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Sri Aurobindo
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About Sri Aurobindo
Full Name | Aurobindo Ghose |
Birth Date | 15 August 1872 |
Birth Place | Calcutta (now Kolkata, West Bengal, India) |
Primary Education | University of Cambridge |
Father | Krishna Dhun Ghose |
Mother | Swarnalata Devi |
Religion | Hindu |
Nationality | Indian |
Famous for | Integral Yoga |
Literary Works | The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, Savitri |
Died on | 5 December 1950 |
Introduction
Imagine a world full of ideas about how people can live with freedom and what it means to live without restrictions. In a world full of ideas, when many people wanted their country to be free, then a man named Sri Aurobindo was born. When he was young, he wanted his country, India, to be free from the control of others, especially England.
Aurobindo had great ideas for the independence of the country. He was filled with love for his country and curiosity about how people feel inside when they are under the rule of others. That's why h
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Sri Aurobindo – Biography
Sri Aurobindo was a revolutionary, poet, philosopher, writer, and Spiritual Master. Despite his fascinating life he was sceptical of any biographies saying
‘ No one can write about my life because it has not been on the surface for man to see.’ – Sri Aurobindo from: On Himself
Yet his writings and outer life give a profound glimpse into the life of this unique spiritual mästare. Sri Aurobindo paved a new approach to yoga, which he termed ‘Integral Yoga’. Unlike the Yogi’s of old he felt yoga and spirituality need not involve retreating from the world. Sri Aurobindo wished to bring the Divine into all aspects of life. For the last 40 years of his life he worked tirelessly for this goal of bringing down a new spiritual consciousness.
“We are Sons of God and must be even as He.”
– Sri Aurobindo
Early Life – Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo Ghosh was born on 15th August 1872, to an Anglicised
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Sri Aurobindo - His Life Unique
Sri Aurobindo in Baroda
"These are they who are conscious of the much falsehood in the world; they grow in the house of Truth, they are strong and invincible sons of Infinity.”
— Rigveda, VII.605
1893 - a memorable year! It was in 1893 that Sri Aurobindo came back from England to fight for the freedom of India and release her imprisoned godhead, and Vivekananda sailed for America carrying with him the light of the Vedanta to the benighted humanity of the West. What was Sri Aurobindo thinking, what were his feelings as he came in sight of his beloved motherland? When he had left India, he was a mere child of seven, perhaps unaware of the heavenly fire smouldering beneath his sweet, angelic exterior. And when he returned, he was a young man of twenty-one, burning to realise his dreams and visions. These fourteen years, the most impressionable and formative part of his life, were spent in the West in the heyday of its scientific civili