India’s Utopia: Auroville

Matrimandir, the heart of Auroville so to say was envisioned by Alfassa as "a symbol of the Divine's answer to man's aspiration for perfection".It resembles a big sphere with twelve petals surrounding it. The largest optically perfect glass globe in the world is housed in the inner chamber, a meditation room inside the central dome.

Matrimandir the heart of Auroville (inside-indias-auroville)

Seen as a sizable golden orb that appears to be sprouting from the ground, the Matrimandir represents the birth of a new awareness.

"Auroville is a place that belongs to everyone. It belongs to all of humanity. To live in Auroville, however, one must be a willing servant of the Divine Consciousness", according to the Auroville Charter established by Mirra Alfassa, also known as 'The Mother' and the founder of Auroville.

The community places a high value on forests and takes pleasure in the transformation of the once-barren terrain.

A perfect circular road known as the "Crown" was created decades ago to circle the township, which is laid out in the shape of a galaxy with the Matrimandir at its center. The city is divided into zones by twelve lines of force that shoot out from the center.

The inauguration for Auroville was held on February 28, 1968, around a white urn that resembles a lotus bud and is currently the focal point of a sizable amphitheater. The Mother then commissioned French architect Roger Anger to begin construction on Matrimandir in January 1970. She handed him a measured sketch of the Inner Chamber that an Ashram engineer named Udar had created in accordance with her directions which she claimed to have seen repeatedly in her visions. She said that she had not seen the rest of the structure. The Mother blessed a fresh design that Roger Anger had given her in February 1971.

On a rounded island, it depicted Matrimandir. The Mandir's twelve huge 'petals' resembled a lotus's full bloom. The layout and contours of this island, which has twelve gardens, a banyan tree, an amphitheater, etc., were specified by this model. According to this model, Matrimandir Island is 10 times larger and has the same oval shape as Matrimandir's vertical section. Each of the twelve gardens was given the following names by the Mother to embark on the sanctity of the place: "Existence, Consciousness, Bliss, Light, Life, Power, Wealth, Utility, Progress, Youth, Harmony, Perfection."

The inner chamber architecture and its importance: It was discovered by chance that the Golden Section and the Great Pyramid's proportions are precisely incorporated in its cross-section 10 years after Mother initially described her vision of the Inner Chamber. Additionally, it was found that Sri Aurobindo's symbol perfectly matched the Shalagram, the shape in which Matrimandir was constructed. An antiquated symbol known as a shalagram is referred to in Hindu cosmology as "the Egg of Brahman," from which creation has erupted. In other words, the Shalagram contains two triangles that have the same dimensions as the Great Pyramid.

The King's Chamber, which is where the Great Pyramid's energy field is located, is at one-third of the structure's height. The energy field will be focused in a band of around 110 centimeters if we project this onto the two triangles inside the Shalagram. The Inner Chamber, where the people will be seated, is where this is located.

Every element of the structure has its own significance the four main pillars that carry the Inner Chamber and sustain the structure of Matrimandir have been positioned at the four cardinal points of the compass. The names of these four pillars are a reference to Sri Aurobindo's four descriptions of the Supreme Mother's four aspects. According to Sri Aurobindo's teaching, the Matrimandir aspires to represent the Universal Mother. In early 1972, she named the Matrimandir's north, south, east, and west pillars after the four "Aspects" or "Personalities" of the Supreme Mother, namely: Mahakali, Maheshwari, Mahalakshmi, and Mahasaraswati, respectively.

The Mother is far beyond all that she creates and is the mind and force of the Supreme. However, some of her methods can be observed and felt through her incarnations, particularly the goddess forms that she gives permission to her creatures to experience due to their more clearly defined and constrained actions and temperament. When you come into contact with the Conscious Force that supports the cosmos and humanity, you can become aware of three ways of being the Mother. She rises above the worlds and connects creation to the eternally unmanifest mystery of the almighty because she is transcendent, the original almighty Shakti.

Matrimandir with the blessings and guidance of the mother stands as an embodiment of enlightenment and understanding one's inner self.  To experience this one must explore the heart of Auroville. The place is lovely, and the atmosphere is calm and charged for one to instill a spiritual awakening.