| Name
/ Title |
MIRRA ALFASSA (The
Mother) |
| Date of
Birth |
February 21, 1878 – Paris, France. |
| Date of
Death |
November 17, 1973 – Pondicherry, India. |
| Identity |
Spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo. |
|
Date-wise Events / Works |
- October 13, 1897: She got
married.
- 1904: Around this time she
encountered in her dreams a dark Asiatic figure whom she
called ‘Krishna’.
- March 29, 1914: She came to
Sri Aurobindo's spiritual retreat on this day in
Pondicherry, now Puducherry, India.
- August 15, 1914: She along
with her husband first published a journal called 'Arya'
focussing on review on Yoga of Sri Aurobindo on this day; it
ran for the next over six years.
- February 22, 1915: At the
behest of the British authorities, she and her husband had
to leave Pondicherry on this day and they left for Paris.
- April 24, 1920: She came to
Pondicherry, now Puducherry, again and this time
settled here itself.
- November 24, 1926: After
this day (later declared as Siddhi Day), when Sri Aurobindo
retired into seclusion, she founded his Ashram, Sri
Aurobindo Ashram.
- 1938: Margaret Woodrow
Wilson, the daughter of US President Woodrow Wilson, came to
the Ashram and chose to remain there for the rest of her
life.
- December 02, 1943: She
started a school for about twenty children inside ashram,
which later came to be known as Sri Aurobindo International
Centre of Education.
- 1968: The Mother formally
inaugurated the new city, and the soil of 124 nations (all
the independent countries in the world at that time) was
placed in a lotus-shape urn at the centre of the future
city.
|
| General |
- She is also known as The Mother.
- Her experiences of the last thirty years of her life
were captured in the 13-volume work ‘The Agenda’.
- Sri Aurobindo considered her an incarnation of the
Mother Divine and called her 'The Mother'.
- The "Soul of Auroville" is the "Mother's temple",
constructed as a futuristic-looking sphere that houses in
its center a Chamber, all white with a transculent globe at
the centre lit by single ray of sunlight. This signifies
"future realisation".
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