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Om Namo Bhagavate Sri Aurobindaya
Life Sketch of Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo, Yogi, Poet, Philosopher, Social and Political thinker was born in Kolkata on August 15, 1872. He was educated from his seventh to his twenty first year in England, first at St. Paul’s School, London, and then at King’s College, Cambridge. He had mastered Greek and Latin, English and French and had also acquired some familiarity with continual languages like German and Italian.
Sri Aurobindo returned to India in 1893 and spent thirteen years in Baroda State Service. During this period he acquired a mastery of Sanskrit, learnt other Indian languages and made a deep study of both the political problems of India and its cultural tradition. In 1906 he came to Bengal and began open political activities, his journal Bande Mataram becoming the most powerful voice in India’s early freedom movement. In 1908 he was arrested and went through a year’s under trial detention in jail.
He carried on his revolutionary work till 1910 when in response to an inner call he left the politics and withdrew to Pondicherry in French India to continue a concentrated practice of Yoga. Having gathered all essential truths of past spiritual experiences, he worked for a more complete realisation which would transform and divinise life. To this search he devoted his last forty years.
In 1914, after four years of silent yoga, he started the Philosophical monthly, Arya, though which he reveled his new message for humanity: man’s divine destiny (The Life Divine), the path to its realisation (The Synthesis of Yoga), the progress of human society towards a divine future (The ideal of Human Cycle), the realisation of the oneness of mankind (The ideal of Human Unity), the inner meaning and significance of Indian spirituality and civilisation (The Foundations of Indian Culture, On the Vedas, The Upanishads, Essays on the Gita), the nature and evolution of: Poetry (The Future Poetry). His supreme work in Poetry is Savitry. A Legend and a Symbol. an epic of nearly 24,000 lines in blank verse.
On March 29, 1914 Mira Richard known as The Mother met Sri Aurobindo.
On November 24, 1926 Sri Aurobindo received and brought down the decent of the Overmind in the physical. This day known as ‘the day of the Siddhi’.
Bhagabat Sri Aurobindo left his physical body on 5th December, 1950. He retired physically ‘obviously to work things out,’ that is trying to get the Supermind down into the material.
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