Context
- Prime Minister of India is heading an extensive 53-member committee that has been set up to mark the 150th birth anniversary of spiritual leader Sri Aurobindo.
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About Aurobindo Ghose
- He is popularly known as yogi Rishi Aurobindo.
- It was a revolutionary, nationalist, poet, educationist and philosopher.
- Birth: He was born on August 15, 1872, in Calcutta to Shri Krishnadhan Ghosh.
- His father was a rich doctor from Calcutta.
- Early life and Education: At the age of seven he was taken to England for education.
- There he studied at St. Paul’s School, London, and at King’s College, Cambridge
- Roles played as a
- Service officer and professor:
- He became a state service officer on his return to India in 1893.
- He worked for the next thirteen years in the Princely State of Baroda in the service of the Maharaja and as a professor at Baroda College.
- He became a state service officer on his return to India in 1893.
- Revolutionary:
- He also joined a revolutionary society and took a leading role in secret preparations for an uprising against the British Government in India.
- Service officer and professor:
- In 1906, soon after the Partition of Bengal, Sri Aurobindo quit his post in Baroda and went to Calcutta, where he soon became one of the leaders of the Nationalist movement.
- He was the first political leader in India to openly put forward, in his newspaper Bande Mataram, the idea of complete independence for the country.
- Prosecuted twice for sedition and once for conspiracy, he was released each time for lack of evidence.
- Yogi :
- He had begun the practice of Yoga in 1905 in Baroda.
- In 1908 he had the first of several fundamental spiritual realisations.
- In 1910 he withdrew from politics and went to Pondicherry in order to devote himself entirely to his inner spiritual life and work.
- During his forty years in Pondicherry, he evolved a new method of spiritual practice, which he called the Integral Yoga.
- Its aim is a spiritual realisation that not only liberates man’s consciousness but also transforms his nature.
- In 1926, with the help of his spiritual collaborator, the Mother, he founded the Sri Aurobindo Ashram.
- He had begun the practice of Yoga in 1905 in Baroda.
- Literary works:
- He was also a journalist and his first philosophical magazine called Arya was published in 1914.
- Among his many writings are The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga and Savitri.
- He was also a journalist and his first philosophical magazine called Arya was published in 1914.
- Teachings:
- He propounded a philosophy of divine life on earth through spiritual evolution.
- Death: Aurobindo Ghose died on December 5, 1950.
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