Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Mirra Alfassa, the Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

Sri Aurobindo was not a "Gandhian", he was a revolutionary. If you get time, read "Revolutionaries: The Other Story of How India Won Its Freedom" by Sanjeev Sanyal. Its an eye opener.

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After reading sri aurobindo and mother Mirra ; I got all the Answers iwas looking and  they have solved the riddle of Universe; only thing is a thirst for seeking the Truth; I have been influenced with so many other Thinkers as well ; but my  Path is unique  

Synthesis of Many.

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New Episode! "The Subtle Energetic Interchange That Takes Place at a Subliminal Level"

reference:
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, The Hidden Forces of Life , Ch. 1 Life Through the Eyes of the Yogin,…

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7 hours ago — Opinion. A Fatherhood More Equal? In exalting Gandhi, we've elbowed Sri Aurobindo into the shadows. Advertisement. F. Francois Gautier. February 5, 2022.

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The Myth of the Theons: Constructing and Deconstructing the Image of Two European Occultists

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… One person who discovered the Revue Cosmique in 1904 was Mirra Alfassa, a young Paris-born artist who toward the end of that year met Louis Thémanlys, a friend of her brother, who was in contact with the Theons and a reader of the Revue …… Years later, after she had become the Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, she related some anecdotes about the Theons to students of the Ashram school and to a close disciple. These stories first appeared in print in collections of talks published …

The reputations of Eliezer Mordechai Bimstein and Mary Ware (aka Theon and Madame Theon) as master occultists took shape during their lifetimes in the absence of accurate biographical information. Best known as leaders of the Cosmic Movement, which attracted a number of adherents during the first decade of the twentieth century, they each had an interesting backstory, Bimstein as a worker in the tobacco trade, then co-founder of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, Ware as Mother Superior of a convent, then poet, actress, and lecturer on occult themes. Their teachings, published in the Revue Cosmique and Tradition Cosmique, influenced such people as Louis Thémanlys and Mirra Alfassa, later the Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Biographical material on Bimstein and Ware, brought to light by recent scholars, has led to a deconstruction of the myth of the Theons but this does not necessarily detract from the interest of their writings. 

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