Well, there are multiple videos on the Mother available on this Auromaa channel. But for our immediate purposes we can say that the one whom we call as the Mother was a mystic and Yogi born in France and named Mirra Alfassa. An adept in the Buddhist Yoga and the Yoga of the Gita, she had profound spiritual realisations as well as a deep and many-sided occult knowledge before she came to India to meet another great Yogi and mystic Sri Aurobindo. She eventually settled down there, in Pondicherry, India where, along with Sri Aurobindo they developed and perfected the Integral Yoga whose immediate goal is to transform the individual and collective life and the far reaching aim of perfecting earthly life into a Divine Life in a Divine Body. Their works and teachings are widely known, the essence of which can be given in her own words as below.
‘There is an ascending evolution in nature which goes from the stone to the plant, from the plant to the animal, from the animal to man. Because man is, for the moment, the last rung at the summit of the ascending evolution, he considers himself as the final stage in this ascension and believes there can be nothing on earth superior to him. In that he is mistaken. In his physical nature he is yet almost wholly an animal, a thinking and speaking animal, but still an animal in his material habits and instincts. Undoubtedly, nature cannot be satisfied with such an imperfect result; she endeavours to bring out a being who will be to man what man is to the animal, a being who will remain a man in its external form, and yet whose consciousness will rise far above the mental and its slavery to ignorance.
Sri Aurobindo came upon earth to teach this truth to men. He told them that man is only a transitional being living in a mental consciousness, but with the possibility of acquiring a new consciousness, the Truth-consciousness, and capable of living a life perfectly harmonious, good and beautiful, happy and fully conscious. During the whole of his life upon earth, Sri Aurobindo gave all his time to establish in himself this consciousness he called supramental, and to help those gathered around him to realise it.’
