Mirra Alfassa citations

Mirra Alfassa , née le 21 février 1878 à Paris 9e et morte le 17 novembre 1973 à Pondichéry , aussi surnommée Douce Mère ou la Mère, a pour nom d'épouse Mirra Richard. Elle est connue pour son parcours spirituel avec Sri Aurobindo, ses écrits, et pour être à l'origine de la cité d'Auroville en Inde. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. février 1878 – 17. novembre 1973
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“O Lord, this earth groans and suffers; chaos has made this world its abode. The darkness is so great that Thou alone canst dispel it. Come, manifest Thyself, that Thy work may be accomplished. Solitude, a harsh, intense solitude, and always this strong impression of having been flung headlong into an inferno of darkness! … Sometimes … I cannot prevent my total sub-mission from taking a hue of melancholy, and the calm and mute converse with the Master within is transformed for a moment into an invocation almost suppliant, O Lord, what have I done that Thou throwest me thus into the sombre night?”

Her entry in her diary when she left Pondicherry and on the tumultuous developments in the world for the War, quoted in "Diary notes and Meeting with Sri Aurobindo" and also in IV. Diary Notes And Meeting With Sri Aurobindo http://www.motherandsriaurobindo.org/Content.aspx?ContentURL=/_staticcontent/sriaurobindoashram/-04%20Centers/India/Pondicherry/Sri%20Aurobindo%20Society/Wilfried/The%20Mother%20-%20A%20Short%20Biography/007_Diary%20Notes%20and%20Meeting%20with%20Sri%20Aurobindo.htm, p. 21

“Not once do you have the feeling that you are in contact with something other than a marvellously organised mental-physical domain.”

On her feelings during stay in Japan, quoted in "Japan (1916-20)" and also in On the Mother: The Chronicle of a Manifestation and Ministry by K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar (1 January 1995) http://books.google.co.in/books?id=WIPXAAAAMAAJ, p. 160

“The Gita was an important scripture which elucidated an important Truth, and yet one thing was missing in it: the idea of the transformation of the outer nature of man, which is one main object of Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga.”

After having read a French translation of the Bhagavad Gita given to her by an Indian who had “advised her to envisage Krishna as the immanent Godhead, as the Divine within ourselves, quoted in "Paris (1897-1904)", and in II. PARIS (1897-1904), Sri Aurobindo's Ashram http://www.motherandsriaurobindo.org/Content.aspx?ContentURL=_staticcontent/sriaurobindoashram/-04%20centers/india/pondicherry/sri%20aurobindo%20society/wilfried/The%20Mother%20-%20A%20Short%20Biography/-005_Paris%20(1897-1904).htm.

“With my inner consciousness I understood immediately; a few hours later the creation was gone … and from that moment we started anew on other bases.”

Reprting about developments after the descent of over mind into the physical, quoted in "Pondicherry", also in The Mother: The Story of Her Life by Georges Van Vrekhem (2004) http://books.google.co.in/books?id=8hgG8aweqncC&pg=RA1-PT107, p. 107

“The life we lead here is as far from ascetic abstinence as from an enervating comfort; simplicity is the rule here, but a simplicity full of variety, a variety of occupations, of activities, tasks, tendencies, natures; each one is free to organise his life as he pleases, the discipline is reduced to a minimum that is indispensable to organize the existence of 110 to 120 people and to avoid the movements which would be detrimental to the achievement of our yogic aim.”

In The Formation Of The Ashram http://www.searchforlight.org/Sriaurobindo_Ashram1.htm, also in VII. The Formation of The Ashram http://www.sriaurobindoashram.com/Content.aspx?ContentURL=/_StaticContent/SriAurobindoAshram/-04%20Centers/India/Pondicherry/Sri%20Aurobindo%20Society/Wilfried/The%20Mother%20-%20A%20Short%20Biography/-010_The%20Formation%20of%20the%20Ashram.htm pp.39-40

“I was on the boat, at sea, not expecting anything (I was of course busy with the inner life, but I was living physically on the boat), when all of a sudden, abruptly, about two nautical miles from Pondicherry, the quality, I may even say physical quality, of the atmosphere of the air, changed so much that I knew we were entering the aura of Sri Aurobindo. It was a physical experience.”

