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Sri Aurobindo

Indian philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet and nationalist (1872–1950)

For the pharmaceutical company, see Aurobindo Pharma.

Sri Aurobindo
Aurobindo, c. 1900
Born	Aurobindo Ghose (1872-08-15)15 August 1872 Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India (present-day Kolkata, West Bengal, India)
Died	5 December 1950(1950-12-05) (aged 78) Pondicherry, French India (present-day Pondicherry, Puducherry, India)
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Relatives	Rajnarayan Basu (maternal-grandfather) Manmohan Ghose (brother) Barindra Kumar Ghose (brother)^[1]
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Religion	Hindu
Founder of	Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Philosophy
Disciples Champaklal, Nolini Kanta Gupta, Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya, K. D. Sethna, Nirodbaran, Pavitra, M. P. Pandit, A.B. Purani, Dilipkumar Roy, Satprem, Indra Sen

Quotation

Matter shall reveal the Spirit's face / All Life is Yoga.^[2]

Sri Aurobindo (born Aurobindo Ghose; 15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950) was an I

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Biography Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo was born in India 15th August 1872. From an early age he was educated in England at St Paul’s school and then Kings College Cambridge. Abrilliant scholar the young Aurobindo had the opportunity to take a prestigious position in the Civil Service. However during his university years he became increasingly committed to the ideal of Indian Independence so turned down the opportunity. ON returning to India he became increasingly influential in the Indian independence struggle. In 1909 Aurobindo was arrested on a charge of sedition for his alleged role in the Alipor Bomb plot. It was whilst in jail that Aurobindo underwent profound spiritual realisations became aware of Vasudeva “God” in everything. Receiving spiritual instruction from Sri Krishna and Swami Vivekananda he followed his inner Command or “Adesh” to withdraw from politics.

Thus after being dramatically acquitted by his good friend and lawyer C.R.Das Aurobindo moved to the French province of Pondicherry where over time he built up a spiritual community or

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Sri Aurobindo

Collected Plays and
Short Stories

Part One

Note on this e-publication

During the history of publication of Sri Aurobindo’s works, their texts were modified here and there – sometimes by elementary misprints, but more often because of the hard work of editors, who:

(1) discovered and encrypted unprinted manuscripts or their parts (this was a best part of what they could do);

(2) corrected previous misprints or unsound modifications (a sound part of their work);

(3) corrected Sri Aurobondo’s factual or grammatical inexactnesses or mistakes or grammatical characteristics (i.e. s / z) (what would be appropriate only in footnotes, but not in the textitself);

(4) made innumerable “improvements” of the texts, when original words were replaced by more “appropriate” ones; articles changed most freely; the tenses of verbs and the singular and plural of nouns were often modified (and all these “improvements” deform in some degree – even if in hardly notable – the meaning, intonation, nuance, manner, style and therefore are inadmissible; and,