Mirra Alfassa (later Morisset and Richard), known as The Mother (February 21, 1878 - November 17, 1973), was the spiritual partner of the sage and seer Sri Aurobindo. She was born in Paris to Turkish and Egyptian parents and came to his ashram on March 29, 1914 visiting Pondicherry several times and finally settling there in 1920. After November 24, 1926, when Sri Aurobindo retired into seclusion, she supervised the organization of his ashram and institutes. She became the leader of the community after ...

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On the 24 November 1926 (Siddhi Day) Sri Aurobindo reported himself to have had an important experience in which he realised the Overmental plane and brought down to Earth, in his words, the Overmental Krishna (Das 1978 p.233). This was also the official founding of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. At the time there no more than 24 disciples in the Ashram (ibid pp.233-4). In December of that year, Sri Aurobindo decided to withdraw from public view. It was at this point that he identified Mirra with the Divine Mother, and instru ...

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''All life is yoga,'' said Sri Aurobindo, referring to the work done not for the satisfaction of one's desires or ego but as an offering to the Divine, which is actually a powerful means of yoga.

This is how the Mother explains the profundity of Sri Aurobindo's vision: ''There is an ascending evolution in nature which goes from the stone to the plant, from the plant to the animal, from the animal to man. Because man is, for the moment, the last rung at the summit of the ascending evolution, he considers himself as the final stage in this ascension and believes there can be nothing on earth superior to him. In that he is mistaken…."

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A person's mother-in-law is the mother of his or her spouse. A person is a son-in-law or daughter-in-law to the mother-in-law. She and the father-in-law are the parents of the spouse and in a nuclear family of his or her sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law. They all together are the in-laws. In comedies, the mother-in-law is shown as the bane of the husband, who is married to the mother-in-law's daughter. Mothers-in-law are often stereotyped in mother-in-law jokes. Some Australian Aboriginal languages have s ...

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The Earth Mother is a motif that appears in many mythologies. The Earth Mother is a fertile goddess embodying the fertile earth itself and typically the mother of other deities, and so are also seen as patronesses of motherhood. This is generally thought of as being because the earth was seen as being the mother from which all life sprang. In Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and related books, the character Galadriel has many attributes of the Earth Mother. Examples of Earth Mothers include: Brigid Demeter Freya Frigg Gaia Ishtar Isis

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Books: Life Divine, Synthesis of Yoga, Savitri, The Mother, Letters, Agenda Teachings: Involution, Evolution Integral yoga, Triple transformation Physical, Vital, Mental, Psychic, Spirit Overmind, Supermind Sacred Structures: Matrimandir Communities: Sri Aur ...

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The Mother, The Mother - Difficulties facing the biographer, The Mother - Early Life, The Mother - Meeting Sri Aurobindo, The Mother - The Mother of the Ashram, The Mother - The Physical Transformation, The Mother - Auroville, The Mother - Important Disciples, The Mother - The Mother - Quotes, The Mother - Partial bibliography

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The Great Mother manifests itself in myth as a host of archaic images. Commonly conceived of as a nature goddess, the recurrent theme of nature and motherly care go hand in hand. As the prominent feature of many early Indo-European societies, the mother archetype manifests itself in a host of deities and symbolism (independent and therein). The most defined occurrence of a mother goddess is with the Celts, and their predecessors. The goddess Danu was an archaic character and was the namesake for the Celtic pantheon of gods, the ...

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A mother goddess is a goddess portrayed as the Earth Mother who serves as a general fertility deity, the bountiful embodiment of the earth. From the elegant snake-offering goddess figures of Knossos to the rock-cut images of Cybele, to Dione ("the Goddess") who was invoked at Dodona, along with Zeus, until late Classical times, it is sometimes too facile to class all archaic female goddesses as manifestations of the mother goddess. Archaeologists tend to avoid such theories in interpreting sites and material remains and sometim ...

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Universal Mother is the fourth album by Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor. Universal Mother - Track listing. "Germaine" (vocal excerpt from a speech of Germaine Greer) 0:38 "Fire on Babylon" O'Connor, Reynolds 5:11 "John I Love You" Coulter, O'Connor 5:31 "My Darling Child" Coulter, O'Connor 3:09 "Am I a Human?" Jake Reynolds 0:24 "Red Football" Coulter, O'Connor 2:48 "All Apologies" Kurt Cobain 2:37 "A Perfect Indian" Coulter, ...

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Mother Nature is a mythical personification of nature. Images of women representing "mother" earth, and mother nature, are timeless. Long before history was recorded, goddesses were worshipped for their association with fertility, fecundity, and agricultural bounty. Priestesses held dominion over Incan, Assyrian, Babylonian, Slavonic, Roman, Greek, Indo-European, and Iroquoian fertility cults in the millenn ...

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Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta, OM (August 27, 1910 – September 5, 1997) was an Indian Catholic nun of Albanian origin who founded the Missionaries of Charity. Her work among the poverty-stricken of Kolkata (Calcutta) made her one of the world's most famous people, and it is widely thought that she will be canonized shortly. Teresa was awarded the Templeton Prize in 1973, the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, and India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna in 1980. She was made an Honorary Citizen of the United States in 199 ...

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Mother Earth may refer to: Mother Earth is a common metaphorical expression for the Earth and its biosphere as the giver and sustainer of life. Mother Earth was also one of Slavic deities. In many Neo-Pagan and Wiccan traditions, Mother Earth is seen as the Goddess, with the Horned God as her consort (and sometimes son). The idea of the Earth as a deity was and is also prominent in many pagan religions. Mother Earth is also the title of a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov ...

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Bachelor Mother (Garson Kanin; US, 1939) is a comedy film starring Ginger Rogers (in a non-dancing, non-singing role), David Niven and Charles Coburn. The screenplay was written by Norman Krasna based on a story by Felix Jackson (aka Felix Joachimson). With a plot full of mistaken identities, Bachelor Mother is a light-hearted treatment of the otherwise serious issues of child abandonment and poverty. Seen from an early 21st century point of view, it is also a reminder of the change in social mores wh ...

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MOTHER: one of the aspects of the Triple Goddess, in this aspect She rules from Beltane to Lughnasadh.

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MOTHER: The aspect of the Goddess representing motherhood, mid-life, and fertility. She is represented by the full moon, the egg, the colors red and green. Her Sabbats are Midsummer and Lughnasadh.

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Mother Space, Mother Water Names for Deva-matri, the cosmic matrix, Aditi, the Boundless, the Great Sea, the watery or feminine principle as contrasted with the fiery or masculine.

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Mother Goose is the name given to an archetypical countrywoman, who is supposedly the originator of the Mother Goose stories and rhymes. Yet no specific writer has ever been identified with such a name, and the first known mention of which appears in an aside in a versified chronicle of weekly happenings, that appeared regularly for several years, Jean Loret's La Muse Historique (in 1660): comme un c ...

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The Contes de ma mère l'Oye (Mother Goose Tales), edited in 1697 by French author Charles Perrault, is made of eight tales: La Belle au bois dormant (The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood) Le Petit Chaperon rouge (Little Red Riding Hood) Barbe Bleue (Bluebeard) Le Chat botté (The Master Cat; or, Puss in Boots) Les Fées (The Fairies) Cendrillon (Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper) Riquet à la houppe (Ricky of the Tuft) ...

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GREAT MOTHER - mother with exaggerated breasts and hip, who gives birth to and nourishes all beings; often represented in art and design holding a child in her lap. (NAD)

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