Mirra Alfassa, Parisienne, half Turks en half Egyptisch zou een blijvende stempel dragen in de wereld van de spiritualiteit onder de naam De Moeder. From a very young age she spontaneously meditated and went into trance, and as a young adult she sought out and mastered the practices of Western Occultism. März 1914 kam sie zum ersten Mal nach Puducherry, wo sie Aurobindo traf. In 1943, she started a school in the ashram and in 1968 established Auroville, an experimental township dedicated to human unity and evolution. Geboorte in Parijs Mirra Alfassa werd geboren in Parijs op 21 februari 1878 uit een Turkse bankier en een Egyptische vrouw. After returning, while living in Paris, she guided a group of spiritual seekers. 1898: Mirra and Henri Morisset had a son, André. The early 1900s was a confusing time for Mirra, which became somewhat clearer after she came across two Hindu scriptures; âRaja Yogaâ and âBhagabat Gitaâ. She came to Sri Aurobindo's spiritual retreat on 29 March 1914 in Pondicherry, India. From 1959, she began to spend more and more time on her spiritual practices, slowly being immersed in it. They remained together until their divorce in 1908, meanwhile having a son called Andre, born in 1898. La Madre, Mirra Alfassa, fue su colaboradora espiritual. Mirra led an eventful life in France, ⌠Associated With. If she ever complained about something her mother would always remind her that she was born to realize the highest ideal, not to bother about small things. Aurobindo considered her to be of equal yogic stature and started calling her "the mother", and she was known to the whole community as such from then on. Shortly on 15 August 1914, they launched a journal called âAryaâ, publishing the works of Shri Aurobindo. The family had just migrated to France a year before Mirra was born. In 1915, as the First World War began to hot up, the couple was forced to leave Pondicherry, moving first to France and then to Japan. She had an elder brother, Mattéo Mathieu Maurice Alfassa, who later held numerous French governmental posts in Africa. Mirra Alfassa (1878 - 1973) was born as the second child of an Egyptian mother and a Turkish father, a few months after her parents had settled in France. She also had an older brother named Matteo. Mirra declared dual citizenship for India and France. From then on she would be present there, on darshan days where visitors below would gather around to catch a glimpse of her. Sri Aurobindo (1872 - 1950) and Mira Alfassa (1878 - 1973), later known as The Mother developed the Integral Yoga (ca. However she found that the school would gradually align to the principles of Sri Aurobindo's integral yoga. Mirra experienced many spiritual and psychic episodes between the ages of 11 to 13 that helped her realise the presence of God. Merci. However, her full potential was developed only after she visited India, where she met Shri Aurobindo, who immediately recognized her to be of equal yogic stature. Although Aurobindo had totally dispensed his activities against British rule he was considered unsafe and all the revolutionaries were asked to move to Algeria. [41] Jawaharlal Nehru visited the ashram on 16 January 1955 and met with Mirra for a few minutes. Also Known As: Blanche Rachel Mirra Alfassa, The Mother, Spiritual & Religious Leaders dissertation, entitled Death and Transformation in the Yoga of Mirra Alfassa (1878- 1973), Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram: A Jungian Hermeneutic, is a cross-cultural exploration and analysis of symbols of death and transformation found in Motherâs Mirra Alfassa (Blanche Rachel Mirra Alfassa), née le 21 février 1878 à Paris 9 et morte le 17 novembre 1973 à Pondichéry (Inde) , aussi surnommée Douce Mère ou la Mère, a pour nom d'épouse Mirra Richard. [21] By this time World War I had erupted and Indian revolutionaries were being prosecuted by the British for being spies of the German army. Aurobindo had received a few complaints against Mirra on the daily running of the ashram. She kept these experiences to herself as her mother would have regarded occult experiences as a mental problem to be treated. Divine experience with The Mother (Mirra Alfassa) of Sri Aurobindo Ashram This occurred back in 2006. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st76qojEQVI, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Divine-mother_(mirra_alfassa).jpg. She lost interest in worldly life at the age of 5. Also, from this period, she started practicing occultism, enabling her to move about in the subtle world. [22][23], On the insistence of the British in 1915, Richard was ordered to move out of Pondicherry. Early on in her spiritual journey, Alfassa was greatly influenced by Swami Vivekananda's 1896 work Raja Yoga. After her r⌠Mirra wuchs in Frankreich auf. She attending her last meeting on 20 May 1973 and gave her final darshan on 15 August 1973. Mirra Alfassa was born in Paris in 1878 to a Sephardic Jewish bourgeois family. Mirra Alfassa (21 February 1878 â 17 November 1973), also known as The Mother, was the spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo. [32] By August 1930, the ashram members had grown to a number of 80 to 100 residents, a self-sustaining community with all basic amenities fulfilled. Mirra began her academics rather late, learning to read at the age of seven. [24], Mirra and Richard stayed in Japan and made acquaintances among the Indian community. The family migrated to France the year before she was born. With time many influenced by the Arya Magazine and others who had heard about Aurobindo started to come to his residence either permanently to reside or to practise Aurobindo's yoga. She also knew that she would have to find out the truth all by herself. Her father, Moïse Maurice Alfassa, was a Turkish banker while her mother, Mathilde Ismalun, was Egyptian. 