Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Sri Aurobindo manifested the full wisdom and spiritual power of the archetypal Sage

Living Beneath the Radar: A Nine-Year Journey Around the World - Page 120 Jeffrey R Crimmel - 2010 - 280 pages
Sri Aurobindo was one of those famous spiritual leaders of India's past. He started the Ashram in 1926 with the help of a French woman named Mirra Alfassa. She was later known as simple "The Mother" and in April of 1972 she was the ...
Frommer's India - Page 341 Pippa de Bruyn - 2010 - 768 pages
He met Mirra Alfassa, a Paris-born artist on a similar spiritual quest, ... With a significant following and numerous published titles to his credit, Aurobindo finally left the running of the ashram to Mirra, retreating into solitary ...
2012: Science Or Superstition - Page 206 Alexandra Bruce - 2009 - 304 pages
Sri Aurobindo and Mirra Alfassa established a community at Auroville, a city in south
India that grew out of Aurobindo's ashram. Auroville is the only internationally-endorsed 195 ongoing experiment in human unity and transformation ...
Gaia and the New Politics of Love: Notes for a Poly Planet - Page 153 Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio - 2009 - 243 pages
Auroville teaches integral yoga, the founding spiritual principle of its dual avatar leadership formed by Mirra Alfassa (also known as "The Mother") and SriAurobindo, which integrates the Vedantic and the Tantric traditions. ...
Stones of the New Consciousness: Healing, Awakening and ... - Page 39 Robert Simmons - 2009 - 320 pages
In it he chronicled the amazing work of spiritual transformation of the physical body and its consciousness undertaken by Mira Alfassa, spiritual partner of Sri Aurobindo, also known as the Mother. (I introduced these pioneers in ...
Beshara and Ibn 'Arabi: A Movement of Sufi Spirituality in the ... - Page 270 Suha Taji-Farouki - 2009
Sri Aurobindo (d.1950) was closely associated with The Mother (Mirra Alfassa, d.1973). Together they are associated with the Sri Aurobindo Ashram at
Pondicherry, with Auroville (inaugurated in 1968), and with 'Integral Yoga'. ...
Beacons of the Light: 100 Holy People Who Have Shaped the History ... - Page 519 Marcus Braybrooke - 2009 - 681 pages
The running of this, especially after Sri Aurobindo retired into seclusion in 1926, was largely in the hands of 'the Mother' as Mirra Richard (b. Alfassa) came to be known. She was born in
Paris in 1878 to Turkish and Egyptian parents. ...
Science, Spirituality and the Modernization of India - Page 127 Makarand Paranjape - 2009 - 296 pages
In addition, his life's work would soon became a collaboration with a spiritual equal, Mirra Alfassa (later called the mother), born in Paris, who first met Aurobindo in 1914, before settling permanently in Pondicherry in 1920. ...
Faith & philosophy of Hinduism - Page 165 Rajeev Verma - 2009 - 333 pages
In December of that year, Sri Aurobindo decided to withdraw from public view, and appointed his co-worker Mirra Alfassa, thenceforth known as The Mother in charge of the ashram. In the early history of the ... [Sita's Kitchen: A Testimony of Faith and Inquiry 
Ramchandra Gandhi (Hardcover - Sep 1992)]
Basics of Hinduism - Page 172 Dr. Shivendra Kumar Sinha - 2008 - 190 pages
Aurobindo Ghosh (1872-1950) He was born in
Calcutta in 1872. He studied in England for fourteen years including two ... In 1914, he met a French lady called Mirra Alfassa, who was in search of spiritual knowledge, and established an ...
Turk: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases - Page 473 Inc Icon Group International - 2008 - 524 pages
Mirra Alfassa (later Morisset and Richard), known as The Mother (February 21, 1878 - November 17, 1973), was the spiritual partner of the sage and seer SriAurobindo. She was born in
Paris to Turkish and Egyptian parents and came to his ...
Cross-cultural studies in curriculum: eastern thought, educational ... Claudia Eppert, Hongyu Wang - 2008 - 379 pages
called integral yoga with his French spiritual partner, Mira Alfassa (1878-1973), later to be known as The Mother. ... As Sri Aurobindo has written about motherhood, "The Mother's love to her children is without limit and she bears ...
The strides of Vishnu: Hindu culture in historical perspective - Page 211 Ariel Glucklich - 2008 - 241 pages
The Divine Mother, in contrast, which Aurobindo identified with his female assistant, Mirra Alfassa, is active in service of the Lord and in relation to the world. She is a mediator, dynamic, active. Sometimes Aurobindo called her ...
The Oxford encyclopedia of women in world history Bonnie G. Smith - 2008 - 2752 pages
In 1926, Mirra Alfassa, born in 1878 of an Egyptian mother and a Turkish father, migrated to Pondicherry, India, to create with her followers an ashram around Sri Aurobindo, a famed sage and holy man. The Sri Aurobindo Ashram was ...
Plant lives: borderline beings in Indian traditions Ellison Banks Findly - 2008 - 617 pages
Aurobindo developed this system over the course of forty years while in residence at his ashram in
Pondicherry. In his first year there, 1 9 1 0, he met Paul Richard who, when he returned to France, told his wife Mirra Alfassa Richard ...
Christian inculturation in India - Page 13 Paul M. Collins - 2007 - 234 pages
the society still has its international headquarters. 40 Mirra Alfassa (1878-1973), known as 'the Mother' who was born in France of Turkish and Egyptian parentage, was a co-founder of the Aurobindo Ashram, settling there from 1920. ...
