June 24, 2010

Anita Desai’s book reduces the stature of The Mother and is unable to do justice to her

Living Beneath the Radar: A Nine-Year Journey Around the World - Page 120 Jeffrey R Crimmel - 2010 - 280 pages
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 only one of the two founders left. She would leave her body within a year. ...
Frommer's India - Page 341 Pippa de Bruyn - 2010 - 768 pages
He met Mirra Alfassa, a Paris-born artist on a similar spiritual quest, in 1914; she became his soul mate, and her ministrations earned her the appellation “The Mother.” Founded as a place to foster evolution to a higher level of ...
The Way Home: Making Heaven on Earth - Page 37 Madis Senner - 2009 - 260 pages
Sri Aurobindo's spiritual partner the Mother, Mirra Alfassa, describes the life of a thought once created, the battles, the desire to manifest and how filled-up the unseen world is with our thought forms: We are all the time, always, ...
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 ...
Life Is about Choices: Creating Our Reality - Page 70 Ed Scott - 2009 - 144 pages
Examples of a few of the women are Sri Anandamayi Ma and Mirra Alfassa (The Mother). Another contemporary teacher was Sister Theresa. Many people believe her to be a Saint, and others, a spiritual Master. Still others believe that she ...
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 Sri Aurobindo, which integrates ...
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. ...
Altered Destinations: Self, Society, and Nation in India - Page 193 Makarand Paranjape - 2009 - 214 pages
In India's rebirth.
Paris: Institut de Recherches Evolutives; Mysore: Mira Aditi. Aurobindo, Sri and the Mother. 1995. A new education for a new consciousness. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Bharatiya Janata Party. 1992. ...
Another Canon: Indian Texts and Traditions in English - Page 124 Makarand Paranjape - 2009 - 293 pages
The American dancer, Ruth St Denis and Mira Richard, who later became the Mother of
Pondicherry. ... because the book reduces the stature of the Mother and is unable to do justice to her. ... Though no 'official' response from Sri Aurobindo Ashram has been forthcoming so far, Ashram circles have voiced their disapproval and ...
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 ...
Basics of Hinduism - Page 172 Dr.Shivendra Kumar Sinha - 2008 - 190 pages
In 1914, he met a French lady called Mirra Alfassa, who was in search of spiritual knowledge, and established an Ashrama at
Pondicherry in South India, where he practised and preached Yoga as a means to realise God. ...
The participatory turn: spirituality, mysticism, religious studies - Page 309 Jorge N. Ferrer, Jorge Noguera Ferrer, Jacob H ... - 2008 - 388 pages
... and what he calls Overmind; and then, fourthly, the great achievement for which he and his spiritual collaborator the Mother (née Mira Richard) were reportedly instruments, namely, the descent and spread of the Supermind. ...
Theory and Practice of Yoga : 'Essays in Honour of Gerald James Larson - Page 25 Knut A. Jacobsen - 2008 - 478 pages
He and his French colleague, Mira Richard ('The Mother'), attracted devotees from all over the world to their centre in Pondicherry. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (b. 1911), the founder of Transcendental Meditation, successfully promoted a form ...
Nietzsche, power and politics: rethinking Nietzsche's legacy for ... Herman Siemens, Vasti Roodt - 2008 - 878 pages
In 1914-21, together with a French-Jewish admirer, Mirra Richard-Alfassa, he also published a monthly devoted to the cause of
India's self-rediscovery and emancipation, the Arya. In 1875, a socially progressive but religiously ...
The Promise: Revealing the Purpose of Your Soul - Page 106 Therèse Tappouni - 2008 - 255 pages
Mira Alfassa, “The Mother's Vision,” twentieth-century French mystic If we return to the concept of loving versus being enamored of the material world, the darkness will lift. When our energy is fully engaged with the universe, ...
Cross-cultural studies in curriculum: eastern thought, educational ... Claudia Eppert, Hongyu Wang - 2008 - 379 pages
to embody a new system of spiritual development called integral yoga with his French spiritual partner, Mira Alfassa (1878-1973), later to be known as The Mother. The reason why she was called The Mother may be related to the tradition...
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, ... In 1968, after the death of Sri Aurobindo, The Mother, as Mirra Alfassa was now called, established another, ...
Plant lives: borderline beings in Indian traditions, Ellison Banks Findly - 2008 - 617 pages
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 (1878- 1973), a talented artist, pianist, and writer,137 about Aurobindo. Her response - coming as it did out ...
