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In the News (Wed 23 Dec 09)

  
  Mirra Alfassa Morriset
It seems likely that through Matteo, Mirra and Louis already knew each other and that Louis was aware of her thirst for true knowledge.
Mirra now sought a rational explanation to the mass of experiences she had had from her childhood.
However, Mirra, who had all the shades of vibrations at her fingertips, could not be taken in by Théon's great power.
www.kheper.net /topics/Theon/Mirra.htm   (806 words)

  
  The Mother - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Mother was born Mirra (or Mira) Alfassa in Paris in 1878, of a Jewish Turkish father (Maurice, a banker), and a Jewish Egyptian mother (Mathilde Ismaloun).
Mirra said that when she first met Sri Aurobindo, she found that her thoughts ceased to run, her mind became quiet, and silence began to gather momentum, until two or three days later there was only the silence and the yogic consciousness.
Mirra heard for the first time that this new responsibility was conferred on her and she had been installed officially as The Mother.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mirra_Richard   (5079 words)

  
 Nietzsches Übermensch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Den traf Mirra erst 1914 in Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo.
Mirra machte dieses Symbol, leicht modifiziert (der Stern bekam andere Proportionen), zu Sri Aurobindos Symbol.
Mirra Alfassa, die sich selbst einmal „den größten Materialisten“ nannte, versuchte, mit den Mitteln des Geistes und der Magie (Okkultistin, die sie war) die Materie zu transzendieren und aus dem Körper den Astralleib zu schaffen, der frei von allen Krankheiten, allen Leiden und aller Sterblichkeit war.
www.kroi.de /whomirra.htm   (1805 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Collaboration (journal)
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 Sri Aurobindo.
Mothers Agenda - lAgenda - is a massive 13 volume, 6,000 page, journal of the the Mothers (born Mirra Alfassa) spiritual and physical experiences, recorded by Satprem over a period of 19 years, beginning with some fragments dating to 1951, and continuing in greater detail (especially with Satprem...
Integral Yoga or Purna Yoga (Full or Complete Yoga) refers in Sri Aurobindos teachings to the union of all the parts of ones being with the Divine, and the transmutation of all of their jarring elements into a harmonious state of higher divine consciousness and existence.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Collaboration-%28journal%29   (679 words)

  
 Mirra Alfassa
Mirra Alfassa is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
Mirra Alfassa, The Mother - Auroville, The Mother - Difficulties facing the biographer, The Mother - Early Life, The Mother - Important Disciples, The Mother - Meeting Sri Aurobindo, The Mother - Partial bibliography, The Mother - The Mother - Quotes, The Mother - The Mother of the Ashram, The Mother - The Physical Transformation
Mirra Alfassa, known as The Mother, had organized the followers of Aurobindo into the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, and originated the idea of the universal townshi...
www.experiencefestival.com /mirra_alfassa   (1068 words)

  
 Mirra Alfassa Encyclopédie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Mirra Alfassa née Paris le 21 février 1878 au 62 boulevard Haussmann, (six ans après la naissance de Sri Aurobindo à Calcutta) aussi surnommée Douce Mère ou la Mère (1878-1973) a pour identité Mirra Richard.
The Mother, French born Mirra Alfassa, who founded Auroville (on the outskirts of Pondicherry, southeast India), succeeded him.
Then in 1914 a French woman named Mirra Alfassa met him and recognised him as the spiritual guide she had been looking for.
www.encyclopedie.cc /topic/Mirra_Alfassa.html   (555 words)

  
 Mirra of Pondicherry Lives Today
Mirra's earlier role was to commence the disassembly of the entire body of corrupted knowledge of the world by going into it with all her energy.
Mirra is recorded as saying in 1972 that if she were to live to be 100 she would have a new energy and a new life.
Mirra was embarking on the exploration of physical immortality, which seems to be why she was discussing cellular transformation.
www.xeeatwelve.com /articles/mirra.html   (10551 words)

  
 Mirra - the Mother
Mirra Alfassa (1878-1973) - otherwise known as "the Mother" (not to be confused with a number of female gurus who bear the same title), was an extraordinary spiritual Teacher.
After having many spiritual and occult experiences of her own, she left for Algeria in 1906 to learn occultism more thoroughly, under the guidance of the little-known adept Max Theon and his wife Alma.
In perusing Mirra's writings one realises that she is a master at conveying the Truth in the simplest and at the same time the most profound way.
www.kheper.net /topics/Aurobindo/Mirra.htm   (345 words)

  
 Great Indians : Greatmen : Noted Indian personalities : Sree Ma: Mother
The Mother was born as Mirra Alfassa, in Paris on 21st February 1878.
Her father, Maurice Alfassa, was a wealthy Turkish banker from Adrianopolis and her mother, Mathilda Ismaloun, came from Cairo.
Mirra took an interest in everything but was specially fond of music and painting.
www.bangalinet.com /greatmen_mother.htm   (853 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Mother was born Mirra Alfassa in Paris on February 21,1878 to parents of Turkish and Egyptian ancestry.
When she was about 14, Mirra joined the world famous Ecole des Beaux Arts, for the study of Painting.
Mirra spent several years with these two pursuing a systematic study of the higher occultism.
home.earthlink.net /~ewcc/MotherBio.htm   (1708 words)