Yoga Psychology and the Transformation of Consciousness: Seeing ... Don Salmon, Jan Maslow - 2007 - 407 pages
Based on the writings of Sri Aurobindo, the revolutionary poet and philosopher who founded the independence movement in India later led by Mahatma Gandhi, Yoga Psychology offers an integral vision with radical answers to the questions of ...
Japanese Style: Designing with Nature's Beauty - Page 62 Sunamita Lim, Doug Merriam - 2007 - 159 pages
This philosophy was deeply influenced by two years spent at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in
Pondicherry, India, where Nakashima supervised the building of Golconde, ... Mira herself was named after the ashram's mother, Mira Alfassa. ...
Wasan Project: Integral Education for Global Responsibility - Page 79 Breuninger Stiftung - 2007 - 232 pages
It is based on the wisdom of Sri Aurobindo and Mirra Alfasa; better know in
India as “The Mother”. Auroville wants to be “a place where the relations among beings, usually based almost exclusively upon competition and strife, ...
Four Faces of the Universe: An Integrated View of the Cosmos - Page 299 Robert Kleinman - 2007 - 334 pages
Collected Works of the Mother, Centenary Edition (Pondicherry, 1985), Vol. 4, p. 23 fn. The Mother, Mirra Alfassa Richard, was born in
France but lived more than half her life in India. She originally met Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry ...
Crystal Yoga I: The Crystal Mesa - Page 110 Roger Calverley - 2007 - 412 pages
Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) manifested the full wisdom and spiritual power of the archetypal Sage, focusing his unique spiritual ... Equally remarkable was the career of his spiritual co-worker, Mirra Alfassa, The Mother, (1878-1973). ...
Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics and Power in the Study of Religion - Page 101 Hugh B. Urban - 2007 - 372 pages
The striking irony, however, is that Aurobindo would later come to identify the Mother, not with the violent, ... but instead with one particular woman, and most remarkably, a Western woman — Mira Alfassa (later Mira Richards, ...
Identities: global studies in culture and power 2007
Mirra Alfassa, who came to be known as "The Mother," was born in
Paris in 1878 where she cultivated interests in painting, occult practices, and eastern philosophies; she met English-educated Sri Aurobindo on a trip to Pondicherry in...
Lifelong Education - Page 116, V.k.rao - 2007 - 251 pages
The Mother (Madam Mira Alfasa), was a french national by birth. She disciple of Sri Aurobindo. She built the Ashram. She also started a centre of education. She coined the term "Integral Education." According to Sri Aurobindo, ... [Dimensions of Spiritual Education Integral Education Series 4 
Norman C. Dowsett and Sitaram Jayaswal]
Tourism Management - Page 297, Jagir Singh Bajwa, Ravinder Kaur - 2007 - 297 pages
Aurobindo Ashram: This Ashram is the heart and soul of
Pondicherry. Founded by Shri Aurobindo, the great poet- philosopher of the 20th century, under the guidance of Mirra Alfassa, popularly known as the Mother. ...
Leading Lights, The - Page 101 Dr. George Kaitholil - 2007 - 203 pages
From his student days in London Aurobindo had been writing fiction and poetry. In the late 1 930s, Sri Aurobindo ... Many people came to follow Aurobindo and they became a community. In 1928 he published his booklet The Mother as an ...
Russia between East and West: scholarly debates on Eurasianism - Page 180 Dmitry Shlapentokh - 2007 - 198 pages
Mira Richards (Alfassa and “the Mother”) embraced the philosophy of Hindu mystic Sri Aurobindo and took the guidance of the ashram after his death in 1950. Auroville is a large religious city in
India growing out of Sri Aurobindo's ...
India the Elephants Blessing - Page 68 Aline Dobbie - 2006 - 253 pages
Sri Aurobindo Ghose was a Bengali poet-philosopher, a patriot before his time who joined the struggle to free India in the ... His disciple Mirra Alfassa, was later known as 'The Mother'; she was French and the daughter of a banker who ... 
Affective communities: anticolonial thought, Fin-De-Siècle ... Leela Gandhi - 2006 - 254 pages
Typical in many ways of their milieu, Edward Carpenter, Henry > Salt, Mirra Alfassa and Sri Aurobindo, and Manmohan Ghose and A^ ^ Oscar Wilde, like others who populated the subcultures that I examine in this book, gained their energies ...
In March 1914 Alfassa accompanied her husband to Pondicherry on a trip, ostensibly for electoral purposes, that would result in a momentous meeting between her and Sri Aurobindo, memorable, she later recalled, for its shock of mutual ...
The soul of the story : meetings with remarkable people David Zeller - 2006 - 245 pages
"Who is Mirra Alfassa? And what do I care?" "Perhaps you knew her as the Mother at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram." "Oh my God," I said, my eyes popping and my mouth dropping, "please tell me everything you know about Theon and the Mother....
Ecovillages: new frontiers for sustainability Jonathan Dawson - 2006 - 94 pages
Arising out of a vision by 'The Mother' (a French woman born as Mira Alfassa who was a coworker with the Indian sage Sri Aurobindo), it is a self-declared "ideal township devoted to an experiment in human unity". ... 
Symbiosis of Science and Spirituality: Generation of Innovation in ... - Page 91, Sampooran Singh, Kanwaljit Kaur - 2006 - 396 pages
Sri Aurobindo, in a prophetic vision, wrote: The East alone has some knowledge of the truth, the East alone can ... A new spirit of oneness will take hold of the human race.4c Sri Aurobindo added, "All will change if man once consent to be spiritualized". The Divine Mother (Madame Mirra Alfasa) declared, "No human organisation can change radically unless human consciousness ...