Mirra Alfassa

"Yes, indeed, I do feel the weight of the worlds miseries pressing upon me!"

"There were no monks and ascetics here, no idols, recitations, devotional chanting and other forms of traditional Indian Ashram life. When we got into the building, we saw a number of people, all in simple and neat dresses, and some even in pants and coats, but no saints or sannyasis, no monks or mahants, no shaven heads … no preaching or prayers, no siksha or sermons."

"… a means by which the sadhak might receive something from the Mother by an interchange in the material consciousness."

"I dont 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."

"… after a months yoga I looked exactly eighteen. And someone who had seen me before, who had lived with me in Japan and came here, found it difficult to recognize me. He asked me, "But really, is it you?" I said, "Of course!"

"Not once do you have the feeling that you are in contact with something other than a marvellously organised mental-physical domain."

"Auroville (City of Dawn) is an experimental township in South India whose stated purpose is to realize human unity in diversity. It is a popular tourist destination, and has been described as a New Age metropolis conceived as an alternative exercise in ecological and spiritual living."

"Between the ages of 11 and 13 a series of psychic and spiritual experiences revealed to me not only the existence of God, but mans possibility of uniting with Him, of realising Him integrally in consciousness and action, of manifesting Him upon earth in a life divine. This, along with a practical discipline for its fulfilment, was given to me during my bodys sleep by several teachers, some of whom I met afterwards on the physical plane. Later on, as the interior and exterior development proceeded, the spiritual and psychic relation with one of these Beings became more and more clear and frequent."

"During those early days, she herself used to prepare a pudding. Of that pudding she would put aside a small quantity in a small dish; she would add a little milk to it and stir it with a spoon till it became liquid and consistent. She showed me how to do it and was particular that no grains should be left unmashed … And do you know for whom this part of the pudding was meant? For cats. Later on I learnt that they were not really cats but something more."

"In her gait there was majesty, in her face a glowing grace and her eyes flashed gleams that pierced the darkness below and around. My gaze was fixed at the fairy-like figure whose beautiful face was radiating light and making the whole atmosphere so supernatural that she looked every inch an angel descending from Heaven."