SRI AUROBINDO GHOSE - BORN 15 AUGUST 1872

 

HAVE   YOU HEARD OF SRI AUROBINDO ASHRAM IN PONDICHERRY ?  IT WAS FORMED BY THE GREAT YOGI, PHILOSOPHER, POET AND INDIAN NATIONALIST SRI AUROBINDO GHOSE WHO WAS BORN IN BENGALI KAYASTHA FAMILY ON 15 AUGUST 1872 IN KOLKATA.

HIS FATHER BELIEVED BRITISH CULTURE TO BE SUPERIOR AND SENT HIM TO ENGLISH SPEAKING LOVENTO HOUSE BOARDING SCHOOL IN DARJEELING SO THAT HE WOULD JOIN ICS.  HE RANKED 11TH IN THE ICS .

HE JOINED THE INDIAN MOVEMENT FOR INDEPENDENCE FROM BRITISH RULE AND THEN LATER BECAME A SPIRITUAL REFORMER.  HE WAS AN INDIAN NATIONALIST BUT KNOWN FOR HIS PHILOSOPHY ON HUMAN EVOLUTION AND INTEGRAL YOGA.  

HE RETIRED FROM POLITICS AND SETTLED IN PONDICHERY WHERE HE STARTED THE SRI AUROBINDO ASHRAM WITH A SMALL COMMUNITY OF DISCIPLE AND SPENT MOST OF HIS TIME IN WRITING AND MEDITATION,

TODAY PONDICHERY HAS BECOME AN IMPORTANT DESTINATION FOR SPIRITUAL DEVOTEES AS WELL TOURISTS WHO COME FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD TO THIS ASHRAM.  THE AIM OF INTEGRAL YOGA IS TO TRANSFORM HUMAN LIFE TO DIVINE LIFE.  THIS ASHRAM IS A PUBLIC CHARITABLE TRUST OPEN TO ALL IRRESPECTIVE OF CASTE AND CREED AND MANY HAVE BENEFITED FROM THE TEACHINGS OF SRI AUROBINDO ,


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