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Lotus

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Then our little Huta took it into her head to have a house there, by the lake, and to have a house for me next to hers, and to offer it to me. And she wrote me all her dreams: one or two sentences suddenly stirred an old, old memory of something which had tried to manifest - a creation - when  I  was
  
very young and which had again started trying to manifest at the very beginning of the century, when I was with Theon. Then all that was forgotten. It came back with this letter; all at once, I had my plan for Auroville� �My plan is very simple.
The place is up there, on the Madras road, on top of the hill. (Mother takes a paper and begins to draw).
We have here - naturally, it is not like that in Nature, we shall have to adapt ourselves; it is like that up there on the ideal plane - here, a central point.
This central point is a park which I saw when I was very young - perhaps the most beautiful thing in the world from the point of view of physical, material Nature - a park with water and trees, like all parks, and flowers, but not many; flowers in the form of creepers, palms and ferns, all varieties of palms; water, if possible running water, and possibly a small cascade. From the practical point of view, it would be very good; at the far end, outside the park, we could build reservoirs that would be used to supply water to the residents.
So in this park, I saw the 'Pavilion of Love'.
But I dislike this word, for man has turned it into something grotesque; I am speaking of the principle of Divine Love.
But that has changed; it will be 'the Pavilion of the Mother', but not this (Mother points to Herself) - the Mother, the true Mother, the principle of the Mother. I say 'Mother' because Sri Aurobindo used that word, otherwise I would have put something else, I would have put 'creative principle' or 'principle of realization' or - I do not know� It will be a small building, not a big one, with only a meditation room downstairs, but with columns and probably a circular shape. I say probably, because I am leaving that for Roger to decide.
Upstairs, the first floor will be a room and the roof will be a covered terrace.


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