The Mother
French-born spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo, co-founder of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, founder (in 1968) of Auroville — the international experimental township in Tamil Nadu intended as a living laboratory for human unity — and the woman known throughout the Aurobindo lineage simply as The Mother. Born Mirra Alfassa in 1878 in Paris to Sephardic Jewish parents from Egypt and Turkey, she pursued painting, music, and esoteric studies (including a deep relationship with the Theonic and Cosmic teachings of Max Théon), met Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry in 1914, and from 1920 collaborated with him in the development of Integral Yoga and the supramental work. After Aurobindo's withdrawal in 1926 she became the Ashram's primary teacher and organizer; after his passing in 1950 she carried the work forward for another twenty-three years until her own death in 1973. The vast Mother's Agenda — thirteen volumes of conversations with her disciple Satprem covering 1951-1973 — preserves the most detailed first-person record of late twentieth-century yogic experience available in any tradition.
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Quotes by The Mother
117 quotes“This is not a utopia. This is the next step in human evolution.”
aurovilleThe Mother on Auroville
“Auroville belongs to nobody in particular.”
aurovilleThe Mother on Auroville
“Auroville belongs to humanity as a whole.”
aurovilleThe Mother on Auroville
“To live in Auroville one must be a willing servitor of the Divine Consciousness.”
aurovilleThe Mother on Auroville
“Auroville will be the place of an unending education, of constant progress, and a youth that never ages.”
aurovilleThe Mother on Auroville
“Auroville wants to be the bridge between the past and the future.”
aurovilleThe Mother on Auroville
“Taking advantage of all discoveries from without and from within, Auroville will boldly spring towards future realizations.”
aurovilleThe Mother on Auroville
“There is one mind. There is one body. There is one consciousness.”
mindMother's Agenda
“All the apparent diversity is the play of the One.”
diversityMother's Agenda
“To realize this in your own being is the work of integral yoga.”
realizationMother's Agenda
“Will is the action of consciousness on itself.”
willWords of the Mother
“You can will yourself to be conscious. Or you can let unconsciousness will you.”
willWords of the Mother
“This is the freedom you carry within.”
freedomWords of the Mother
“Doubt is the great obstacle.”
doubtWords of the Mother
“Faith is the great enabler.”
faithWords of the Mother
“Faith is not belief. Faith is inner certainty.”
faithWords of the Mother
“You can have faith only in what you have experienced.”
faithWords of the Mother
“Aspire. Surrender. Trust.”
aspirationWords of the Mother
“You came here for a reason.”
reasonMother's Agenda
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