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⭐ Core Definition: Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo (born Aurobindo Ghose; 15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950) was an Indian yogi, maharishi, and Indian nationalist. He also edited the newspaper Bande Mataram.

Aurobindo studied for the Indian Civil Service at King's College, in Cambridge, England. After returning to India, he took up various civil service works under the Maharaja of the princely state of Baroda. He became increasingly involved in nationalist politics in the Indian National Congress and the nascent revolutionary movement in Bengal with the Anushilan Samiti. He was arrested in the aftermath of a number of bombings linked to his organisation in a public trial where he faced charges of treason for Alipore Conspiracy and then released, after which he moved to Pondicherry and developed a spiritual practice he called Integral Yoga. He wrote The Life Divine, which deals with the philosophical aspect of Integral Yoga and Synthesis of Yoga, which deals with the principles and methods of Integral Yoga. In 1926, he and Mira Alfassa founded Sri Aurobindo Ashram.

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👉 Sri Aurobindo in the context of Nobel laureates of India

The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed on "those who conferred the greatest benefit on humankind" in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economic Sciences, instituted by Alfred Nobel's last will, which specified that a part of his fortune be used to create the prizes. Each laureate (recipient) receives a gold medal, a diploma and a sum of money, which is decided annually by the Nobel Foundation. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel; the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; the Swedish Academy awards the Nobel Prize in Literature; and the Norwegian Nobel Committee awards the Nobel Peace Prize. They are widely recognised as one of the most prestigious honours awarded in the aforementioned fields.

First instituted in 1901, the Nobel Prize has been awarded to a total of 989 individuals (930 men and 59 women) and 30 organisations as of 2022. Among the recipients, 12 are Indians of which 5 are Indian citizens and 7 are of Indian ancestry or residency. Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian citizen to be awarded and also the first non-European and the first Asian to be awarded in 1913. Mother Teresa is the only woman among the list of recipients. Sri Aurobindo, the Indian poet, philosopher, nationalist and developer of Integral yoga, was nominated unsuccessfully for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1943 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950.

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Sri Aurobindo in the context of Dayanand Saraswati

Dayanand Saraswati (pronunciation) born Mool Shankar Tiwari (12 February 1824 – 30 October 1883), was a Hindu philosopher, social leader and founder of the Arya Samaj, a reform movement of Hinduism. His book Satyarth Prakash has remained one of the influential texts on the philosophy of the Vedas and clarifications of various ideas and duties of human beings. He was the first to give the call for Swaraj as "India for Indians" in 1876, a call later taken up by Lokmanya Tilak. Denouncing the idolatry and ritualistic worship, he worked towards reviving Vedic religion. Subsequently, the philosopher and President of India, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, called him one of the "makers of Modern India", as did Sri Aurobindo.

Those who were influenced by and followed Dayananda included Chaudhary Charan Singh, Madam Cama, Pandit Lekh Ram, Swami Shraddhanand, Shyamji Krishna Varma, Kishan Singh, Bhagat Singh, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Bhai Parmanand, Lala Hardayal, Madan Lal Dhingra, Ram Prasad Bismil, Mahadev Govind Ranade, Ashfaqullah Khan, Mahatma Hansraj, Lala Lajpat Rai, Yogmaya Neupane, Vallabhbhai Patel and others.

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Sri Aurobindo in the context of Integral yoga

Integral Yoga (or Purna Yoga) is the spiritual philosophy and practice developed by Sri Aurobindo and The Mother (Mirra Alfassa). Central to this philosophy is the concept of involution, a process in which the Spirit plunges into the "Inconscience" of Matter, followed by evolution, where the Spirit progressively manifests itself back through the material world.

According to Sri Aurobindo, the current status of humanity is not final; rather, man is a "transitional being" in an intermediate stage of evolution, destined to unfold the Spirit and manifest the Supramental consciousness to transform earthly life. While unassisted natural evolution is a slow process taking centuries or many births, Integral Yoga is defined as a "rapid and concentrated conscious evolution" capable of accelerating this change in a single lifetime. To achieve this, the practice utilizes a "triple labour of aspiration, rejection and surrender," leading to a "triple transformation": the psychic change (changing the nature into a soul-instrumentation), the spiritual change (descending of higher Light and Power), and the supramental transmutation (ascent into the Supermind and the transforming descent of the supramental Consciousness).

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← Dayanand Saraswati ← Nobel laureates of India ← Integral yoga
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Modern yoga gurus → Maharishi → Indian nationalist → Bande Mataram (publication) → Imperial Civil Service → King's College, Cambridge → Princely state → Baroda State → Indian National Congress → Bengal → Anushilan Samiti → Emperor v. Aurobindo Ghosh and others → Pondicherry (city) → Integral Yoga → Mira Alfassa → Sri Aurobindo Ashram →