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[39] All the activities in the ashram were suspended for twelve days, after which Mirra had to decide the future course of the ashram. Paul and Mirra sailed for India on 7 March 1914, reaching Pondicherry by 29 March. Mirra had published an article titled "The Dream" in which she suggested a place on earth that no nation could claim as its sole property, for all humanity with no distinction. Tierncen, Algerie . Her teachings have been compiled in âCollected Works of The Motherâ. Gradually, as more and more people joined her and Sri Aurobindo, she organised and developed Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Mirra Alfassa was born in 1878 in Paris to Moïse Maurice Alfassa a Turkish Jewish father, and Mathilde Ismalun an Egyptian Jewish mother. Richard decided to publish a review of the yoga of Aurobindo, and to be called Arya and be bilingual in both English and French. [35] 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. Mirra Alfassa was born in 1878 in Paris to Moïse Maurice Alfassa a Turkish Jewish father, and Mathilde Ismalun an Egyptian Jewish mother. On 28 February 1968, she drew up the charter of Auroville, a proposed international city, which continues to grow even today. This request came to Mirra's brother, Mattéo Alfassa, who by then was foreign minister and who filed the request under other working files never to be looked upon again. One of them was quite dark and she later began to call him as Krishna. Thereafter, he began to withdraw from daily activities, leaving Mother in charge of the Ashram, which she continued to do till 1958. Born second of her parentsâ two children, she had an elder brother named Mattéo Mathieu Maurice Alfassa. Mirra had a profound effect on her, which developed into a close relationship in later years. [5] Her biographer Vrekhem notes that Mirra had various occult experiences in her childhood but knew nothing of their significance or relevance. Between the age of eleven and thirteen, she received instructions from several teachers in her sleep. After a few years Richard was ordered to promote French trade in Japan (which was then an ally of France and Britain) and China. The Mother (Mirra Alfassa) The Mother was born Mirra Alfassa in Paris on 21 February 1878. Her grandmother Mira introduced her to Henri Morisset, an ex-student of the Académie; they were married on 13 October 1897. [30] After 1926 Aurobindo started to retire from regular activities and put his complete focus towards yogic practises. Mirra was initially not totally accepted by the other household members and was considered an outsider. [44] She stopped all her activities from 1959 onwards to devote herself completely towards yoga. About her childhood years, she had later said, âThere was a small chair for me on which I used to sit still, engrossed in meditation. En un ambiente familiar más bien pragmático y ateo, Mirra desde muy pequeña comienza a tener diversas experiencias interiores. Her full name at birth was Blanche Rachel Mirra Alfassa. She had an elder brother, Mattéo Mathieu Maurice Alfassa, who later held numerous French governmental posts in Africa. But suddenly she felt that somebody was supporting her. [40], On 15 August 1954 French Pondicherry became a union territory of India. Mirra (or Mira) Alfassa was born in Paris in 1878, of a Turkish Jewish father, Maurice, and an Egyptian Jewish mother, Mathilde. By 1924, Mirra Alfassa was able to take control of the house, organizing regular talks and group meditations, slowly turning it into an âAshramâ. [47] Today Auroville is managed by a foundation set up by the Indian government. Some of Alfassa's paintings were accepted by the jury of Salon d'Automne and were exhibited in 1903, 1904 and 1905. Richard did not stay long in India; he spent a year traveling around North India returning to France and remarried in England after divorcing Mirra. Every night, around the age of thirteen, she began to have a unique dream, in which she rose far above in the sky, clad in a magnificent golden robe. An extraordinary child, Mirra began to contemplate at the age of four and by the age of five, she was exasperated by the ways of the world and strived for a different way of life. Belonging to a bourgeois Jewish immigrant family, she was born and brought up in France and had a unique upbringing. Elle s'appelait Mirra Alfassa mais à Pondichéry on l'appelait la Mère. During his second visit to the ashram on 29 September 1955, his daughter Indira Gandhi accompanied him. [43]. Meeting Max Théon and Alma Théon, the founders of the Cosmic Movement, also helped to some extent. On 24 November 1926, later declared as Siddhi Day (Victory Day) and still celebrated by Sri Aurobindo Ashram,[31] Mirra and Aurobindo declared that overmind consciousness had manifested directly in physical consciousness, allowing the possibility for human consciousness to be directly aware and be in the overmind consciousness[note 1]. Thereafter, she became engrossed in learning not only by reading books, but also by observing nature. On 21 February 1963, on her 85th birthday, she gave her first darshan from the terrace that had been built for her. Mirra Alfassa (París 1878 â Pondicherry 1973) De padre turco y madre egipcia, se interesó desde joven por las experiencias ocultistas, después de haber gozado de unas experiencias místicas muy profundas. I went to bed around 9:30pm and began to slightly drift off to sleep, then all of a sudden I found myself out of body standing in strange surroundings which looked much like India. 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