding authorities of Auroville
have been engaging in for the past 30 years to cover up the fact
that what has been constructed is entirely the architects’ revised
version.
3)
To ensure that the Sri
Aurobindo Ashram Trust substantiates this true position, since it
has the duty to preserve the Mother’s estate, and that records in
the Ashram Archives include the complete history by way of original
tapes, plans, etc., as well as the material the Matrimandir
Action
Committee will place at the Trust’s disposal for posterity, which
will prove the conspiracy to deceive on the part of those in charge
over the years and their refusal to listen to those qualified to
give an opinion in these matters.
4)
To highlight by articles,
books, websites through the electronic media, and all other means of
diffusion, the value of the Mother’s vision and the place it holds
in Sri Aurobindo’s work as the most valuable legacy the Mother has
left to humanity, comparable in importance to Sri Aurobindo’s
Savitri. And in the process to expose through these media the
truth about the architects’ revised version.
We, of Matrimandir Action Committee in India and
throughout the world, will hold responsible and take to task anyone
from 1970 to the present who has been instrumental in what has happened
to the Mother’s yogic vision. This includes the Government of India
that now owns Auroville, the Ministry for Human Resources Development
and the Department of Education; the Governing bodies of Auroville with
their presiding officials and appointed members; the architects and
builders. They are all accountable to the people since they have been
and continue to be party to the disfigurement and the deception
involving the Mother’s sacred inspired Word, the divine Shruti of a new
vedi.
Signed this day, 17 January 2003, at Skambha
by the Founding Members
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