Blanche Rachel Mirra Alfassa - The Mother

Mirra Alfassa (21 February 1878 – 17 November 1973), known to her followers as The Mother, was a spiritual guru, an occultist and a collaborator of Sri Aurobindo. Aurobindo 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 Auroville an experimental township with no barrier and as a universal town, was an influence and inspiration to many writers and gurus on the subject of Integral Yoga.