Aurobindo Ghose

·       Aurobindo Ghose also known as Sri Aurobindo was an Indian philosopher, yogi, maharishi, maharishi, poet, and Indian nationalist. He was also a journalist, editing newspapers like Bande Mataram. 

·       He was one of the first Indians educated in England, he studied for the Indian Civil Service at King's College, Cambridge, England. He was born on 15 August 1872 in Kolkata, West Bengal. 

·       He joined the Indian movement for independence from British colonial rule, till 1910 was one of its influential leaders and then became a spiritual reformer, introducing his visions on human progress and spiritual evolution.

·       During the partition of Bengal (1905-1912), he led the group of nationalists. Later, he became the editor of a nationalist Bengal newspaper named Vande Mataram. 

·       At Pondicherry, Sri Aurobindo developed a spiritual practice he called Integral Yoga. The central theme of his vision was the evolution of human life into a divine life in divine body.

·       He believed in a spiritual realisation that not only liberated but transformed human nature, enabling a divine life on earth.

·       In 1926, with the help of his spiritual collaborator, Mirra Alfassa (referred to as "The Mother"), Sri Aurobindo Ashram was founded.

·       His main literary works

Ø  The Life Divine (1919)

Ø  Essays on the Gita (1922)

Ø  Collected Poems and Plays (1942)

Ø  The Synthesis of Yoga (1948) (which deals with the principles and methods of Integral Yoga)

Ø  The Human Cycle (1949)

Ø  The ideal of Human Unity (1949)

Ø  Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol (1950) (an epic poem)

Ø  On the Veda (1956)

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