The Spirit of Auroville

In connection with the Secret Chambers, The Matrimandir Newsletter No. 10 of February 1985, stated:

Secret Chambers

"This month it will be fourteen years since the construction started. So many tough, nice, beautiful, funny things, so many persons giving it a try, so many psychological processes, so many aspirations and discoveries. So many people involved in shaping the events, especially in the early years. There was Huta, the "gardienne", who shocked us one day with the story of the "secret chambers". Things were already far advanced in the formative stage when she suddenly came out with it: Mother told her often, she reported one day, that inside Matrimandir two chambers should be built, one for Herself and "one for the Supreme Lord". For the interior designing a carved marble couch was indicated, with velvet cushions for when Mother comes to withdraw and recline a while. Hearing this, we hastened to see Roger, then still in the designing process. He did not seem to know about these "secret chambers". If they would still have to come, it would be very urgent to get them somewhere into the designs, he thought, and looking at it we thought they might come in between the ribs at those ends of the Upper Chambers where there are no ramps coming up. But first he went to Mother and asked Her about it and then he put up a notice to be published around: "Mother says that these secret chambers had been envisaged in an earlier period and that they were not to be maintained in the present project."

(26.3.73)

What an uproar!