Mirra Alfassa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Mirra Alfassa

spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo.

Date of Birth: 21-Feb-1878

Place of Birth: 9th arrondissement of Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 17-Nov-1973

Profession: writer, mystic

Nationality: France, India

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Mirra Alfassa

  • Mirra Alfassa (21 February 1878 – 17 November 1973), known to her followers as The Mother, was a spiritual guru, an occultist and a collaborator of Sri Aurobindo, who considered her to be of equal yogic stature to him and called her by the name "The Mother".
  • She founded the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and established Auroville as a universal town; she was an influence and inspiration to many writers and spiritual personalities on the subject of Integral Yoga. Mirra Alfassa was born in Paris on 1878 to a bourgeois family.
  • In her youth, she travelled to Algeria to practise occultism under Max Théon.
  • After returning, she travelled around the world and finally settled in Pondicherry, India with Sri Aurobindo and his followers.
  • With growing numbers of followers, the settlement was turned into an ashram over the years, where she worked with Sri Aurobindo in establishing Integral Yoga and guiding its pupils.
  • In 1943, she started a school in the ashram and in 1968 established Auroville, an experimental township free from discrimination of nationality, language, creed and politics.
  • She died on 17 November 1973 in Pondicherry. The experiences of the last thirty years of Mirra Alfassa's life were captured in the 13-volume work Mother's Agenda by Satprem who was one of her followers.

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