…the Ashram was founded or rather founded itself in 1926.
The Ashram is the Mother’s creation and would not have existed but for her.
The Ashram was born a few years after my return from Japan, in 1926.
There was no Ashram at first, only a few people came to live near Sri Aurobindo and practice Yoga. It was only sometime after the Mother came from Japan that it took the form of the Ashram, more from the wish of the sadhaks who desired to entrust their whole inner and outer life to the Mother than from any intention or plan of hers or of Sri Aurobindo.
Sri Aurobindo
Autobiographical Notes and Other Writings of Historical Interest: The Development of the Ashram
[In 1926] Sri Aurobindo had given me charge of the outer work because he wanted to withdraw into concentration in order to hasten the manifestation of the Supramental consciousness and he had announced to the few people who were there that he was entrusting to me the work of helping and guiding them, that I would remain in contact with him, naturally, and that through me he would do the work.
The Mother
Questions and Answers (1957-1958): 10 July 1957
The Ashram itself has been created with another object than that ordinarily common to such institutions, not for the renunciation of the world but as a centre and a field of practice for the evolution of another kind and form of life which would in the final end be moved by a higher spiritual consciousness and embody a greater life of the spirit.
Letters on Himself and the Ashram: The Purpose of the Ashram
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