Recounts Mother's childhood experiences, her training in occultism with Max Théon, her meeting with Sri Aurobindo in 1914, and her work with him until 1950.
The Mother : Biographical
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1878-1950
Mother’s Family
1830 December 18, birth of Mira Pinto (daughter of Said Pinto) in Cairo. Mother’s future grandmother.
1843
Marriage of Mira Pinto to Matteo Ismalun in Alexandria.
July 5, Birth of Maurice Alfassa in Adrianople (Turkey). Mother's future father.
1857
December 18, birth of Mathilde Ismalun in Alexandria.
Mother’s future mother.
1874
Marriage of Mathilde Ismalun to Maurice Alfassa in Alexandria.
1876
July 13, birth of Matteo Alfassa in Alexandria. Mother’s brother.
1877
Arrival of the Alfassas in Paris.
1890
August 28, French naturalization of Maurice Alfassa.
Mother and Sri Aurobindo
1872
August 15, birth of Sri Aurobindo in Calcutta.
1878
February 21, birth of Mother in Paris, 62 boulevard Haussmann.
1879
Departure of Sri Aurobindo for England.
1886-97
Mother lives at 3 square du Roule.
Sri Aurobindo at King’s College, Cambridge. Mother’s first experience: the “Revolution of Atoms.”
1893
Sri Aurobindo returns to India.
First revolutionary article.
1897
October 13, Mother’s marriage to Henri Morisset. Atelier, 15 rue Lemercier.
1898
August 23, birth of Andre Morisset.
1902
Beginning of Sri Aurobindo’s revolutionary activities.
1903
Sri Aurobindo has the experience of the Infinite.
1904
Mother has her first vision of Sri Aurobindo.
Sri Aurobindo begins yoga.
Mother’s first meeting with Max Theon.
1905-06
Voyages to Tlemcen.
1906
Mother founds her first group, Idea.
1907
First arrest of Sri Aurobindo.
1908
Divorce from Henri Morisset.
Mother moves to 49 rue de Levis.
January: Sri Aurobindo meets the tantric yogi Vishnubhaskar Lele. Realization of mental silence and Nirvana.
May 2, the “Alipore Bomb Case”: imprisonment of Sri Aurobindo for one year.
1910
February, Sri Aurobindo escapes to Chandernagor, in French India.
April 4, Sri Aurobindo takes refuge in Pondicherry.
April, Paul Richard’s first visit to Pondicherry.
Mirra marries Paul Richard, 7-9 rue du Vai de Grace.
1911
Beginning of Prayers and Meditations.
1914
March 7, Mother embarks for India aboard the Kaga Maru.
March 29, meeting of Mother and Sri Aurobindo.
August 1, declaration of war.
August 15, first issue of the Arya.
1915
February 22, Mother leaves Pondicherry for France aboard the Kamo Maru.
1916
March 13, Mother embarks at London aboard the Kamo Maru for Japan.
1920
April, Mother leaves Japan.
April 24, arrival in Pondicherry.
November 24, Mother comes to live near Sri Aurobindo in the Guest House.
1921
January, end of the Arya.
1922
October, Sri Aurobindo and Mother take up residence at 9 rue de la Marine, the present Ashram building.
Period of the "Evening Talks."
1922-26
1926
November 24, Sri Aurobindo withdraws.
Official founding of the Ashram.
1927
February 8, Sri Aurobindo moves to a room in the East Wing which He never again left.
1935
August, Sri Aurobindo s “Mathematical Formula.”
October, the Supramental "will explain itself.”
1938
November 24, Sri Aurobindo fractures his right leg.
1939
Sri Aurobindo revises The Life Divine.
September 1, declaration of war.
1943
December 2, beginning of the Ashram School.
1947
August 15, Independence of India.
1949
February 21, beginning of the Bulletin of Physical Education.
1950
November 10, end of Sri Aurobindo’s revision of Savitri.
December 5, Sri Aurobindo leaves his body.
December 9, Sri Aurobindo’s body is placed in the Samadhi.
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