Madame Gaebele : Yvonne Robert Gaebele (1888-1974?), wife of Jean Henri’s son Robert, & a devotee of Mother who gave her the name Suvratā (who upholds her vows). As Librarian & Archivist of Pondicherry she wrote several books including Histoire de Pondichéry, published in 1960; she was also President of the Commission for Historical Monuments, President of the History Society, Laureate of the French Academy, & Chevalier de Legion d’Honeur. She returned to France in 1972.
... offing, there would be almost a retirement for a week or so. The Mother doesn't care for a spirituality which is full of fear. I remember we had a French class taken by a very kind French lady, Madame Gaebele, whose Ashram name is Suvrata, and once at the end of a course she invited all her students to her place for tea, cakes, ice-cream and such things. I was very trepidant: "Should I go? Should I ...
... Sri Aurobindo took a bath with this water. [Champaklal's note] × Name given by Sri Aurobindo to Madame Gaebele, a French disciple. ...
... taught me Mathematics and Geography (Oh, God! how I hated those subjects!) – I forget their French family names – Sri Aurobindo gave them Suchi and Sarala as their names of the spiritual life. Madame Gaebele, the mother of my French teacher, was renamed Suvrata. Being childish and imitative by temperament, I asked for my name to be changed as well. The Master wrote that Rama – Indra – Ramendra was ...
... tell-tale names to the flowers. Just as Philippe Barbier de St.-Hilaire became "Pavitra", K. D. Sethna "Amal Kiran", Miss Hodgson "Datta", J. A. Chadwick "Arjava", Jenny Dobson "Chidanandini", Madame Yvonne Gaebele "Suvrata", Mehdi Begum "Chinmayi", Janet McPheeters "Shantimayi", and Miss Margaret Wilson "Nishtha", even so the flowers also - almost without exception - received , nāmakaranam at the ...
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