Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Patrick Beldio is visiting assistant professor of the Theology/Religion department at the University of Scranton.

• AcknowledgementsPreface: The Divine Mother & The Men Who Revealed Her to MeIntroduction: State of the Field and My Comparative Theological MethodPart I: Sri Aurobindo, The Mother, and the New BeingChapter 1: Divine Madness: Sri Aurobindo’s Intellectual and Spiritual DevelopmentChapter 2: Spiritual Dualité: Mirra Joins Aurobindo to Universalize SupermindChapter 3: The New Being: Mirra’s and Aurobindo’s Posthuman Ideal of WholenessPart II: The Four Personalities of MahasaktiChapter 4: The Wisdom of Mahesvari: Mental Annihilation and the Integral YogaChapter 5: The Strength of Mahakali: Progress through Opposition in the Integral YogaChapter 6: The Harmony of Mahalak?mi: The Yoke of Beauty and Love in the Integral YogaChapter 7: The Perfection of Mahasarasvati: The Integral Yoga as a Descendant Path to God RealizationConclusion: Divine Revelation Across Creation and HistoryAppendix 1: TimelineAppendix 2: Two Periods of Mirra’s and Aurobindo’s Written and Creative Production BibliographyAbout the Author

Patrick Beldio’s creative and pioneering study, The Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram: Co-Creator of the Integral Yoga, examines the various ways that Mirra Alfassa helped to shape, and further develop, the Integral Yoga tradition inaugurated by Sri Aurobindo. Combining scholarly acumen with a disarmingly personal approach, the book breaks new ground in our understanding of the spiritual and philosophical contours of Integral Yoga and provides an urgently needed corrective to the tendency in scholarship to emphasize Aurobindo at the expense of the Mother.