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. ...
Sages Through Ages - Volume III: India's Heritage - Page 67 K. K. Nair - 2007 - 132 pages
The Mother whom we refer to was a French woman by name Mira Richard who met Aurobindo for the first time in
March 29th 1914. She recognised him as a Being who had been guiding her in her Sadhana. She was 36 years old when she met him. ...
The many colors of Hinduism: a thematic-historical introduction - Page 335 Carl Olson - 2007 - 395 pages
During Aurobindo's later life, Mira Richard, a collaborator and disciple, was designated an incarnation called the Divine Mother. Followers credited her with the inspiration for the city of
Auroville in a dream in 1956. ...
Yoga: an annotated bibliography of works in English, 1981-2005 Daren Callahan - 2007 - 353 pages
Together with The Mother (the former Mira Richard), he founded an ashram where the idea that "all life is Yoga" could be applied. Sri Aurobindo chose to limit his contact with others in order to concentrate fully on spiritual practice, ...
The social and the symbolic - Page 61 Bernard Bel - 2007 - 481 pages
while his ashram at
Pondicherry was managed by Mira Richard, to whom Aurobindo gave the title of Sri Ma, ëthe Motherí. He withdrew further into seclusion when he accepted Mira Richard as his Bhakti in 1926, discovering ëthe primal ...
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 Ghandi, 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
... a disciple of Sri Aurobindo's to the end of his days, his daughter, Mira, wrote.4 On his thirty-third birthday, Nakashima received his spiritual name from Sri ... Mira herself was named after the ashram's mother, Mira Alfassa. ...
The dictionary of alternatives: utopianism and organization - Page 19 Martin Parker, Valérie Fournier, Patrick Reedy - 2007 - 338 pages
Auroville is based on the vision of Indian political leader, scholar, teacher, poet and spiritual visionary Sri Aurobindo and his disciple Mirra Alfassa (also known as 'the Mother'). They wish to create a town where men and women of all ...
Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics and Power in the Study of Religion - Page 101 Hugh B. Urban - 2007 - 372 pages
... a Western woman — Mira Alfassa (later Mira Richards, 1 878-1 973). Born in
Paris of a Sephardic Jewish family, Richards had been a student at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and part of the artistic avant-garde scene in Paris. ...
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
Finally, he settled in
pondicherry, where he pursued Integral Youga. 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. ...
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 ...
Cultural dynamics and strategies of the Indian élite (1870-1947): ...,n Samuel Berthet, France. Ambassade (India ... - 2006 - 239 pages
At the end of the nineteenth century, many theosophical works were published in French. Another neo-Hindu movement was founded by the Bengali nationalist, Aurobindo Ghose, in
Pondicherry, together with Mira Richard, the wife of France's
New religions in global perspective: a study of religious change ... - Page 213 Peter Bernard Clarke - 2006 - 385 pages
As we have seen, Aurobindo's ideas were later to greatly influence the development of the NAM in India by inspiring Mira Richard (1878–1973), whom he met in 1910 and who became known to its members as Mother, to create the New Age ...
Symbiosis of Science and Spirituality: Generation of Innovation in ... - Page 91, Sampooran Singh, Kanwaljit Kaur - 2006 - 396 pages
The Divine Mother (Madame Mirra Alfasa) declared, "No human organisation can change radically unless human consciousness itself changes". Man is caught in two crises - the civilisational crisis and crisis due to the thrust of ...
Affective communities: anticolonial thought, Fin-De-Siècle ... Leela Gandhi - 2006 - 254 pages
... 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 from the chaotic world of late- nineteenth-century ...
The World's Greatest Seers and Philosophers - Page 115 Clifford Sawhney - 2005 - 142 pages
To immerse himself in meditation and yogic practices, he could now afford the luxury of seclusion as he had handed over active running of the Ashram to his spiritual partner, Mira Richard (1878-1973), popularly called the Mother. ...
Society and self in the novels of R.P. Jhabvala and Kamala Markandaya - Page 155 Nagendra Kumar Singh - 2005 - 194 pages
Then there is the them of Mira-Richard love which is not convincing and not true to nature. Finally, there is the theme of patriotism and national movement under the British regime. It is the terrorist aspect of the freedom struggle ...
Shadow, self, spirit: essays in transpersonal psychology - Page 192 Michael Daniels - 2005 - 366 pages
After his acquittal in 1909 he moved to Pondicherry, renounced violent protest, and dedicated the remainder of his life to spiritual writing and teaching. At
Pondicherry, in 1914, he first met Mirra Alfassa / Mirra Richard. ...
