Matrimandir - The soul of the city!

You have to check this out...weather you meditate or not!


Matrimandir, Auroville

If I had to choose one word to describe this place...Stunning!

If I had to choose two words to describe this place...Fucking Amazing!

This is really the heart of Auroville or as they say on the web, the soul of Auroville. We visited there today and were able to go in to the inner chamber of this sphere. What was so amazing, is the fact that the vision, created by the mother in the late 60's was only completed in 2008 with works in the garden continuing still as part of the 'Mothers' vision.

Using the words, Mother, Vision, Meditate would almost make this place sound like a temple...So NOT! Thats what I think was so amazing! I've been in India for a wee while now (3 months), so it was imperative to the success of my visit today that this place need not be another temple. No disrespect to religious houses, shrines and temples everywhere, but after a while you develop the attitude..."you've seen 20, you've seen them all".

The purpose of the Matrimandir is not worship or praise a higher source, it is to improves ones focus and concentration. How cool is that!...

When you enter, after a lengthy intro and procedure to familiarise everyone with what needs to happen upon entering, you enter this room like you would never believe. My first impression was how the hell could a vision from the 60's envision something of this calibre. Its so state of the art its, like I said, Fucking amazing. Words and analogies that come to mind, George Jetson, The future, Space age. Yet nothing like it! One would have to see for themselves what goes on inside, and unfortunately no cameras allowed.

The carpet and walls are white, so you are asked to put on white socks that they provide, the are ramps that wrap and incline around the inside, bring you to the top of sphere, where you enter a room filled with pillars. In the centre of the room is the most amazing sphere placed upon a gold stand that filters light from the very apex of the sphere right through the sphere in the meditation room all the way out of the sphere.....

omg....will have to re-write this description as Im struggling to find the words to describe it. My bad...