Guiding Light of The Month

O Lord, how ardently do I call and implore Thy love! Grant that my aspiration may be intense enough to awaken the same aspiration everywhere: oh, may good- ness, justice and peace reign as supreme masters, may ignorant egoism be overcome, darkness be suddenly illu- minated by Thy pure Light; may the blind see, the deaf hear, may Thy law be proclaimed in every place and, in a constantly progressive union, in an ever more perfect harmony, may all, like one single being, stretch out their arms towards Thee to identify themselves with Thee and manifest Thee upon earth. - The Mother

Why build Matrimandir?


“In India”, the Mother said in June 1971, “the creation, that means basically the work of the Mother-Creator, has, for centuries, been considered as anti-divine. Sri Aurobindo has shown that it is in the Matter that the Divine must be manifested, he has insisted on the understanding of this concept of the Mother as Creator. Matrimandir is here to teach people that it is not by escaping from the world or ignoring it that they will realise the Divine in life. Matrimandir must be the symbol of this Truth. I don’t want it to be made into a religion; with all my force I refuse. We don’t want dogmas, principles, rituals, absolutely not, absolutely not.”

“Why, then, do we build Matrimandir?” Roger Anger asked that Mother.

“For a great majority of Indians there is no need for an explanation, they know from their background. It is for the Westerners and Americans of whom one in a million is able to feel that it is necessary.”

(Extract from 2004 calendar- Matrimandir)

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