The intuitive way: the definitve guide to increasing your awareness - Page 72 Penney Peirce, Carol Adrienne - 2005 - 260 pages
Mirra Alfassa, otherwise known as "the Mother," who headed Sri Aurobindo's ashram after his death, spent many of her ninety-five years penetrating the consciousness of her cells in search of a new form of enlightenment. ...
The Primal Runes: Archetypes of Invocation and Empowerment - Page 28 Roger Calverley - 2005 - 338 pages
My own personal connection with the Primal Runes unfolded in the context of my inner connection to The Mother (Mirra Alfassa), and her guidance has been so important in all aspects of this work that it would be impossible to go further ...
India: The Journey of a Lifetime - Page 103 Ivonne Delaflor - 2005 - 170 pages
He wrote many books that promoted a visionary view of the world to come and the evolutionary process. Aurobindo's insights were accurate and full of love. In 1926, he began his total renunciation and left Mira Alfassa (later known as ...
The other side of belief: interpreting U.G. Krishnamurti, Mukunda Rao - 2005 - 350 pages
39 In some ways, their relationship reminds one of the strange relationship between Aurobindo and Mirra Alfassa, who later came to be known as the Mother. Mirra first saw Sri Aurobindo 'in a dream'; and ten years later, in 1920, ...
Political agenda of education: a study of colonialist and ... - Page 38 Krishna Kumar - 2005 - 223 pages
Sri Aurobindo's associate, Mirra Alfassa, popularly known as the Mother, developed an institutionalized programme of education in Pondicherry, which combined physical, vital, psychic and spiritual training of children. ...
Indian writing in English: critical appraisals - Page 291 Amar Nath Prasad - 2005 - 327 pages
(Nadkarni, M. 1 1) Mirra Blanch Rachel Alfassa, the extraordinarily spiritually gifted French lady who joined Aurobindo in 1920 AD to start the Pondichery Ashram. Indian poetry (and not merely Indian English poetry) will remain indebted ...
Nationalism, religion, and beyond: writings on politics, society, ... Aurobindo Ghose, Peter Heehs - 2005 - 364 pages
This group assumed a more organised shape after the arrival of Mirra Alfassa, a seeker from France whom Aurobindo soon acknowledged as his spiritual equal and collaborator. In 1926, he handed control of his ashram (as it became known) ...
A New America: An Awakened Future on Our Horizon - Page 113 Kochkin and Van Camp - 2005 - 350 pages
first of all fight an enormous mass of foolish prejudices which put material and spiritual life irreconcilably against each other ... One must be able to take up all, to combine all, to synthesize all.” – The Mother (Mirra Alfassa) ...
The graceful guru: Hindu female gurus in India and the United States - Page 130 Karen Pechilis - 2004 - 260 pages
The figure of Mother Meera may be understood from within the context of the Hindu devotional or bhakti tradition, as a disciple and self-acclaimed successor to Aurobindo and Mira Alfassa, as a female version of the silent saint Ramana ...
Mira to Mother - Page 9 Udhaya Kumar - 2004 - 164 pages
Mira was an expert in painting flowers, still life and portraits. As usual her brother Mateo Alfassa was the model for her portraits. One day he was shocked to look at his portrait. "This doesn't look like me. This looks like a monkey. ...
The essential Aurobindo - Page 265 Aurobindo Ghose, Robert A. McDermott - 2001 - 288 pages
Had Aurobindo Ghose not evolved into Sri Aurobindo, or had Mira Richard not attained the realization of herself as the ... Arjuna, Aurobindo, and Mira Richard died to the old self and were born to the new — which self is in fact the old ...
My Father's Guru: A Journey Through Spirituality and Disillusion J. Moussaieff Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson - 1998 - 192 pages
She was a French woman of Egyptian decent, named Mira Richard, born in 1 878, known simply as La Mere, the mother. She looked ancient to me (at the time she was just turning eighty), but she had told the disciples that she had conquered ...
Coming into being: artifacts and texts in the evolution of ... - Page 161 William Irwin Thompson - 1998 - 336 pages
... from matriarchal to patriarchal culture, for the period of 2000 BCE And Jesus and Mary are the archetypal Near Eastern couple for the period of 1 to 2000 AD It remains to be seen whether Sri Aurobindo and Mother Mira Richard are the ...

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