Mirra Alfassa quotes

Mirra Alfassa was a spiritual leader of French-Egyptian origin, best known as "The Mother" in the teachings of Sri Aurobindo. Her work contributed greatly to the development of the spiritual community at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in India. She inspired many with her vision of human transformation and integral yoga. Here are 13 of her quotes:

Will you shut up now?

Mirra Alfassa

They do not feel bound by the customary rules of conduct and have not yet found an inner law that would replace them.

Mirra Alfassa

I don't feel that you are sincere, neither you nor your flock. You all went there to fulfill a social duty and social custom, but not at all because you really wanted to enter into communion with God.

Mirra Alfassa

It seems to me that I am being born into a new life and that all the methods and habits of the past can no longer be of any use. It seems to me that what was once a result is now only a preparation ... It is as if I was stripped of all my past, of my errors as well as my conquests, as if all that had disappeared to give place to one new-born whose whole existence has yet to take shape ... An immense gratitude rises from my heart. I seem to have at last arrived at the threshold which I have long sought.

Mirra Alfassa

I was lying in an easy-chair, in front of a garden. I saw that the spiritual power was still active in me: I could go on with occult experiments in spite of the illness. I used to concentrate on things and persons and circumstances and wanted to see if the power worked. It worked very well on the mental and vital planes. Then I broadened the field of activity. I could go on doing my work in various parts of France and America and other places. I could clearly see the faces of the persons worked upon. They could be made to do what they by themselves could not. These were controlled experiments ... I could see that nothing could stop the work: even without my body the work could go on ... Wherever the call was, I could attend.

Mirra Alfassa

Japan possesses the vitality and concentrated energies of a nation which has not yet reached its zenith. That energy is one of the most striking features of Japan. It is visible everywhere, in everyone; the old and the young, the workmen, the women, the children, the students, all ... display in their daily life the most wonderful storage of concentrated energy.

Mirra Alfassa

Consciousness, to be sure, is more effective than packets of medicine.

Mirra Alfassa

I took my little cat-it was really sweet -and put it on a table and called Sri Aurobindo. I told him, "Kiki has been stung by a scorpion, it must be cured." The cat stretched its neck and looked at Sri Aurobindo, its eyes already a little glassy. Sri Aurobindo sat before it and looked at it also. Then we saw this little cat gradually beginning to recover, to come round, and an hour later it jumped to its feet and went away completely healed.

Mirra Alfassa

The life we lead here is as far from ascetic abstinence as from an enervating comfort; simplicity is the rule here, but a simplicity full of variety, a variety of occupations, of activities, tasks, tendencies, natures; each one is free to organise his life as he pleases, the discipline is reduced to a minimum that is indispensable to organize the existence of 110 to 120 people and to avoid the movements which would be detrimental to the achievement of our yogic aim.

Mirra Alfassa

Who have undertaken to achieve self-mastery, those who want to find the path that leads to the Divine, and those who aspire to consecrate themselves more and more completely to the Divine Work.

Mirra Alfassa

At the beginning of my present earthly existence I was put into touch with many people who said they had a great inner aspiration, an urge towards something deeper and truer, but were tied down, subjected, slaves of that brutal necessity of earning their living, and that this weighed down upon them so much, took way so much of their time and energy that they could not engage in any other activity, inner or outer. I heard that very often.

Mirra Alfassa