Comments on: India’s (Jewish) Mother

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By: Mira

Mira — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 03:07:35 +0000

THE WRITER OBVIOUSLY HAS NO CLUE ABOUT THE MOTHER’S PROTECTION AND GRACE. WITHOUT A COMPLETE UNDERSTANDING OF THIS WONDERFUL MAHASHAKTI; ONE HAS TO FEEL ASHAMED OF COLLATING A BIASED PIECE.

By: Jayana Clerk

Jayana Clerk — Thu, 27 May 2010 17:02:10 +0000

What does Goldberg imply by “the touch of the miraculous” at the end of our piece? I appreciate Heehs book and his approach as well as Goldberg’s. But I wonder if she could expand “the touch of the miraculous” –the essence of Auroville and the Matrimandir. I felt the deep reosnance of the place during my visit to Pondicherry Ashram. Exposure to a mystical/spiritual place often touches the soul of a sensitive casual observer by its magic — without it the picture remains incomplete and also, I think, meaningless.

By: Yossi

Yossi — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:13:22 +0000

Exodus 20:

1 And God spoke all these words, saying:
2 “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 “You shall have no other gods before Me.
4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; 5 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

By: kaangeya

kaangeya — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:22:06 +0000

The Mother lived in Puduchery for decades and is much beloved by its denizens for a reason. The people of the fair city would be surprised if you told them that The Mother’s teachings are obscure and abstruse. Because that is not how they related to her. This is a mistake every observer and commentator makes about understanding the dharmic traditions. First reduce a person or a people to a few essential entities and then examine those entities to the death. We dharmics work very differently, we experience and then create our own lives with the guidance we obtain from other seekers and seers. Goldberg should have talked to the people who live by the seanear Auroville and asked them about their interactions with the people of Auroville. This is no closed cult.

By: Julian Lines

Julian Lines — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:07:37 +0000

For further reading, I recommend “Beyond the Human Species” (Paragon House, 1998) or “The Mother: the story of her life” by Georges Van Vrekhem.

By: Z. Levine

Z. Levine — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:43:46 +0000

Thanks to Tablet (and to the two responses!) — I would NEVER have learned of this wildly obscure subject if not for this website.

By: Jeanette Caurant

Jeanette Caurant — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:17:23 +0000

It is mentioned that “In the center of the community, both geographically and physically, is a massive spherical gold-plated structure called the Matmandir, or Temple of the Mother.”
What is not widely known is that the Mother gave Her plan for the Matrimandir with exact measurements to those responsible to build according to that plan. The Matrimandir that stands in Auroville today was NOT build according to the Mother’s specifications and therefore is not the highest expression of Sacred Architecture we could have known. For more information on this you can go to http://www.matacom.com

By: Robert E. Wilkinson

Robert E. Wilkinson — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:44:59 +0000

Goldberg writes that ‘the Mother’s teachings are almost indecipherable unless you’re willing to enter fully into her mental and symbolic world’. In this regard the Mother’s teachings follow exactly the character of the knowledge laid down in the Rig Veda. It is a knowledge of initiates which, according to Sri Aurobindo, ‘…cannot be attained either by logical reasoning or by scholastic investigation… the perfect truth of the Veda, where it is now hidden, can only be recovered by the same means by which it was originally possessed: Revelation and experience are the doors of the Spirit. This limitation, this necessity are the inexorable results of the very nature of Veda.’

The evolutionary identity of The Mother and the epochal significance of her Temple’s inner chamber are likewise a matter of revelation and gnosis. Both involve an understanding of the laws and principles governing a higher plane and a harmony between time and space, the mystery of which can only be unraveled through the knowledge of the appearance of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on earth at this particular time and no other.