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In the world one of the great scholar was Aurobindo Ghose. He is one of the prominent leader that inspired us. His commitment and hard work throughout his life brings the result of success and a good example for others to follow. In this Blog’s post we shall discuss about Sri Aurobindo life history; and about his contribution to the Indian History; which was highly reflected on his writings such as philosophy, Art and literature, religion etc.
Sri Aurobindo life history
The life of Aurobindo beginning from his birth to till death will briefly be discussed through the following points:
a) Sri Aurobindo’s early childhood:
Aurobindo Ghose was born at 5 am, in Calcutta on the 15th August 1872. He was the third son of Dr. Krishnadhan Ghose and Srimati Swarnalata Devi. He belonged to a Bengali family. But he was not allowed to speak in Bengali and spoke only English or Hindi. His Food, dress and manners followed the English lifestyle.
When he was five years old, he was sent to the Loreto Convent School in Darjeeling. The school was an English medium school; and thus Aurobindo started lisping in English at the age of five years. And also he was profoundly impressed his teachers in Darjeeling school for his intelligence and singular sweetness of his nature.
b) Sri Aurobindo’s boyhood and youth life:
At the age of seven he was sent to England and stayed there for fourteen years. At a very young age, Aurobindo had acquired a very considerable proficiency in the classics and he was therefore able to proceed to King’s College, Cambridge, with a senior classical scholarship of the value of 80% per year. When Aurobindo was just about twenty years old, he had achieved rare academic distinctions.
He had mastered in Greek and Latin, English and French and he had also acquired sufficient familiarity with other continental languages like Germany and Latin. For fourteen years, he had spent his life in England and had develop foreign taste and tendencies and he had been denationalized like his own. But he was destined to change all that inorder to re-nationalize himself. In the meantime, Aurobindo was in search of a suitable job and he gave interview in Baroda and was successful.
He secured a promising appointment in the Baroda state service. He then left England for India in February 1893. At the age of twenty eight he married Mrinalini who died in the plague of influenza at the young age of 32 while waiting in Calcutta to go and join her husband in Pondicherry. Sri Aurobindo died in 5 December 1950.
Sri Aurobindo’s contributions:
Aurobindo made exceptional contributions in different fields while he lived; which still have a great impact on the people even before and after his death. Some of his contributions are:
a) Art & Literature:
Aurobindo Ghose believed that there is no other highest Art’s form in differentiation to one another. He said that the great arts own appeal and this own appeal is supreme above all others.
1. Poetry:
Style in Literature according to Aurobindo is born and grows like any other living beings. He believed that the highest intensity of style; and movement in a poem is the self-expression and for all great poets, expression is the discovery. He says that a poem being an art should make an attempt to make its readers see the truth; and also make them live by awakening the the inner sight.
Sri Aurobindo’s literary works apart from some of his poems and eassy. His epic was “Savitri” which he continued to revise for the rest of his life. He wrote most of his writings in English which was later translated into number of languages.
2. Yoga:
Aurobindo believes that all life is consciously or sub-consciously a yoga. He believes that there is yoga in all the nature and it comes with life itself. Yoga exceeds the normal cosmic nature and surpasses; it because the aim of the cosmic nature is to realise and embrace the divine in itself; but yoga reaches beyond itself and the divine in itself exceeds the universe; and also the cosmic nature.
There should be three conceptions to practise yoga: God, Nature and the human soul also known as the transcendental, the universal and the individual. Aurobindo believed that Yoga is the first thing necessary to aspire for the divine.
b) Philosophy:
Sri Aurobindo’s main vision was the evolution of human life into the life divine in this earth. His philosophy contradicted the traditional views and he was of the view that it is possible to go beyond liberation and even surpass the normal integration of nirvana. We shall briefly look at his philosophies:
1. The supreme:
Aurobindo constantly refers to the supreme planes of infinite consciousness which are: Sat (truth) ; Cit (knowledge) ; Ananda (bliss). Saccidananda is the supreme in its pure self-existence and in its action through gnosis(knowledge) it appears as God, the creator of the world.
The omnipresent reality became the universe and it dwells in all the objects and also human. We only have to realise it inwardly and outwardly through the consciousness of the absolute. And thus in reality there is no distinction between god and the absolute.
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2. Supermind or Gnosis:
The traditional belief is that Brahma created the world. But Aurobindo is of the belief that the real creator is the supermind whose power also exceeds the mind. And of course it goes against the spiritual belief; but Aurobindo emphasizes his philosophy on this creator. The supermind represents the creative power of saccidananda, it is also about manifesting the trinity of saccidananda in to our lives.
Gnosis starts from the truth and shows appearances in the light of the truth. So also, it proceeds by identity or vision, it sees and it knows. It perceives and brings out the budding truth and the principle of harmony which is hidden in the formation of ignorance.