Auroville Beloved: Matrimandir Within

O build in us a temple of the soul

With gilded panes to catch the fires of dawn

Where no duality longing could survive

The swift embrace of night by ecstasied morn.

In a secret room behind the body's walls

Install a crystal sphere reflecting Thee

For all within our yearning being calls

Thy descent into the waiting sanctuary.

In emerald canopies and scented groves

Where the sun-bright Rishis meditate

And change the course of destiny by prayer

The acolytes of the future congregate.

All these stages on the rising stair

That joins our lives by a single golden tie,

A unitary vision and embrace

From silence to the spheres of harmony.

Surrounded by gardens reflected in pools of blue

On laden boughs the blossoming messengers sigh

And yield their perfumed splendour to the hours

An aspiration soaring to the sky.

No heavens above could lay such wondrous claim

As this setting on the conscious soil of earth,

A treasure realm transformed by sudden grace,

Harmony's cradle rocking a new world's birth.

And world-creating splendours shall arise

Reflecting the heavenly beauty of Her eyes;

Her godly gifts She gladly does impart

To all who build Her Mandir in the heart.