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Sri Aurobindo's basic tenet is that mankind as an entity is not the last rung in the evolutionary scale — mankind will evolve beyond its current capacities ushering in a new, evolved human species guided by and filled with the knowledge, truth, substance and energy of spiritual consciousness.
Aurobindo's ideas about the further evolution of human capabilities influenced the thinking of Michael Murphy (who studied at Aurobindo's Ashram in India) - and indirectly, the Human potential movement, through Murphy's writings.
The birthday of Sri Aurobindo, August 15 — which Aurobindo also pointed out was the Feast of the Assumption of Mary in the Catholic Christian religion — is celebrated each year by Indians — it is the Independence Day of India.
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 Sri Aurobindo -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
His followers further believe that he was an (The manifestation of a Hindu deity (especially Vishnu) in human or superhuman or animal form) avatar, an incarnation of the (The supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions) supreme being.
It was there Sri Aurobindo saw the convicts, jailers, policemen, the prison bars, the trees, the judge, the lawyer etc., in the experience and realization of (Click link for more info and facts about Narayana) Narayana, a form of (The Sustainer; a Hindu divinity worshipped as the preserver of worlds) Vishnu.
There is clearly an idealist streak in Aurobindo's interpretation of ((from the Sanskrit for `end of the Veda') one of six orthodox philosophical systems or viewpoints rooted in the Upanishads as opposed to Mimamsa which relies on the Vedas and Brahmanas) Vedanta.
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 Sri Aurobindo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sri Aurobindo was born Aravinda Akroyd Ghose (usually pronounced and often written as Ghosh) in Kolkata (Calcutta), India, in 1872.
It was there Sri Aurobindo saw the convicts, jailers, policemen, the prison bars, the trees, the judge, the lawyer etc., in the experience and realization of Vasudeva, a form of Vishnu.
Sri Aurobindo considered her his equal and because of her astuteness as an organiser, left it to her to plan, run and build the growing ashram.
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 Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo, yoga, the Mother, philosophy and religion
Sri Aurobindo was born on the 15th of August 1872, in Calcutta.
With the Mother and Sri Aurobindo at its centre emerged the Sri Aurobindo Ashram - not a retreat for ascetics and retired men but the seat of an enduring spiritual experiment which works for the transformation and perfection of life instead of its rejection.
Sri Aurobindo affirms that all life is Yoga, that man has a greater destiny awaiting him, and through a conscious aspiration he can evolve into a higher being and open himself to a new consciousness which he called the Supramental.
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 Sri Aurobindo Ghosh
Sri Aurobindo, the prophet of Indian nationalism, was one of the pioneers of political awakening in India.
Aurobindo bore the rigours of the imprisonment, the bad food, the inadequate clothes, the lack of light and free air, the strain of boredom and the creeping solitariness of the gloomy cell.
The Ashramites in Sri Aurobindo Ashram are not Sannyasins.
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 Vandemataram.com - Patriots   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Sri Aurobindo (Aurobindo Ghose) was born in Calcutta on 15 August 1872.
Aurobindo was in the political field from 1902 to 1910 only, the first half of which was spent on silent groundwork, the second half, from 1906 to 1910, on open activities.
Aurobindo’s supreme spiritual work in poetry is the epic ‘Savitri’ in 23,813 lines of blank verse, the longest poem in English, described by Sir Herbert Read as ‘great by any standard’, and as ‘a great cosmic poem’ by the American philosopher and critic R. Piper.
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 Sri Aurobindo - Political Life and Teachings - Integral Yoga [OrObinĀ“dO gOsh]
Dhar, Niranjan - Aurobindo, Gandhi and Roy : A Yogi, a Mahatma and a Rationalist, 1986
Aurobindo, did not shrink from attacking a sanctimonious morality which equated the violence of the oppressor with the violence of those who sought to escape from that oppression.
Aurobindo had sought to appeal to the 'reviving sense of manhood' of the Indian people and it was perhaps, not surprising that he found it difficult to identify himself with a path which he continued to perceive as 'passive'.
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 Indo-Asian News Service -> India-Society-Aurobindo -> Thousands throng Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Aurobindo was born Aug 15, 1871 and this is one of the eight days a year when the ashram allows visitors to see the room in which he lived the last years of his life.
Aurobindo was jailed for a year after being implicated in a bomb attack.
Aurobindo died in December 1950, and in the past 55 years, his band of followers has grown.
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 BANGLAPEDIA: Ghosh, Aurobindo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Ghosh, Aurobindo (1872-1950) nationalist leader, philosopher, ascetic, was born in Kolkata on 15 August 1872, son of Krishnadhan Ghosh, a physician trained in Britain, and Swarnalata, the eldest daughter of rajnarayan basu.
