Amazon Quiz: This structure is known as the ___ of the City in Auroville. Fill in the blanks
Options:
Heart
Arms
Brain
Soul
Answer: Soul
The ‘soul of the city’ can be found at the very center of Auroville, which is also known as the MAtrimandir. It is situated in a large open area called ‘Peace’, from where the future township radiates out. The area is a beautiful one and the atmosphere feels quiet and charged.
The Matrimandir can be viewed as a large golden sphere seemingly emerging out of the earth. It is said to symbolize the birth of a new consciousness.
The Matrimandir Gardens is divided into 12 individually named parks such as “Harmony”, “Bliss”, Perfection”, Progress”, “Consciousness”, etc. A walk through its green expanse lets one enjoy a variety of flowers, shrubs, and trees. At the heart of the city, the Mother is situated, which is seen as the “symbol of the Divine’s answer to man’s aspiration for perfection” and as “the central cohesive force” for the growth of Auroville.
The name ‘Matrimandir’ means literally ‘Temple of the Mother’. According to Sri Aurobindo’s teaching, the ‘Mother’ concept stands for the great evolutionary, conscious and intelligent principle of Life, the Universal Mother.
“The Mother is the consciousness and force of the Supreme and far above all she creates. But something of her ways can be seen and felt through her embodiments and the more seizable because more defined and limited temperament and action of the goddess forms in whom she consents to be manifest to her creatures,” Sri Aurobindo said.
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