| Name(s) |
SRI AUROBINDO
(Birth Name: Aurobindo Ghosh) |
| Date of
Birth |
August 15, 1872
- in Calcutta, West Bengal, India. |
| Date of
Death |
December 05, 1950 |
|
Identity |
Indian nationalist, freedom
fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and
poet. |
|
Date-wise Events / Works |
- May 1908 - He was arrested again in
connection with the Alipore Bomb Case.
- March 29, 1914 - Mirra Alfassa Richard
(The mother) Along with her husband, Paul Richard, came to
Pondicherry on this day and finally settled there in 1920.
- November 24, 1926 - He attained "purna
siddhi" (full enlightenment) at Pondicherry. The Sri
Aurobindo Ashram was founded on this day, and he left it to
Mirra to plan, build and run the ashram.
- 1943 - He was nominated for the Nobel
Prize in Literature.
- 1950 - He was nominated for the Nobel
Peace Prize.
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Other Events &
Developments |
- He was imparted western style
education by his well educated
parents.
- Despite the fact that he was
meritorius student and also got
scholarship for pursuing his ICS
examinations in England, but
suddenly it came to his mind that he
did not want to serve the British;
so he intentionally failed to pass
out the exams and got disqualified
for the Service. So he returned to
India.
- While working in Baroda, he
published the first of his
collections of poetry, The
Rishi from Baroda.
- He also started taking active
interest in the politics of India's
freedom struggle against British
rule.
- He was not quite satisfied with
the mild approach of the Congress in
its fight for freedom. So he wrote "Our
actual enemy is not any force
exterior to ourselves, but our own
crying weaknesses, our cowardice,
our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our
purblind sentimentalism".
Because of this and the
intimidations from certain quarters,
he lost interest in political
writings and started focussing on
spiritualism and the yoga.
- After the partition of Bengal he
virtually turned into a hard core
revolutionary, starting writing in
Bande Mataram and came to be known
as a hardliner.
- After prolonged British
persecution, he finally announced
his retirement from politics and
moved to Pondicherry, where
Britain's secret police monitored
his apolitical activities.
- In Pondicherry, Sri Aurobindo
completely dedicated himself to his
spiritual and philosophical
pursuits.
- Aurobindo's close spiritual
collaborator, Mirra Richard (b.
Alfassa), came to be known as The
Mother.
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