PUDUCHERRY: Thousands of people from across the country are expected to visit the Aurobindo ashram here on Wednesday on the 129th birth anniversary of its co-founder late Mirra Alfassa, better known as the ‘mother’. All necessary arrangements were being made for the convenience of the devotees who would throng the premises, ashram sources said here on Tuesday. When Sri Aurobindo founded the ashram in November 1926, he entrusted its full material and spiritual charge to the Paris-born Alfassa. She became the leader of the community after Aurobindo’s death in 1950 and passed away in 1973.
The devotees would be allowed to meditate at the Samadhis of the mother and Sri Aurobindo for half-an-hour from 6 am, the sources said.The management of the ashram has erected special shamianas outside the premises to enable devotees to gather and come in a queue for dharshan inside the premises. There would be programmes like march past by the children of the international centre of education of the ashram later in the day. A team of four member’s of the Auroville International Advisory Council would also visit the ashram on Wednesday to pay homage to the mother and Sri Aurobindo. Tuesday February 20 2007 13:56 IST info@newindpress.com PTI
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