  
 The Mother - Integral Wiki
At age 14 Mirra was sent to a studio to learn art and a year later wrote, as a school essay a mystical treatise called The Path of Later On (Alfassa 1893).
She paid two extended visits (on the second she was accompanied by or later joined by Morisset (Agenda vol.x p.xxx)) to Théon's estate at Tlemcen (Algeria) to live with and learn occultism first hand from Théon and Madam Théon (Das 1978 ch.5; Nahar 1989).
Sri Aurobindo considered that Mirra - the Mother - was the incarnation of the supreme shakti.
integralwiki.net /index.php?title=The_Mother   (4987 words)

  
 Sri Aurobindo
MOTHER, otherwise known as Mirra Alfassa, was born in Paris in 1878, of an Egyptian mother and a Turkish father.
Marriage of Mathilde Ismaloun to Maurice Alfassa, in Alexandria.
Marriage of Mirra to Paul Richard, 7-9 rue du Val de Grâce.
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/swar/SAe.htm   (864 words)

  
 THE COMING OF PLANET-X;
Aurobindo Ghose and Mirra Alfassa as Pluto and Persephone.
Mirra Alfassa and Aurobindo Ghose were two 20th Century beings who proclaimed themselves Gnostics and their work to be spiritual-occult-gnostic work.
Mirra Alfassa was not a pussy-footer, not a shilly-shally or maudlin sentimentalist, nor is Persephone.
starpathvisions.com /TheComingX.html   (11698 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Mirra's French rendering of the Chronicles of Chi was applauded by Theon himself.
However, Mirra, who had all the shades of vibrations at her fingertips, could not be taken in by Theon's great power.
Apart from telling Mirra that serpents symbolized the evolution, Theon had also told her that they were, of all the animals, the most sensitive to hypnotic or magnetic power.
www.aurobindo.ru /workings/sujata/Mirra_the_occultist_e.htm   (19750 words)

  
 Mother as an Artis
Mirra studied with Marie Bricka or one of her sisters until she was fourteen or fifteen.
Earlier that year, Mirra and Henri had been in Pau, a town in the southwest of France, painting murals in a church.
Nobuko Kobayashi sometimes meditated with Mirra in a small room on the second floor of the house where the Richards were staying, which was later converted into a Tea House.
www.aurobindo.ru /workings/ma/pictures/ma_as_painter_e.htm   (8951 words)

  
 THEMES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
A passage from Shri Nolini Kanta Gupta, among the first disciples of Sri Aurobindo, whom the Mother characterized as "pilgrim to the Supermind", speaking of the particular dharma of the second century of the Divine Manifestation.
The Mother was born Mirra Alfassa on February 21, 1878.
We carry in this section a photo-darshan of the Mother, a description of the Mother of Radiances from Sri Aurobindo, the Mother's words on how she looks upon her devotees and a passage from Kapali Shastri on the place of the Mother in Sri Aurobindo's yoga.
www.sriaurobindocenter-la.org /Newsltr4/themes.html   (409 words)

  
 The Mother, Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo, yoga, the Mother, philosophy and religion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Originally named Mirra Alfassa, the Mother was born in Paris on 21 February 1878.
She was the daughter of Maurice Alfassa, a banker (born in Adrianople, Turkey in 1843) and Mathidle Ismaloun (born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1857).
Maurice, his wife and his son, Matteo (born in Alexandria in 1876), emigrated from Egypt to France in 1877, one year before Mirra's birth.
www.sriaurobindosociety.org.in /mother/mother.htm   (392 words)

  
 Mauritius Times
The Mother, as his spiritual companion and successor Mirra Richard was known, announced that “His body is charged with such a concentration of supramental light that there is no sign of decomposition”, and in fact it was not until five days later that the light started to fade.
As soon as Mirra saw him, at 3.30 in the afternoon of 29 March 1914 at the new residence at 41, rue Francois Martin, she “instantly recognized him as the ‘Krishna’ she had met so often in her visions.”
She was born Mirra Alfassa on 21 February 1878 in Paris, of an Egyptian mother and a Turkish father.
www.mauritiustimes.com /170206gopee.htm   (1439 words)

  
 The Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram —
The Mother was born in Paris, France as Mirra Alfassa on 21 February 1878.
For most of the war Mirra lived in Japan, here she adopted many of the Japanese customs and dress and spent time at Buddhist monastries.
It wasn’t until 1920 that Mira was able to return to Pondicherry to renew her spiritual collaboration with Sri Aurobindo.
www.writespirit.net /authors/the-mother   (622 words)

