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the work is finished. If we put the name ["Mira"], it means this
body.

The Mother: Conversation with a disciple: 7 October 1970

I don’t know your first name.

My first name is Mira (in the birth certificate it is written with
two ‘r’s — Mirra, but it doesn’t matter).
New Correspondence vol. 2: p. 29

You are quite right when you say that your sadhana will not
open through the mind but through your psychic being. It is
from there indeed that these guiding intuitions come.
Your intuition that in your case the effective impulse can
best come from Mira (you can call her Mira Devi if you like, but
please don't call her Madame!) is also perfectly correct. When
she saw you from the window on the terrace on your last visit,
she herself said to A.G., “This is a man I can change. But he is
not yet ready”. But it was your mind that interfered when you
thought it was necessary to sit in meditation with her in order
to receive what she has to give. There is no such condition for
her spiritual or psychic action and influence.
CWSA 36: 328-29

Sri Aurobindo and the Mother
Also it will be a mistake if you make too rigid a separation
between A.G and Mira. Both influences are necessary for the
complete development of the sadhana. The work of the two
together can alone bring down the supramental Truth into the
physical plane. A.G acts directly on the mental and on the vital
being through the illumined mind; he represents the Purusha el-

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