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          This split was indeed felt throughout the world. It is most clearly recognisable in the occident where orthodox religions finally made a dogma of the split and Spirit and Matter became forever stark opposites in the binary creation of the mental human being, whose sustenance is this pole of tension engendered by the split. The material world of time and space was not known as ‘illusion’ in the West but evil, and a downright Hell. It became a prison, a place where sinners could find a springboard to heaven after death if they were fortunate enough to recognise the one Saviour, and only that one, who could lead them out of their misery. However he managed it, the mental human being could not reconcile these opposites because of his binary affliction.
          India somehow survived the devastation simply because nothing was organised, no orthodox religion, no pope, no Imam, and above all, no dogma. The yogic realiser was free to pursue his or her preference, even when the predominant influence was the way of Advaita and Mayavada. There was, however, a price to pay: India lost her hold over the material plane that, in the language of Number, is 9, and that, according to the Mother’s designation, is defined as creation in matter. Having abdicated, having opted for otherworldliness as the goal, all else was undermined. As a result, down the centuries with the corrosion that set in, from within, India suffered invasion upon invasion, conquests, colonisations, humiliations, desecration of her most sacred treasures; and finally, every illness we see around us today. At the root of it all was the loss of the Divine Measure several thousand years ago with all its repercussions thereafter.
          This was what the Mother set about to rectify in her ‘act of measuring’. This she DID accomplish in spite of the recalcitrant ignorance and the bad will she encountered during that infamous 18-day struggle to establish that Measure at the heart of her temple. 

          The supramental task at hand involving the temple can be described geometrically by the ancient symbol of the Sun, a circle with a central point, thus: . After the split, when science was divested of the sacred (as a correlation to the yogic split), that astrological symbol was incorporated by astronomy. To this day it remains in use.
          The Sun is considered by Sri Aurobindo to be a symbol of the supramental Gnosis. We shall see in what way this particular symbolism takes shape in the inner chamber. These Chronicles will progressively demonstrate how this simple geometric form holds the key to the entire body of Knowledge captured in the Mother’s plan. But it is not enough to describe the elegant simplicity of the geometry involved. When the Supermind is made manifest all the Knowledge has to be applied today. In other words, it must be rendered dynamic.
          The Sun’s astrological symbol indicates the One (Point) and the Many (Circle). It also offers the geometric understanding of the Mother’s mission as Divine Maya and the purpose of her ‘act of measuring’. For the inner chamber is the Point; the outer Shalagrama shape is the Circle. This simple correlation describes certain specific boundaries. Her sacrosanct domain was the Inner Chamber (‘I saw only the inside…’); the outer shape was to be the contribution of the collectivity. She did not impinge upon their domain, - but the collectivity had no respect for hers.
          We must not lose sight of the fact that though the Shalagrama was the responsibility of the group (in this case represented by the architect), its measure was nonetheless established by the Divine Maya. Two key elements were given by her to grant legitimacy – or a Divine Sanction, if you will – to the outer shape.

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