Quotes Mirra Alfassa – The Mother

Mirra Alfassa (21 February 1878 – 17 November 1973), known to her followers as The Mother, was the spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo. Her full name at birth was Blanche Rachel Mirra Alfassa. Sri Aurobindo considered her an incarnation of the Mother Divine and called her by that name: “The Mother”. On November 24, 1926 later declared as Siddhi day (victory day) and still celebrated by Sri Aurobindo Ashram [31] as Mirra and Aurobindo claimed that overmind Consciousness had manifested directly on earth allowing the possibility for Human consciousness to be directly aware and be in the overmind consciousness.

Let all circumstances, all happenings in life be occasions, constantly renewed for learning more and ever more.

The flame of the aspiration must be so straight and so ardent that no obstacle can dissolve it.

Let nothing short of Perfection be your ideal in work and you are sure to become a true instrument of the Divine.

What people think, do or say is of little importance. The only thing that counts is your relation with the Divine.

Lord, how I would be before Thee always like a page perfectly blank, so that Thy will may be inscribed in me without any difficulty or mixture.