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Blanketed In Her Bliss-The Mother, Pondicherry
Early
Life
Mirra
Alfassa
was
born
in
Paris
to
her
Turkish
father
and
a
Jewish
Egyptian
mother
in
1878.
Maurice
and
Mathilde
Ismaloun
were
their
names.
Mother
recoganized
her
spiritual
tendencies
at
the
tender
age
of
five.
She often went into a blissful trance while she rested in an easy chair or during meals. She was exposed to psychic and spiritual experiences at between the age of eleven and thirteen. She was able to travel out of her body at the age of twelve through occultism. She provided refuge to people at the early age of thirteen.
Mother was enrolled in a art school at fourteen. At fifteen she wrote a mystical essay for school called 'The Path Of Later On' which could have been as a result of her peep into her future. At around nineteen and twenty she experienced a conscious and constant union with the prevailing divinity. Mother was then exposed to Vivekananda's 'Raja Yoga' and the Bhagvatgita which helped her to progress rapidly in spirituality. Mother was exposed to encounters with a dark figure of an Asian in her dreams which she related to Krishna.
In about 1905 Mother was tutored in occultism under the guidance of Max Theon and his wife. She attracted a a lot of spiritually inclined to the group she founded under the name 'L'Idee Nouvelle' ( The New Idea). Later in 1912 Mother founded another group called the 'Cosmique' for those seeking self knowledge. In 1910 Mother came to the complete orbit of divine will with the withering of her personal will in all her undertakings.
The
Mother
And
Aurobindo
On
the
7th
of
March
1914,
Mother
met
Sri
Aurobindo
with
her
husband
Paul
Richard.
She
later
related
that,
on
seeing
Sri
Aurobindo
Her
mind
flung
into
a
depth
of
peace
with
an
imposing
silence
without
the
interruption
of
thoughts.
Mother
and
Paul
had
to
leave
from
Pondicherry
for
Paris
in
1915
on
account
of
the
First
World
War.
They
then
migrated
to
Japan
where
they
spent
the
next
four
years.
It
was
there
Mother
was
said
to
have
met
Rabindranath
Tagore.
However
in
1920
Mother
returned
to
Pondicherry
with
Paul
and
worked
with
Sri
Aurobindo
on
bringing
down
the
Supramental
power
to
be
established
in
the
earthly
life.
Mother also engaged in regular evening talks and group meditation. With the increasing number of participants a need to develop an ashram was considered. The Aurobindo Ashran was founded on 24th November 1926. Sri Aurobindo soon chose to retire from the public view announcing that Mother would hence forth be the caretaker of the ashram. He further identified Mother with 'Sakti'. In His letter's and instructions to His disciples, Sri Aurobindo asked them to take to the path of spiritual surrender unto Mother.
Sri Aurobindo also encouraged Mother to wear saris which she accumulated about five hundred of them. It is said that when she was offered a lakh (1,00,000 ) for a single one, she sold them to in order to raise funds for the ashram during the financially difficult years following Sri Aurobindo's physical departure. A few others she distributed among the devotees.
Mother also considered flowers of possessing spiritual significance. She gave spiritual names to over 800 varieties of flowers. Flowers are considered as carriers of Her blessings and Grace. It is a common sight to find Mother's devotees worshipping Her with colourful flowers.
Auroville
Auroville
is
the
materialization
of
Mother's
dream
to
have
a
common
place
for
spiritual
aspirants
without
the
difficulty
for
food
and
shelter.
Auroville
or
'City
Of
Dawn'
houses
above
2000
people
at
present
.The
Matrimandir
in
Auroville
has
in
its
centre
a
meditation
hall.
It
is
constructed
in
such
a
way
that
sun
light
from
a
small
hole
in
the
roof
entered
the
place.
A
newly
added
lens
facilitates
in
having
the
light
focused
on
a
crystal
in
the
central
chamber.
The
dream
city
was
inaugurated
by
Mother
and
the
soil
from
all
the
independent
nations
of
that
period,
1960s,
was
mixed
and
placed
in
a
lotus
shaped
urn
to
signify
unity
and
brotherhood.
The Mother was an embodiment of spirituality guiding all those who took refuge under Her until she shed her body on 17th Nov 1973. Numerous are the miracles performed by Mother in the lives of Her devotees, be it spiritual or material. It is a continuing story of Her grace manifesting itself in different aspects of Her devotees' life. Hence lets hail the Mother divine to fill us with Her bountiful bliss
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