Sri Aurobindo

Here are some key biographical points about Sri Aurobindo:

• Born in Calcutta in 1872, received a Western education at Cambridge University in England.

• Returned to India in 1893 and worked in the princely state of Baroda, eventually becoming a leader in the early Indian nationalist movement against British rule.

• Founded schools and ashrams focused on his spiritual philosophy, which revolved around the concept of "Integral Yoga" integrating spirituality with life.

• In 1910 he retreated from politics and went to the former French colony of Pondicherry to devote himself entirely to spiritual practice and writing.

• There he claimed to have achieved the highest state of spiritual enlightenment through a practice he called "Integral Yoga", which integrates all parts of one’s being from matter to spirit.

• In 1920, he was joined in Pondicherry by "The Mother", a French woman named Mirra Alfassa who led the spiritual community and ashram with him.

• Published influential works expounding his spiritual philosophy focusing on the evolution of life into a "supramental" or divine existence, including The Life Divine, Savitri, and others.

• Continued writing prolifically until his death in 1950 at the age of 78, producing over 35 volumes of essays, poems, translations and spiritual discourses.

• His ashram and spiritual community in Pondicherry continues as the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, devoted to practicing and spreading his teachings.

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