SRI AUROBINDO

SRI AUROBINDO

TOPIC: History

Context- The government is committed to expanding Auroville into a ‘city’ in line with the existing Master Plan, amidst reaffirmed support to the experimental township during the first Auroville Festival to mark the 150th birth anniversary year of Sri Aurobindo.

Concept-

About Sri Aurobindo:

• AurobindoGhose was born in Calcutta on 15th August 1872.
• He was a yogi, seer, philosopher, poet, and Indian nationalist who propounded a philosophy of divine life on earth through spiritual evolution.
• He died on 5th December 1950 in Pondicherry.

Indian Revolutionary Movement:

• From 1902 to 1910 he partook in the struggle to free India from the British. As a result of his political activities, he was imprisoned in 1908 (AliporeBomb case).
• Two years later he fled British India and found refuge in the French colony of Pondichéry.

Religion & Spirituality:

• At Pondicherry, Sri Aurobindo developed a spiritual practice he called Integral Yoga.
• In 1926, with the help of his spiritual collaborator, MirraAlfassa (referred to as “The Mother”), Sri Aurobindo Ashram was founded.
• He believed that the basic principles of matter, life, and mind would be succeeded through terrestrial evolution by the principle of supermind as an intermediate power between the two spheres of the infinite and the finite.

Literary Works:

• An English newspaper called BandeMataram (in 1905).
• The Life Divine
• Synthesis of Yoga
• Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
• Bhagavad Gita and Its Message
• The Future Evolution of Man
• Rebirth and Karma
• Hour of God