About:
Name:
Mirra Alfassa (The Mother)
Date & Place of Birth:
February 21, 1878 – Paris, France.
Date & Place of Death:
November 17, 1973 – Pondicherry, India.
Activity / Profession / Trait / Objective:
Spiritualism
Nationality:
Indian
Introduction:
She was the spiritual collaborator of Sri
Aurobindo.
History & Achievements
She is also known as The Mother.
She came to Sri Aurobindo's spiritual retreat on 29
March 1914 in Pondicherry, India.
She had to leave Pondicherry during World War I,
and spent most of her time in Japan where she met the Nobel laureate
Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore.
Finally she returned to Pondicherry and settled
there in 1920.
After 24 November 1926, when Sri Aurobindo retired
into seclusion, she founded his ashram (Sri Aurobindo Ashram), with a
handful of disciples.
She became the spiritual guide of the community.
Her experiences of the last thirty years of her
life were captured in the 13-volume work
‘The Agenda’ .
She attempted the physical transformation of her
body in order to become a new type of human individual by opening to the
Supramental Truth Consciousness, a new power of spirit allegedly
discovered by Sri Aurobindo.
Sri Aurobindo considered her an incarnation of the
Mother Divine and called her 'The Mother'.
Around 1904 she encountered in her dreams a dark
Asiatic figure whom she called ‘Krishna’.
In 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.
She had a dream to create a place where humanity
could seek the Divine without having to dredge for food and shelter, and
where "normal people" from all over the world could live together in
harmony, a place where people can seek spirituality and bring it into
the world. She named this place Auroville or City of Dawn. Presently it
now has a population of more than 2,300 people.
In 1968, 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.
Accolades, Awards, Honours and Recognitions
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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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirra_Alfassa
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