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Issue No. 307, February 2015

Discovering the oneness of the Matrimandir Garden

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Model of the Matrimandir GardenTwo years ago, in its February 2013 issue, Auroville Today reported on the manifestation of the first three gardens of the Matrimandir. The Gardens of Existence and Consciousness were ready, and work on the Garden of Bliss would be completed by the end of the year. Today, the Bliss garden is stillmoving towards completion. The other nine gardens await their manifestation; but progress on their design is being made.Marc and Meera, who together work for the Matrimandir Garden Design Office, took up the much needed task of diving deeper into the experiential reality of the rest of the gardens. Having executed together with the larger garden team the first three gardens, they still constantly faced questions like, did anybody experience ‘existence’ in the Garden of Existence, or ‘consciousness’ in the Garden of Consciousness? If people didn’t, wasn’t this due to the garden designs? “It led us to the essential need to continue diving even deeper,” says Ma...
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Issue No. 307, February 2015

  • Discovering the oneness of the Matrimandir Garden
  • Communicating for social change
  • Dancing between structure and openness
  • Community reflections on the volunteer experience
  • A volunteer’s experience
  • Volunteering at Eco-Femme
  • La Maison des Jeunes
  • Pics from the Past
  • Art Cart: connection through creativity
  • Turning 10, Tsunamika takes on a new cause
  • Letters
  • Visiting the Mahatma Gandhi Home for the Aged
  • Are volunteers milk cows?
  • The volunteers’ financial contribution

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