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Mirra Alfassa

1878 - 1973

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Mirra Alfassa (21 February 1878 – 17 November 1973), known to her followers as The Mother or La Mère, was a French-Indian spiritual guru, occultist and yoga teacher, and a collaborator of Sri Aurobindo, who considered her to be of equal yogic stature to him and called her by the name "The Mother". She founded the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and established the town of Auroville; she was influential on the subject of Integral Yoga. Alfassa was born in Paris in 1878 to a bourgeois Sephardi Jewish family from Turkey. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mirra Alfassa has received more than 1,181,064 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Mirra Alfassa is the 2,653rd most popular writer (down from 2,590th in 2019), the 2,898th most popular biography from France (down from 2,784th in 2019) and the 361st most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mirra Alfassa ranks 2,653 out of 7,302. Before her are Olga Rozanova, Tom Sharpe, John Cheever, Jean Rhys, Alda Merini, and Àngel Guimerà. After her are Stanko Vraz, Polemon I of Pontus, William Goldman, Jim Corbett, Hans Hellmut Kirst, and Valentin Rasputin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Mirra Alfassa ranks 100. Before her are Charles Joughin, Herbert Chapman, Georgios Kondylis, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Stamen Grigorov, and Otto Freundlich. After her are Theodoros Pangalos, Nikolaos Andriakopoulos, Michel Théato, Anna Demidova, Egon Friedell, and Carl Sandburg. Among people deceased in 1973, Mirra Alfassa ranks 116. Before her are Tanzan Ishibashi, Paul van Zeeland, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Noël Coward, Joseph Szigeti, and Salchak Toka. After her are Karel Ančerl, Robert Watson-Watt, Henry Darger, Johannes Aavik, Âşık Veysel, and Grigori Kozintsev.

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In France

Among people born in France, Mirra Alfassa ranks 2,898 out of 6,770. Before her are Bernard Plantapilosa (841), Claude Le Roy (1948), Gérard Blain (1930), Élie, duc Decazes (1780), Jean-Baptiste Debret (1768), and Ferdinand Zecca (1864). After her are Alain Corneau (1943), Jack Lang (1939), René Duguay-Trouin (1673), Guillaume Le Gentil (1725), Daniel Buren (1938), and Petrus Comestor (1100).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Mirra Alfassa ranks 361. Before her are Hilaire Belloc (1870), Théophile de Viau (1590), Menasseh Ben Israel (1604), Paschasius Radbertus (792), Varro Atacinus (-82), and Jules Guesde (1845). After her are Petrus Comestor (1100), Lupus Servatus (805), Jacques Collin de Plancy (1794), Jean-François de La Harpe (1739), Violette Leduc (1907), and Hildebert (1056).

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