The Mother was born in France because at that time France was the hub of intellectual and artistic renaissance in the Age of rational enlightenment just as Greece was before that. France completed what Greece initiated. It was the Age of Europe. India was on the decline and had touched rock bottom in the late nineteenth century. That’s when the Mother and Sri Aurobindo came to shift the centre of power from Europe to Asia with India as the hub of the spiritual renaissance. But for that both needed to gather what was the best that the intellect Age could give and carry it from the ship of Europe that was slowly sinking to the ship of Asia that was destined to rise. Hence the shift of the Divine Shakti from Europe to Asia symbolically marking the change.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
