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For Mirra Alfassa, partner of Sri Aurobindo, see The Mother.
Mother Meera, born Kamala Reddy (b. 26 December, 1960) is believed by her devotees to be a living incarnation of Adiparashakti, an avatar of the primordial Divine Mother.
Life account
Born in Chandepalle a small town in Nalgonda district of Andhra Pradesh,India, she had her first Samadhi at the age of six, which lasted for a whole day. When she was 12 her uncle Bulgur Venkat Reddy met her for the first time, and immediately recognized in her the girl of his visions. He became convinced that she is the Divine Mother and started to take care of her, allowing her to unfold her inner experiences.
At 1974, Mr. Reddy brought her to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India, of which he was a member. There Mother Meera first met Westerners and started to give Darshan. In 1979 she was invited by the first devotees to Canada, where she went several times. Meanwhile Reddy's health started to deteriorate.
In 1981 she made her first trip to West Germany, where she together with Mr. Reddy and her close companion Adilakshmi settled down a year later and married a German in 1982. Reddy died in 1985 and was buried in the local cemetery in Dornburg-Thalheim, Hesse. Currently she gives Darshan (literally seeing, primarily in a spiritual context) at Schloss Schaumburg in Balduinstein, a small town in Germany.
Activities
Mother Meera receives many thousands of visitors of all religions for darshan which she conducts in total silence. Her darshan consists of a ritual, where she will touch a persons head, and then look into his eyes. During this process, she reportedly 'unties knots' in the persons subtle system and permeates him with light. She doesn't charge any money for doing so and she will not give lectures.
She says in her book Answers, Part I, "Like electricity, the Light is everywhere, but one must know how to activate it. I have come for that."
Mother Meera's reported task on Earth was the bringing down of the 'Paramatman Light' (lit. the Light of the supreme Self), which she describes as a dynamic light of the Divine, making spiritual progress on earth more easy. Through Japa, the mental remembrance of any Divine Name or Mantra, which may be done informally, and whenever convenient, people could open themselves up to this Light. She does not claim to be a guru or have followers. To be connected to her work, people do not have to recognize her. Her teaching is mainly related to Bhakti, that is devotion to God, and in that she accepts all denominations.
Mother Meera does not belong to any particular tradition, except for a certain closeness to the work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, whom she had allegedly met in their subtle bodies, when she was a child, visiting their Samadhi.
Critics
After splitting from Mother Meera, the writer and former follower Andrew Harvey wrote The Sun at Midnight. In it, Harvey accused Meera of homophobia and of placing a curse on him which, he alleges, manifested itself as a severe depression. He further claims that Mother Meera did this because she disapproved of Harvey's marriage to another man. Mother Meera disputes being homophobic as well as the other claims made in the book. In his first book about her, Hidden Journey, Harvey had originally praised her as an avatar, attributing his own enlightenment to her. Harvey's accusation of homophobia is perhaps somewhat weakened by the assertion of one of Harvey's former lovers, the writer Mark Matousek (1997), that the two of them were served breakfast in bed together in Mother Meera's house.
Quotes
"One common mistake is to think that one reality is the reality. You must always be prepared to leave one reality for a greater one." - Answers, Part I
Books
- Answers, Part I - by Mother Meera, ISBN 096229733-x
- Answers, Part II - by Mother Meera, ISBN 3-98054755-8
- The Mother - by Adilakshmi, ISBN 3-00-000241-3
- Sex Death Enlightenment - Mark Matousek (1997), Riverhead books, ISBN 1573225819