Sri Aurobindo

The teaching of Sri Aurobindo starts from that of the ancient sages of Indian that behind the appearances of the universe there is a Reality of a Bing and Consciousness, a Self of all things, one and eternal. All beings are united in that One Self and Spirit but divided by a certain separativity of consciousness, an ignorance of their true Self and Reality in the mind, life and body. It is possible be a certain psychological discipline to remove this veil of separative consciousness and become aware of the true Self, the Divinity whining us and all.

On 15^th august 1872 Sri Aurobindo was born in Calcutta. In 1910 he came over to Pondicherry in French India in obedience to the Divine command. He had now woken up to the supreme mission of his life; to plunge into the depth of spirituality and to discover and establish the principles of the Integral Yoga—for transformation of man.

In 1914 Sri Aurobindo began the publication of a philosophical monthly, the Arya. Most of his more important work—The Live Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, Essays on the Gita, Commentaries on the Isha Upnishad appeared serially in the Arya. These works embodied much of the inner knowledge that had come to him in his pactice of Yoga. Others were concerned with the spirit and significance of Indian civilization and culture(The foundations of Indian Culture), the true meaning of the Vedas(The secret of the Veda), the progress of human society(The Human Cycle), the nature and evolution of poetry(The Future Poetry), the possibility of the unification of the human race(The Ideal of Human Unity). The Arya ceased publication in 1921 after six years and a half of uninterrupted appearance.

On 24 November 1926 another phase of in sri Aurobindo’s mighty spiritual work began. He retired into complete solitude to concentrate on his work. Yet he kept a close on all that was happening in the world and in India and actively intervened whenever necessary. He shared, too, the Mothers’s work of guiding the disciples, mainly by  writing thousands of letters, packed with inner help and power, explaining their difficulties, their experiences, directing them, giving them knowledge. Sri Aurobindo’s work was to bring down a still greater power of consciousness he called Supramental, to transform the earth-life and to hew out a path he called Intergral Yoga. It is perhaps the most powerful artistic work in the world for expanding man’s mind towards the Absolute. It is a means for ascension. It is the prophetic message of the divinized earth and of man’s God-like possibility.

The aim of sri Aurobindo’s Yoga is an inner self –development by which one who follow it can in time discover the One Self in all and evolve a higher consciousness than the mental, a spiritual and supramental consciousness which will transform and divinize human nature.

sri Aurobindo left his body on 5th December 1950.