Sri aurobindo: Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo Sri Aurobindo, original name Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo (born 15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950) was an Indian philosopher, yogi, guru, poet, and nationalist. He joined the Indian movement for independence from British rule, for a while was one of its influential leaders and then became a spiritual reformer, introducing his visualisations on human development and spiritual evolution. Sri Aurobindo studied for the Indian Civil Service at Cambridge. After returning to India ... Sri Aurobindo's LifeThe following passages are excerpted from Volume 30, SABCL, p.1-6. Sri Aurobindo was born in Calcutta on 15 August, 1872. In 1879, at the age of seven, he was taken with his two elder brothers to England for education and lived there for fourteen years. Brought up at first in an English family at Manchester, he joined St. Paul's School in London in 1884 and in 1890 went from it with a senior classical scholarship to King's College, Cambridge, where he studied for two ... After returning to India, he took up various civil service works under the Maharaja of the princely state of Baroda. He became increasingly involved in nationalist politics in the Indian National Congress and the nascent revolutionary movement in Bengal with the Anushilan Samiti. Sri Aurobindo (Śrī Aurobindo) (1872-1950) was a philosopher, scholar, poet, and Nobel peace prize nominee who was a significant figure in the Indian independence movement. It was his spiritual life and unconventional approach to yoga