Prime Minister Narendra Modi has participated in a programme commemorating Sri Aurobindo’s 150th birth anniversary on 13th December, 2022.
About ‘Sri Aurobindo’ –
- Sri Aurobindo (born Aurobindo Ghose; 15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950) was an Indian philosopher, yoga guru, maharishi, poet, and Indian nationalist.
- He was also a journalist, editing newspapers such as Bande Mataram. He also contributed articles to the Bengali weekly Yugantar.
- He was one of the founders of the youth club Anushilan Samiti which protested against the atrocities of the British government.
- He joined the Indian movement for independence from British colonial rule, until 1910 and then became a spiritual reformer.
- At Pondicherry, Sri Aurobindo developed a spiritual practice he called Integral Yoga.
- Alipore Bomb Case —
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- Aurobindo, a revolutionary and a militant nationalist, was charged in the Alipore Bomb Case (1906-1910) and was sentenced to jail.
- He spent one year in solitary confinement at the Alipore Central Jail in Calcutta.
- Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das fought his case and Ghosh was released.
- His major works include —
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- Essays on the Gita (1922),
- The Life Divine (1939)
- Collected Poems and Plays (1942),
- The Synthesis of Yoga (1948),
- The Human Cycle (1949),
- The Ideal of Human Unity (1949),
- Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol (1950),
- On the Veda (1956).
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