The Mother - Mirra Alfassa
Mirra Alfassa, later Morisset and Richard (February 21, 1878 - November 17, 1973) but better known as The Mother, was the spiritual partner of Sri Aurobindo and a prominent Hindu Yogin. She was born in Paris to Turkish and Egyptian parents and came to his retreat on March 29, 1914 in Pondicherry to collaborate on editing the Arya...
Difficulties facing the biographer
There are a number of different narratives interwoven in Alfassa'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. [1]; the first Westerner to become an Indian guru [2]
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 works, in her correspondence and talks with disciples, and in several Ashram publications [3]. These have been gathered in compilations by devotees, and the compilations and the original material also serve as reference for several on-line biographies.
A second problem is that many of the experiences related by the Mother and Sri Aurobindo to their disciples do not sit well with the secular Western mind, and hence cannot be easily presented without seeming incredible or fantastic. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There are a number of different narratives interwoven in Alfassa'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. [1]; the first Westerner to become an Indian guru [2]
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 works, in her correspondence and talks with disciples, and in several Ashram publications [3]. These have been gathered in compilations by devotees, and the compilations and the original material also serve as reference for several on-line biographies.
A second problem is that many of the experiences related by the Mother and Sri Aurobindo to their disciples do not sit well with the secular Western mind, and hence cannot be easily presented without seeming incredible or fantastic. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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