Mirra Alfassa (Mother) was born in Paris in 1878 to a Sephardic Jewish bourgeois family. In her youth, she traveled to Algeria to practice occultism along with Max Théon. After returning, while living in Paris, she guided a group of spiritual seekers. In 1914, she traveled to Pondicherry, India and met Sri Aurobindo and found in him "the dark Asiatic figure" of whom she had had visions and called him Krishna. During this first visit, she helped publish a French version of the periodical Arya, which serialized most of Sri Aurobindo's post-political prose writings. During the First World war she was obliged to leave Pondicherry. After a 4-year stay in Japan, in 1920 she returned to Pondicherry for good. Gradually, as more and more people joined her and Sri Aurobindo, she organised and developed Sri Aurobindo Ashram. In 1943, she started a school in the ashram and in 1968 established Auroville, an experimental township dedicated to human unity and evolution. She died on 17 November 1973 in Pondicherry.
Her arrival in Pondicherry on April 24, 1920, is celebrated every year with a special darshan and the opening of Sri Aurobindo's room.The 102nd anniversary of Mother’s final arrival in Pondicherry was celebrated with a session of meditation and silent prayer at Sri Aurobindo Ashram on Sunday 24.04.22
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| Devotees waiting for Maha Samadhi Darshan at Sri Aurobindo Ashram |
Photographs © Pondicherry Arun
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