  
 Sri Aurobindo Circle of Boulder - Talks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Mirra Alfassa, a French woman who moved to India to collaborate with Sri Aurobindo, worked with Sri Aurobindo to develop this yoga.
She was known as "the Mother" and regarded by Sri Aurobindo as a personal incarnation of the Mahashakti.
It presents a biographical overview of the Mother's (Mirra Alfassa's) life and yogic achievements, and looks at difficulties some people have in understanding the Mother—in both her universal and personal aspects.
www.collaboration.org /centers/sacb/talks-mother.html   (171 words)

  
 The Mother
Mirra Alfassa (Paris 21.2.1878 - Pondicherry 17.11.73) was born as the second child of an Egyptian mother and a Turkish father, a few months after her parents had settled in France.
An extraordinarily gifted child, who became an accomplished painter and musician, she had many inner experiences from early childhood on.
An account of her experiences in the course of this work is given in The Mother's Agenda, an intimate record of the last 18 years of her life.
www.auroville.org /vision/ma.htm   (496 words)

  
 Enchanting South India - Mumbai (Bombay)
Before checking into the hotel you visit Sri Aurobindo Ashram, a spiritual centre founded by Sri Aurobindo and his chief disciple Mirra Alfassa.
In this aim he found a lifelong French companion in Mirra Alfassa, who became universally known as the Mother.
After his death the Mother continued as the spiritual successor and charismatic figure of Pondicherry.
www.hotelinmumbai.com /mumbai-travel-tour-packages/mumbai-tour-packages-enchanting-south-india.html   (2349 words)

  
 The Mother
Mirra Alfassa was born on 21st February 1878 in Paris.
Her father, Maurice Alfassa, was a Turkish banker.
She grew up in the Paris of the great painters of impressionism.
www.yogaschule-sri-aurobindo.de /english/mutter1.htm   (382 words)

  
 Sri Aurobindo Institute of Culture - Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Hence it is not commonly known that she was an accomplished artist.
..The Mother (Mirra Alfassa, 1878-1973) loved to draw and paint from her childhood.
Though art was only one of her many interests, it occupied a prominent place in her early life.
sriaurobindoinstitute.org /container.php?page_name=cultural/galerie_la_mere/Mother_as_an_artist   (639 words)

  
 Sri Aurobindo AshramSpirituality - Indiatimes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Auroville, a commune near Pondicherry in South India, was founded by Mirra Alfassa (below), known as the Mother.
Auroville is located on the southeast coast of India in the state of Tamil Nadu, 100 miles south of Madras and just north of the city of Pondicherry.
Planned as an international experimental township, Auroville was inspired by the evolutionary vision of Sri Aurobindo and founded by Mirra Alfassa, known as the Mother.
spirituality.indiatimes.com /articleshow/msid-1763256874,curpg-2.cms   (403 words)

  
 Mirrabelle - George Nakashima - Overview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
A masterpiece of modernist conception combined with environmentally appropriate design (e.g., the famous slats along the building's exterior that open and allow for ventilation), the Golconde is one of the dormitories for the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, in Pondicherry, India.
Comissioned in 1936 by Mirra Alfassa, co-founder of the Sri Aurbindo Ashram, it was Alfassa’s wish that Nakashima be given absolute creative control of the building.
The result of Alfassa's faith in Nakashima's talents was a masterpiece.
www.mirrabelle.com /nakashima/index.php   (619 words)

  
 Mirrabelle - Introduction to Auroville   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Auroville, whose name means “city of dawn,” was founded by Mirra Alfassa as a grand collective experiment dedicated to the realization of human unity and international understanding.
Located on a low-lying plateau on the Coromandel Coast, about 6 miles from the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, Auroville is intended as a city for up to 50,000 inhabitants from around the world.
In 1970, Alfassa conceived of erecting the Matrimandir dome next to a Banyon tree that still stands today in the center of Auroville.
www.mirrabelle.com /auroville/index.php   (511 words)

  
 The Hindu : The quest of Mirra Alfassa
The Hindu : The quest of Mirra Alfassa
A four-day celebration of talks, meditation and musical programmes will be held at the CIEFL auditorium to mark the 125th birth anniversary of the Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry.
HYDERABAD WILL pay homage to Mirra Alfassa, better known as the Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram at Pondicherry in recognition of her service for the future of mankind.
www.hindu.com /thehindu/mp/2002/12/30/stories/2002123001620300.htm   (526 words)

  
 Mirapuri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
You can discuss the issue on the talk page.
The conception of Mirapuri was worked out by Mirra Alfassa together with Michel Montecrossa in the years from 1969 till 1973.
The aim of Mirapuri is to be a place in Europe in the size of a city where people from all over the world can live and work together, who want to practise the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother and want to realize their Ideals of Peace, Love, Progress and Human-Unity.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mirapuri   (279 words)

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