There were three aspects of his political principles and action programme: one, to conduct secret revolutionary propaganda and develop organisations to prepare for an armed revolution; two, to carry on propaganda to prepare the entire nation for independence; and three, to organise the people for non-cooperation and resistance against foreign rule.
For this act Aurobindo was arrested on May 3, and on May 9 the police arrested Barin and his associates with arms, bombs and incriminating literature.
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 Sri Aravinda Maharshi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Sri Aurobindo Ghosh was an Indian nationalist and mystic philosopher, considered a saint by many Indians.
A power infallible shall lead the thought." Aurobindo was in a meditative trance on the 24th and came out of it to tell his devotees the news.
Aurobindo had the darshan -spiritual vision- of the descent of the supra mental Light to the Earth, followed by Sri Krishna.
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 Holos - Selene Calloni   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Aurobindo, this man god, introduces himself in history as a revolutionary and as a poet, more so than a guru to whom one must be a devout student.
Aurobindo Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1872.
According to Aurobindo, Yoga, eastern thought, meets western thought, spirituality becomes synonym of evolution of the species, the soul and the body recognize themselves one in the other, the mystic and the materialists reflect each other, the path that brings to Self passes from the transformation of the body and becomes a divine materialism.
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 Sri Aurobindo Ghosh and Bede Griffiths
Aurobindo received enlightenment in November of 1926, or as it is claimed in their literature, he at that point realized the 'Supermind'.
Aurobindo was clearly out to establish a new evolutionary religion.
Aurobindo, even though he lived as a recluse, remained intensely interested in world affairs.
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 Aurobindo's Frauds Exposed [ Dr. Abraham Kovoor, the eminent Dravidian Rationalist, exposed Aurobindo's False Claims to ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Aurobindo has been hailed by the bigoted Aryan Vaishnava fanatics as a hero of their clan of barbarian invaders.
Aurobindo the Liar spread the false myth that he somehow predicted the exact date of India's independance one year before the actual event, thereby establishing claim to be an Aryan Prophet.
Hence Aurobindo was like all the other fanatic Vaishnavites, spreading falsehood and delusion among non-Brahmans in order to degrade their mental capabilities and enslave them to the Aryan yoke.
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Symbolism in the poetry of Sri Aurobindo.- New Delhi: Abhinav, 1989.- viii, 122 p.
The Growth of a Flame.- Kamala's correspondence with Sri Aurobindo and Mother in the early days of the Ashram; compiled and edited by Roshan.
Sri Aurobindo Ghosh and Bal Gangadhar Tilak: the spirit of freedom.- New Delhi: Deep and Deep Publications, 1991.- 142 p.
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Ghosh and his type believed in direct fight and arms confrontation with the British.
Aurobindo Ghosh was born in 1872 in a very modern and up to date family of
Aurobindo's father did not bear the expenses of the boy's studies.
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 Introducing Indian psychology: the basics
Sri Aurobindo describes this as a process of exclusive concentration, comparable to that of a man fully engrossed in his work: he forgets the surrounding; he forgets who he is; for all outer appearances, he becomes the work in which he is involved.
According to Sri Aurobindo it is quite possible to recover these methods of direct knowledge, and then use the reasoning mind, not to arrive at knowledge, as we do now, but only to express a knowledge that has already been attained by these more direct, and in the end more reliable means.
The towering quality of his realisation marks according to Sri Aurobindo the transition from a period dominated by the rational, divisive and externalising mind, to a new period, once more grounded in direct, intuitive experience.
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 Articles - Sri Aurobindo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Of these three, bhakti is central, and in keeping with the Hindu tradition of the Divine Mother, Sri Aurobindo teaches devotion to the Mother, personified in his co-worker Mirra Richard, henceforth called 'The Mother'.
Sri Aurobindo's extensive mapping of consciousness and his life-long endeavour to fathom the overhead regions through poetry and yoga are seminal contributions.
By translating this ideal to practical terms, Sri Aurobindo draws an elaborate blueprint concerning the ideal of human unity leading to the establishment of a World-Union.
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 Life of Sri Aurobindo
It was thus that Sri Aurobindo grew, away from his family, away from his motherland, away from his roots and his culture.
But Sri Aurobindo was not meant to be an ICS officer, serving Her Majesty's Government as one more cog in a giant bureaucratic machine.
Sri Aurobindo also felt that a period of great upheaval for his motherland was coming in which he was destined to play a leading role.
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 Socio-Historical Context for SRM's Emergence
Aurobindo recognized the inherent dangers of the period: unrestrained relativism, tyranny by the majority, rigid economic or governmental management by expert bureaucracies, and utilitarian social morality.
Aurobindo noted the development of psychic research and ideas of Nietzsche and Bergson, but he placed his greatest hope in a growing recognition that the individual is more than his social function, in his spiritual connection to others.
