The Mother (of Sri Aurobindo Ashram)

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Item Code: IDH131
Author: Prema Nandakumar
Publisher: National Book Trust, India
Language: English
Edition: 2005
ISBN: 8123723865
Pages: 142
Cover: Paperback
Other Details 8.4" X 5.3"
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About the Book

Born in Paris to wealthy parents, Mirra Alfassa's spiritual quest brought her to India where she joined forces with Sri Aurobindo for the realisation of his vision of the future. She was the main force behind the setting up of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram at Pondicherry, and while Aurobindo was the guru, she became the 'Mother' to the inmates of the Ashram. Their vision of a world populated by 'superconscious' men is of special relevance today, when most of the civilized world, recoiling from the 'progress glut' is trying to remove the disharmonies it has inherited inherited in the wake of technological advances. The benign and fascinating personality of the Mother is brought to life in all its vividness and complexity in this short biography published on the eve of the mother's centenary on 21 February 1978.

About the Author

Prema Nandakumar is well known for her standard critical study of Sri Aurobindo's Savitri and for her learned books on poet Bharati's life and works and sensitive renderings of his poems into English. As a child, she grew up ' in an environment where the Mother and Sri Aurobindo were living presence'. This is reflected in the perceptive descriptions of the Mother-her vision, and the efforts to realize that vision.

Preface

There have been several illustrious women from the West who chose India as their sadhana kendra, field of action and realisation. Sister Nivedita, Annie Besant, Ida Scudder, Mira Behn, Sophia Wadia, Mother Teresa ... the list grows long. These elect spirits came, casting aside the comforts of their homes, to suffer, sacrifice and build a new life for the people of their adopted country, India.

The ministry of Mirra, the Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, had a similar impulsion, and achieved truly phenomenal results. Born on 21 February 1878 in Paris, she first came to Pondicherry in 1914, and joined forces with Sri Aurobindo for the realisation of his vision of the future. After his passing in 1950, she remained in India to continue his work which was verily the transformation of human con- sciousness and the establishment of Life Divine on the earth. At the age of ninety-five, the Mother withdrew from the physical sheath that was her consecrated body on 17 No- vember 1973. As the architect of Sri Aurobindo Ashram and as the inspiration behind' Auroville', the City of Dawn, the Mother will forever remain a potent and living force in the earth atmosphere.

I was pleasantly surprised when the National Book Trust, India, asked me to write a short biography of the Mother, for I knew at once that it was a formidable, even an impossible, task. Nevertheless, encouraged by my father, Professor K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar, I accepted the assignment though not without a measure of diffidence.

Since my childhood thirty years ago, I have grown in an environment where the Mother and Sri Aurobindo were living presences. After I had completed my book, A Study of 'Savitri', I was permitted to have darshan of the Mother, and during the fifteen minutes I was with her in my father's com- pany (that was in 1961), I found her verily incarnate grace. How is one to attempt a biography of that power and per- sonality?

During the last year, my father has been revising and greatly expanding his earlier On the Mother (1952), and he readily placed in my hands the manuscript of his compre- hensive study of the Mother. My work was thus rendered easy, for in the main I had only to select what I needed for my purpose, and present the material in my own way. My father has also gone through my first draft, and made many suggestions towards its improvement, which I have grate- fully incorporated.

I am thankful to the copyright department, Sri Auro- bindo Ashram, for permitting me to use quotations from the writings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.

CONTENTS
  Preface vii
 
Part I: ASPIRATION
 
1 Childhood and Girlhood 3
2 Sence of Mission 5
3 Occult Pastures 8
4 The Paris Group 10
5 Sri Aurobindo 14
6 Spiritual Diary 17
7 Sailing for India 19
8 Meeting Sri Aurobindo 22
9 Collaboration 25
10 Return to France 28
11 Vedic Experience 31
12 Japan 33
13 To the Women of Japan 36
14 Return to Pondicherry 39
15 Sadhana and Siddhi 43
 
Part II Dedication
 
16 The Ashram 51
17 The Mother 54
18 Conversations 61
19 Darshans 64
20 The War Years 68
21 The Coming of the Children 71
22 Karma Sanyasa Yoga 76
23 Towards the Future 78
24 Tales of all Times 81
25 Sri Aurobindo's Withdrawal 85
 
Part III: CREATION
 
26 Her Single Greatness 91
27 University Centre 96
28 Vision of the Future 100
29 The Great Secret 103
30 She was Ambitious 106
31 The Supramental Descent 110
32 New Dimensions 113
33 In her Eighties 116
34 The Attack on the Ashram 118
35 Manifold Ministry 120
36 Auroville 124
37 The Living Flame 128
  Select Bibliography 133

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