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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. Mirra Alfassa (Mother) was born in Paris in 1878 to a Sephardi Jewish bourgeois family. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mirra Alfassa has received more than 1,104,753 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Mirra Alfassa is the 2,598th most popular writer (up from 2,735th in 2019), the 2,793rd most popular biography from France (up from 2,800th in 2019) and the 350th most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mirra Alfassa ranks 2,598 out of 5,755Before her are Seichō Matsumoto, Guan Hanqing, Lois Lowry, Anton Bernolák, Lois McMaster Bujold, and Michele Ruggieri. After her are Martin Walser, K. Shivaram Karanth, Antiochus Kantemir, Herman Gorter, Leonard Woolf, and George Mosse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Mirra Alfassa ranks 92Before her are Charles Joughin, Michel Théato, Theodoros Pangalos, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Tullio Serafin, and Kurt Goldstein. After her are Mikhail Artsybashev, Sadri Maksudi Arsal, Lillian Moller Gilbreth, Otto Freundlich, Louis Camille Maillard, and Georgios Kondylis. Among people deceased in 1973, Mirra Alfassa ranks 107Before her are Walter Krüger, Archduchess Isabella of Austria, Gabriel Voisin, Lorenzo Fernández, Vilhelm Moberg, and Robert Watson-Watt. After her are Laurens Hammond, Alexander Mosolov, Dean Corll, Alexander Vandegrift, Joseph Szigeti, and Karel Ančerl.

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In France

Among people born in France, Mirra Alfassa ranks 2,793 out of 6,011Before her are Anne Jules de Noailles (1650), Pierre Wantzel (1814), Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (1788), Louis de Beaufront (1855), Alexandre Deschapelles (1780), and Maurizio Galbaio (800). After her are Auguste Vaillant (1861), Robert Casadesus (1899), François-Henri Pinault (1962), Albert Girard (1595), John Charles, Count Palatine of Gelnhausen (1638), and Bernadette Chirac (1933).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Mirra Alfassa ranks 350Before her are Benoît de Sainte-Maure (1154), Renaud Camus (1946), André Salmon (1881), Jean Lorrain (1855), Oscar Cullmann (1902), and Gustave Kahn (1859). After her are Sylvain Maréchal (1750), Gustave Aimard (1818), Emmanuel Carrère (1957), Jules Guesde (1845), Hilaire Belloc (1870), and Pascal Bruckner (1948).