Secondly, in Aurobindo's idealization, historical stages are both psychological and progressive, suggesting an evolutionary and non-material (or spiritual) image of humanity developing itself into higher forms of expression.
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 Sri Aurobindo Ghosh: Hindu Sanskrit Dictionary on Sri Aurobindo Ghosh
Sri Aurobindo Ghosh: One of India's greatest yogis and spiritual writers, he was at first involved in the Indian freedom movement, but came to see that yoga was the true path to freedom.
His ashram in South India became one of the major spiritual centers in modern India, and his voluminous spiritual writings are read and prized throughout the world.
Sri Aurobindo Ghosh is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
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 Sri Aurobindo Ghosh
Aurobindo saw him, obtained an appointment in the Baroda Service and left England for India, arriving there in February, 1893.
For 13 years Sri Aurobindo would be immersed in Western culture - which would eventually reward his academic prowess with social situation in his country (under British rule).
Simultaneously, he set out on his inner quest not to escape into higher worlds of consciousness, but as a means of sharpening his revolutionary action against the British
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 p3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A marble bust of Sri Aurobindo Ghosh, a freedom fighter, thinker and philosopher, is placed in another niche on the outer wall of the Central Hall, opposite Gate No. 1 of Parliament House.
Sri Aurobindo believed that all human problems cannot be solved merely by economic and political means but by a deep and psychological change.
The bust was donated by Dr. Karan Singh, MP, Chairman, Sri Aurobindo Centre, New Delhi.
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 Yoga - WikiHealth
Sri Aurobindo, referred to as Aurobindo Ghosh by those who consider him as merely a philosopher rather than an Avatar, was not simply an intellectual genius born in West Bengal and educated in the best university in England.
Besides his influence and scholarly writing on Yoga, he also founded Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, that continues to propagate the practice of Integral Yoga, which is a Tantric synthesis of the four main Yogas (Karma, Jnana, Bhakti and Raja).
Gopi Krishna was a Kashmiri office worker and spiritual seeker who was born in 1903, and wrote autobiographical accounts of his spiritual experiences with Yoga.
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 Pondicherry, Pondicherry India, Pondicherry Tourism, History of Pondicherry, Visit Pondicherry, Pondicherry tour, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Situated around 200 kilometres south of Chennai, Pondicherry is today a union territory where the French connection on the architecture and culture of the place is strongly visible-a result of the centuries-old relation with the French power.
However, the fame of Pondicherry lies not in its French connection but its relation with the saint-philosopher Aurobindo Ghosh who founded his ashram here.
Sri Aurobindo was a political revolutionary who reached Pondicherry in 1920 and established a place for peaceful and harmonious living.
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PURANI A.B. / Evening talks with Sri Aurobindo / 1961 / Pondicherry
AUROBINDO / Savitri (Followed by the author's letters on the poems) / 1954
AUROBINDO / The ideal of human unity / 1950
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 Sri Aurobindo,yoga,Mother,sri aurobindo ashram, Search for True light,immortality and delight
Where love and beauty are not or are reluctant to be born, she does not come; where they are mixed and disfigured with baser things, she turns soon to depart or cares little to pour her riches.
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother On The Future Poetry
the Mother and Sri Aurobindo are copyright Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Pondicherry -605002 India.
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 INDPRIDE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In 1908 Aurobindo was arrested in the Alipore Bomb case.
The whole community in India was a very big one and the community culture based on Dharma was not thrown into a kind of (political or national) organization that would resist external aggression.
It is no use ignoring facts; some day the Hindus may have fight the Muslims and they must prepare for it Hindu-Muslim unity should not mean the subjection of the Hindus.
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 Travel Agent for Pondicherry, Pondicherry Travel Agent, Travel Agency in Pondicherry, Pondicherry Tour Operators
Pondicherry, India, travel agent, tour operator, travel agency, tourism, tours, tour packages, Karaikal, Mahe, Yanam, Aurobindo Ghosh, Sri Aurobindo, France, Petit Canal, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry Ashram, Bharti museum, Bhartidasan Memorial Museum, Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
More than anything else, the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, where Sri Aurobindo and the Mother lived for the most parts of their lives, attracts tourists to this little city.
The Pondicherry Museum is home to some of the most exquisite collections on architecture and sculpture.
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 Amazon.co.uk: Aurobindo: Involution: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
If more listeners enjoyed the sound of looming B52 bombers, Aurobindo would rule the world.
Apparently there's a prize offered if you can solve the mystery of the track titles and dates ("February 29th, 1956: Supermind's Light Becomes Part of the Earth", the hit of the album).
My best tip is to look up guru Aurobindo Ghosh.
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