The Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Patrick Beldio

doi:10.5771/9781793624277

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Copyright year: 2025
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-2426-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-2427-7
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 408
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
4. Preface: The Divine Mother and the MenWho Revealed Her to Me No access
Introduction: State of the Field and MyComparative Theological Method No access Pages 1 - 44
1. 1. Assessing Childhood Trauma No access
  2. Loss and Recovery of Self in Prison No access
  3. The Influence of Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda No access
  4. Constructing a New Cosmic Matrimandir No access
  5. Mrinalini Bose No access
  6. “A Way to Be Opened” No access
  7. Conclusion No access
  8. Notes No access
2. 1. Mirra’s Vocation No access
  2. Universal Child No access
  3. Material Liberation through Suffering No access
  4. Mirra’s Son, André No access
  5. The Influence of the Theons No access
  6. Mirra’s Discovery No access
  7. Becoming the Mother, Aurobindo’s Dualité No access
  8. Models of Spiritual Consorts No access
  9. Conclusion No access
  10. Notes No access
3. 1. Integral Motherhood and Childhood No access
  2. Four Powers for a New Being No access
  3. Mirra’s Experience of Sexual and Gender Identity No access
  4. Androgyny, Sexuality, and Yoga No access
  5. Imagining the New Being No access
  6. Conclusion No access
  7. Notes No access
1. 1. “Yoga Advaita” and Manonāśa No access
  2. Contemporary Proponents of Manonāśa No access
  3. Mirra’s Two Manonāśas No access
  4. The Psychic Being No access
  5. A New Destiny for the Mind, Life, and Body No access
  6. Methods of Descendant Manonāśa No access
  7. Universal Scope of Work No access
  8. Conclusion No access
  9. Notes No access
2. 1. The Law of Reaction No access
  2. Mirra’s Western Esoteric Influences No access
  3. The Reaction of the Mind and Vital No access
  4. Progress through Healing and Disease No access
  5. 1. Skeptical Theism No access
    2. From a “Saint-Making” to “God-Realizing” Theodicy No access
    3. Panentheistic Metaphysics of Vijñāna No access
    4. The Continuity of Growth through the Psychic Entity No access
    5. Sri Aurobindo and the Law of Reaction No access
  6. Conclusion No access
  7. Notes No access
3. 1. Taking Stock of the Universal Mother’s Work No access
  2. 1. Aesthetic Use of the Arts No access
    2. Moral and Intellectual Use of the Arts No access
    3. Spiritual Use of the Arts No access
  3. 1. Hospice for the Mind, Neonatal Care for the Supermind No access
  4. 1. 1. Training Huta in the Characteristics of the Future Painting No access
      2. “Meditations on Savitri” No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
4. 1. 1. Sri Aurobindo and the Ascendant Path No access
    2. Aurobindo and World-Affirming Strategies No access
    3. Mirra, the Ascendant Path, and World Affirming Strategies No access
  2. Upasni Maharaj, Perfect Master of the Ascendant Path No access
  3. 1. The Universal Context Of Brahmā’s Lifetime No access
    2. The Local Context of Mirra’s Body No access
  4. The Role of Disease and Disequilibrium for Progressive Health and Equilibrium No access
  5. The Cells Begin to Pray No access
  6. Conclusion No access
  7. Notes No access
1. A Brief Review No access
2. 1. “Aurobindo’s Arya Period writings constitute the fullness of the Integral Yoga’s revelation or ‘deposit of faith’”13 No access
  2. “Aurobindo’s Arya Period writings contain the fullest developed formulation of Supermind” No access
  3. “Mirra’s life and teachings primarily restate the ideas of the Arya Period writings” No access
  4. “The ‘Manifestation of the Supermind upon Earth’ is primarily, and even solely revealed by Mirra and Aurobindo and their Integral Yoga” No access
3. 1. The mature expression of Mirra’s and Aurobindo’s revelation is the Descendant Manonāśa Period of the Integral Yoga, not the Arya Period No access
  2. The Descendant Manonāśa Period contains the most detailed descriptions of the Supermind based on Mirra’s intimate experiences of it in the cells of her body as her mental and vital natures “took a hike” No access
  3. Mirra’s experience, writings, and work deserve to be considered on their own terms No access
  4. The Integral Yoga’s revelation is unique, but it is not alone No access
4. Notes No access
Appendix A: Timeline No access Pages 367 - 370
1. The Ascendant Spirituality Period (1890–1921) No access
2. The Descendant Spirituality Period (1920–1973) No access
3. Note No access
Bibliography No access Pages 375 - 398
Index No access Pages 399 - 406
About the Author No access Pages 407 - 408