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Mirra Alfassa, auch Mira Alfassa, bekannt als The Mother / Die Mutter, war die spirituelle Partnerin des Philosophen und Yogi Sri Aurobindo. Sie ist die Begründerin des Projekts Auroville und konzipierte das Matrimandir.



Mirra wuchs in Frankreich auf. Sie war türkisch-ägyptischer Abstammung und mit dem jüdischen Geschlecht der Alfassa verwandt. Am 29. März 1914 kam sie zum ersten Mal nach Puducherry, wo sie Aurobindo traf. 1920 ließ sie sich endgültig im Ashram nieder. Nachdem sich Sri Aurobindo am 24. November 1926 gänzlich aus der Öffentlichkeit zurückgezogen hatte, trug sie die Verantwortung für die Organisation des Ashrams und übernahm nach seinem Tod ab 1950 die Führung. Mirra Alfassa war der erste Mensch aus dem Westen, der in Indien als Guru verehrt wurde. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. Februar 1878 – 17. November 1973
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“I took my little cat-it was really sweet -and put it on a table and called Sri Aurobindo. I told him, "Kiki has been stung by a scorpion, it must be cured." The cat stretched its neck and looked at Sri Aurobindo, its eyes already a little glassy. Sri Aurobindo sat before it and looked at it also. Then we saw this little cat gradually beginning to recover, to come round, and an hour later it jumped to its feet and went away completely healed.”

One day a cat named Kiki happened to play with a scorpion and got stung. It quickly ran to the Mother and showed her the paw which was already dangerously swollen. "I took my little cat -it was really sweet, quoted in "Pondicherry", also in God Shall Grow Up: Body, Soul & Earth Evolving Together by Wayne Bloomquist (1 January 2001) http://books.google.co.in/books?id=T1Me82LNkP0C&pg=PA90, p. 90.

“… after a month's yoga I looked exactly eighteen. And someone who had seen me before, who had lived with me in Japan and came here, found it difficult to recognize me. He asked me, "But really, is it you?"”

I said, "Of course!"
After doing yoga and sadhana with Sri Aurobindo, the Mother experienced a visible physical change, quoted in " Pondicherry http://www.searchforlight.org/TheMother_lifeSketchpart6.htm, also in The Mother: The Story of Her Life - George Van Vrekhem (2000) http://books.google.co.in/books?id=On_XAAAAMAAJ, p. 201

“I don't feel that you are sincere, neither you nor your flock. You all went there to fulfill a social duty and social custom, but not at all because you really wanted to enter into communion with God.”

Comment to a Priest who questioned her for not attending the Sunday service during her voyage on the ship Kaga Maru, quoted in Diary notes and Meeting with Sri Aurobindo http://www.searchforlight.org/TheMother_lifeSketchpart4.htm.

“I belong to no nation, no civilization, no society, no race, but to the Divine. I obey no master, no rules, no law, no social convention, but the Divine. To Him I have surrendered all, will, life and self; for Him I am ready to give all my blood, drop by drop, if such is His will, with complete joy, and nothing in his service can be sacrifice, for all is perfect delight.”

from Collected Works of The Mother, Volume 2, Words of Long Ago, p.166 (February, 1920, Japan) http://www.sriaurobindoashram.org/ashram/mother/on_herself.php Also quoted by Debbie Magee, in "Auroville — The City Of Dawn in South India" (27 February 2009) http://serreal.ning.com/group/greencommunities/forum/topics/auroville-the-city-of-dawn-in, also in Beyond the Mask: The Rising Sign — Part I: Aries — Virgo, Part 1 by Kathleen Burt (1 January 2010) http://books.google.co.in/books?id=Q4kbBqVe0RIC&pg=PA46, p. 46
Sayings

“It is in accordance with the impression that the plate ought to be painted; it gives you an impact, you translate the impact, and it is this which is truly artistic. It is like this that modern art began. And note that he was right. His plates were not round, but he was right in principle.”

As quoted in "Paris (1897-1904)", and in The Mother on Art http://www.motherandsriaurobindo.org/Content.aspx?ContentURL=/_staticcontent/sriaurobindoashram/-02%20the%20mother/the%20mother%20as%20an%20artist/-05%20mother%20on%20art.htm

“Yes, indeed, I do feel the weight of the world's miseries pressing upon me!”

Response when her mother asked her: Why do you sit thus with a set face, as if the whole world were pressing upon you? in "Birth and Girlhood", and in The Mother (of Sri Aurobindo Ashram) by Prema Nandakumar (1977) http://books.google.co.in/books?id=R1sqAAAAYAAJ, p. 1

“Will you shut up now?”

At the age of seven she set right a thirteen-year old bully, who was bullying and molesting girls, by lifting him up and throwing him down with great force. She attributed this power to Mahakali the divine warrior force, quoted in "Birth and Girlhood".

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