Auroville Matrimandir differs from The Mother's original vision

Re: After 40 yrs, Auroville still going strong by ned on Fri 14 Mar 2008 01:39 PM PDT Profile Permanent Link
Was the Mother really Sri Aurobindo's "disciple"? I think maybe in the very very initial stages she might have been, but otherwise I think he always saw her as his equal and his spiritual co-worker.

Re: Auroville's Landmark 40th Anniversary Celebrations by Lori Tompkins on Fri 14 Mar 2008 06:36 PM PDT Profile Permanent Link
Karan Singh's statement, 'The completion of Matrimandir marked the conversion of the Mother’s vision into a reality,' reads to me like fiction, or like a complete washing over of evidence to the fact that the Mother's vision was not respected and not '[converted] into a reality'. Why claim the Mother's vision was realized when so much of her vision (including the diameter of the inner chamber) was changed by the architects who took control of the project?

Anyway, I wonder how Auroville can truly expect to prosper while washing over the failures made in carrying out the Mother's actual vision for the Inner Chamber of the Matrimandir. Details of how the Auroville Matrimandir differs from the Mother's original vision can be found at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives in Pondicherry, in The New Way, Vols. 1 & 2 and online at www.matacom.com