On her return to Pondicherry in April 1920 accompanied by an English lady, Miss Dorothy Hodgeson, after she had refused an offer by Rabindranath Tagore to take charge of Shantiniketan, his educational institute, quoted in "Japan (1916-20)", in [ Chapter 14 Second Coming, K R Srinivas Iyengar http://sriaurobindoashram.com/Content.aspx?ContentURL=_staticcontent/sriaurobindoashram/-09%20e-library/-03%20Disciples/K%20R%20Srinivas%20Iyengar/On%20The%20Mother/-16_Second%20Coming.htm, p. 202

“I started contemplating or doing my Yoga from the age of 4. There was a small chair for me on which I used to sit still, engrossed in my meditation. A very brilliant light would then descend over my head and produce some turmoil inside my brain. Of course I understood nothing, it was not the age for understanding. But gradually I began to feel, "I shall have to do some tremendously great work that nobody yet knows."”

In Birth and Girlhood http://www.searchforlight.org/TheMother_lifeSketch1.htm, during her childhood days in when she was aware of her special purpose of life, her mission on earth, and also in On the Mother Divine by Pasupati Bhattacharya (1968) http://books.google.co.in/books?id=1loqAAAAYAAJ, p. 10

“For four years, from an artistic point of view, I lived from wonder to wonder.”

On her four years stay in Japan from March 1916, quoted in Japan (1916- 1920) http://www.searchforlight.org/TheMother_lifeSketchpart5.htm

“Who have undertaken to achieve self-mastery, those who want to find the path that leads to the Divine, and those who aspire to consecrate themselves more and more completely to the Divine Work.”

In her preface to the book "Prieres et Meditations" which was translated into English by Sri Aurobindo, quoted in "Diary notes and Meeting with Sri Aurobindo."
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“It matters little that there are thousands of beings plunged in the densest ignorance; He whom we saw yesterday is on earth; his presence is enough to prove that a day will come when darkness shall be transformed into light, and Thy reign shall actually be established upon earth.”

When she met Sri Aurobindo for the first time with her husband Richards at rue Fransçois Martin at Pondicherry, quoted in "Diary notes and Meeting with Sri Aurobindo", and also in Biblio, Volume 3 Asia-Pacific Communication Associates, (1998) http://books.google.co.in/books?id=tC9VAAAAYAAJ, p. 33

“The Best way to express one's gratitude to the Divine is to feel simply happy.”

In "Paris (1897-1904)", also in Words of The Mother Sri Aurobindo Ashram, (1987) http://books.google.co.in/books?id=ljoqAAAAYAAJ, p. 163
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“What Sri Aurobindos' represents in the worlds' history is not a teaching, not even a revelation; it is a decisive action direct from the Supreme.”

Quoted in "Diary notes and Meeting with Sri Aurobindo", also in The Spirituality of the Future: A Search Apropos of R. C. Zaehner's Study in … by Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna (1 January 1981) http://books.google.co.in/books?id=dYKjb9EMqjIC&pg=PA72, p. 72
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“They do not feel bound by the customary rules of conduct and have not yet found an inner law that would replace them.”

On artists whom she had often found of rather loose morals, quoted in "Paris (1897-1904)" and in Mother India, Volume 20 (1968) http://books.google.co.in/books?id=YifkAAAAMAAJ, p. 46

“If ever I leave my body, my consciousness will remain with you.”

In "Auroville — The City Of Dawn in South India" (27 February 2009)
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“Consciousness, to be sure, is more effective than packets of medicine.”

Her final comment on her experience of getting out of the epidemic, quoted in "Japan" (1916-20)

“He (Sri Aurobindo) did not keep me, what could I do? I had to go. But I left my psychic being with him, and in France I was once on the point of death: the doctors had given me Up.”

When she left Pondicherry on 22 February 1915, when her husband was called home [France] to join the French Reserve Army, quoted in "Diary notes and Meeting with Sri Aurobindo", Sri Aurobindo Circle, Issue 33 by Aurobindo Ghose (1977) http://books.google.co.in/books?id=bcPWAAAAMAAJ, p. 84

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