Discover the life and legacy of Sri Aurobindo, a philosopher, yogi, and nationalist leader who linked India’s independence with spiritual evolution through Integral Yoga and cultural renaissance. Sri Aurobindo's advanced world vision, the backbone of Auroville, takes one into wider areas relating to the self, and to life. The spiritual path - or sadhana - as developed by him, works with a combination of a voluntarily adopted psychological discipline and various yogic practices. Already a century ago he declared "All life is Yoga". The text below was written by Sri Aurobindo himself, in 1934. Sri Aurobindo's LifeThe following passages are excerpted from Volume 30, SABCL, p.1-6. Sri Aurobindo was born in Calcutta on 15 August, 1872. In 1879, at the age of seven, he was taken with his two elder brothers to England for education and lived there for fourteen years. Brought up at first in an English family at Manchester, he joined St. Paul's School in London in 1884 and in 1890 went from it with a senior classical scholarship to King's College, Cambridge, where he studied for two ... Sri Aurobindo, one of India's most influential philosophers, yogis, and freedom fighters, was a figure who seamlessly bridged the realms of spirituality and nationalism. His life journey, marked by revolutionary activism, profound spiritual exploration, and pioneering philosophical teachings, made him a unique leader who impacted both India's struggle for independence and the global spiritual landscape.
