The author's intention in this biography of The Mother is to examine all available material about her life and to present it in an accessible & interesting way.
The Mother : Biography
It is Georges Van Vrekhem’s intention in this biography of the Mother to examine all available material about her life and to present it in an accessible and interesting way. He attempts to draw the full picture, including the often neglected but important last years of her life, and even of some reincarnations explicitly confirmed by the Mother herself. The Mother was born as Mirra Alfassa in Paris in 1878. She became an artist, married an artist, and participated in the vibrant life of the metropolis during the fin de siècle and early twentieth century. She became the Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram in 1926. This book is a rigorous description of the incredible effort of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo. Their vision is an important perspective allowing for the understanding of what awaits humanity in the new millennium.
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The quotations from works of the Mother are from the Centenary Edition of the Collected Works of the Mother (CWM). The quotations from the works of Sri Aurobindo are from the Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library (SBCL), except for those from his epic Savitri, which are from the revised edition of 1993 (CWSA), or where otherwise indicated.
The -ize and -ization spelling has been used throughout.
The English translations of texts originally spoken or written in French were checked and corrected where it was found to be necessary.
The abbreviations used throughout are CWM for the Collected Works of Mother, and SABCL for the Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library.
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