Matrimandir & I : It represents the past, present and future.’ - Francisco | Auroras Eye Films

In this series we interview different Aurovilliens about their experiences with the Matrimandir in Auroville. Today it’s Francesco. *Disclaimer* This video series does not represent the voice of the Auroville community as a whole, or the filmmakers, but individual personal voices from the Auroville Citizens, including all perspectives. This Web series is a human experiment, looking into how the aurovilliens relate to the soal of Auroville, the Matrimandir. Hoping that this is the common ground for human unity. The dream would be to interview all citizens of Auroville. Auroville wants to be a universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to realise human unity. At the very centre of Auroville one finds the ’soul of the city’, the Matrimandir, situated in a large open area called ’Peace’, from where the future township will radiate outwards. The atmosphere is quiet and charged, and the area beautiful, even though work continues in the Gardens. The Matrimandir can be viewed as a large golden sphere which seems to be emerging out of the earth, symbolising the birth of a new consciousness. Since the past 50 years, Matrimandir’s slow and steady progress towards completion has been followed by many. While walking through the lovely green Matrimandir Gardens (divided into 12 individually named parks such as “Harmony“, “Bliss“, Perfection“, Progress“, “Consciousness“, etc., each with their variety of flowers, shrubs and trees, one’s attention is greatly drawn by this important and powerful feature at the heart of the city which was seen by the Mother as the “symbol of the Divine’s answer to man’s aspiration for perfection“ and as “the central cohesive force“ for the growth of Auroville. The name ’Matrimandir’ means literally ’Temple of the Mother’. According to Sri Aurobindo’s teaching, the ’Mother’ concept stands for the great evolutionary, conscious and intelligent principle of Life, the Universal Mother, - which seeks to help humanity move beyond its present limitations into the next stage of its evolutionary adventure, the supramental consciousness. #auroraseyefilms #Matrimandir #Auroville