The Mother - Difficulties facing the biographer

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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There are a number of different narratives interwoven in Mirra's life, most dramatically the transformation of a girl from a non-religious family in France into a woman worshipped by thousands in India as an incarnation of the Divine Mother (The Hindu 2001); the first Westerner to become an Indian guru (Rawlinson 1997). Mirra/The Mother herself did not care for biographies of her life, and never wrote a comprehensive or systematic account of her life. However a lot of biographical information is found scattered through her work ...

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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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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 Mother could not be said to have successors (although sometimes there have been such claims). But following the Mother's passing, a number of prominent followers each developed quite different teachings and approaches. Ruud Lohman, a Dutch theologian who came to Auroville in 1971, developed a theology regarding the symbolism of the Matrimandir, according to which the Matrimandir is the Mother's body, the four pillars representing the four aspects of the Divine Mother (Mahakali, Mahalakshmi, Mahasraswati and Maheshwari) as describe ...

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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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In the 1960s, it was The Mother’s dream to create a place where humanity could seek the Divine without having to dredge for food and shelter. It was in fulfillment of this dream that she was instrumental in the development of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram for those who dedicated themselves to yoga, of personal and spiritual transformation. She named this place Auroville or — city of dawn —. The Mother had conceived several years previously an original grand scheme for Auroville. In the mid 60s she received a letter from a disciple who had a vision which rekindled The Mother's interest in the project. She then embarked on a m ...

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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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Sri Aurobindo remained in "material and spiritual correspondence" with the Richards for the next four years (Das 1978, p.121) . On 7 March 1914, Mirra and Paul Richard embarked for India aboard the steamer Kaga Maru, reaching Pondicherry on the 29th. However, She related later that when saw Sri Aurobindo for the first time, she recognized him as the person she saw in her visions of a dark Asiatic figure, whom she had referred to as "Krishna". The next day she noted in her journal, “It does not matter that thousands of beings are plunged in darkness. He whom we saw yesterday is on earth. His presence is enoug ...

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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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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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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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Sri Aurobindo said that in the Mother he found surrender to the Divine down to physical body itself, the cells of the body (not merely the mind and emotions), the likes of which could not be found in any human being. In 1950 he felt it was time to leave his physical body so he could work at the non-physical level, where he believed he could become more effective (Karmayogi no date). The Mother related that Sri Aurobindo gathered in his body a great amount of supramental force and as soon as he left his body. She was standing beside hi ...

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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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