The Mother

The Mother was born in Paris on 21^st Fabruaru1878. In between the ages of  11 and 13 a series of psychic and spiritual experiences were revealed to her not only the existence of God, but also man’s possibility of uniting with Him, of realizing Him integrally in consciousness and action, of manifesting Him upon earth in a life divine. Later on, as the interior and exterior development proceeded, the spiritual and psychic relation with one the Beings became more and more clear and frequent. Although she knew little of Indian philosophy and religion at that time, she called the special Being as Krishna. when the Mother was about 21, got copy of the Bhagvadgeeta, very inadequate French translation, but she could perceive by intuition, the true content of this Indian scripture. She envisaged Krishna as the immanent Godhead, as the Divine within ourselves. After completing the whole Geeta, she has got the experience of Krishna as immanent God. At the first physical meeting with Sri Aurobindo on 29-3-1914 was a decisive experience for the Mother and she immediately recognized in him the one whom she had so often met in her dreams and whom she had called Krishna.

On 24^th April 1920 the Mother could at last and for good return to Pondicherry. The Mother’s arrival in Sri Aurobindo’s house entailed several changes in the household. His disciples had so far been living rather freely and without constraints. Sri Aurobindo did not interfere much with what the were doing, since he was immersed in his own sadhana. The Mother became part of this community now and whole household was newly arranged by her. At the same time collective meditations were begun in which Sri Aurobindo, the Mother, the members of his group as well as visitors took part. It was at this moment that the foundation of  ashram was laid, even though it was not consciously planned or discussed. Things took their own course and there was an organic development.

Exactly 24 disciples were present on 24th November 1926 and Sri Aurobindo gave them explicit instrucions to take guidance from the Mother, since he would now do all the work through her. It happened quite naturally now that  an ever growing number of sadhaksand devotees were concentrating on the Mother and requiring her attention. Unending cascades of prayers were directed towards her, requests for help in sadhana, help in life, support in illness and calamity.

On 6^th December 1950 the Mother said to Dr, Sanyal—people do not know what a tremendous sacrifice He(Sri Aurobindo) has made for the world. Sri Aurobindo had left his body; the Mother stood alone now and shouldered the burden with unbroken determination.

On 24^th April1951 the Mother announced in a convention with leading intellectuals and educationalists of the country the foundation of an International University Centre, which was inaugurated on 6^th January 1952. The Mother also decided to realize further an old dream of hers to create a place where seekers from all over the world could live a progressive life in the service of truth on a city level. Auroville signifies city of dawn. On 8^th September 1965 the Mother declared Auroville wants to be a universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony, above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to realize human unity. The inauguration of Auroville was on 28^th February 1968.

The outer activity of the Mother, her role as head and organizer of the Ashram, as guru of the sadhaks, was only one aspect of her life. She had another wider existence in the inner planes.

The Mother’s physical presence had come to an end on 17^th November 1973, but her disciples were there to continue the work and she herself remains in close contact with the earth-atmosphere, from the other side. In a superamental body in the subtle-physical world.