-16_chapter - 14 karmayogin.htm?IsHostedInContentPage=1 CHAPTER 14   KARMAYOGIN   I   A whole year in prison, in Alipur most of the time; in the eyes of the outside world, a year of bleak or baneful incarceration. Yet, for Sri Aurobindo himself, the jail had been no cage of confinement, but a veritable Yogashram where Purushottama had befriended him, and had sported as Guru, companion and guide. Thus had Sri Aurobindo's "enemies", by sending him to prison, only opened to him the doors of sudden enlightenment and felicity. And it had always been like that, for the highest good had come to Sri Aurobindo from his so-called "enemies" - and now he had no "enemy" in the wor

-28_chapter - 26 savitri.htm?IsHostedInContentPage=1 CHAPTER 26 SAVITRI I   The Savitri story is of great antiquity. It was already ancient at the time of the Mahabharata events, for it was one of the stories that Rishi Markandeya narrated to Yudhishthira during the years of his exile to console him and fortify his spirits. Several of Sri Aurobindo's narrative poems or fragments - Love and Death, Vidula, Chitrangada, Uloupy, Nala - were based on, or translated from, the Mahabharata, yet the fascination was inexhaustible, and in particular the Savitri story, like the Nala story, had a special attraction for Sri Aurobindo as embodying the early morning glory of Rishi Vyasa

Sri Aurobindo     a biography and a history   by K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar         SRI AUROBINDO INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF EDUCATION PONDICHERRY

-32.chronology.htm?IsHostedInContentPage=1 CHRONOLOGY OF SRI AUROBINDO'S LIFE 1872 — August 15 Birth in Calcutta. 1872-1879 At first in Rangpur, East Bengal; later sent to the Loretto Convent School, Darjeeling. 1878 — February 21 Birth of the Mother in Paris. 1879 — Taken to England. 1879-1884 — In Manchester (84, Shakespeare Street) in the charge of the Drewett family. Tutored at home by the Drewetts. 1884 — September Admitted to St. Paul School, London. Takes lodgings at 49, St. Stephen's Avenue, Shepherd's Bush, London. 1886 — August Vacation in Keswick. 1887 — August Vacation in Hastings. After returning from Hastings tak

-05_chapter - 3 baroda.htm?IsHostedInContentPage=1 Sri Aurobindo — Baroda —1906     CHAPTER 3   BARODA   I Sri Aurobindo's arrival in India early in February 1893 was preceded by his father Dr. Krishnadhan's death in peculiarly tragic circumstances. Even as late as 2 December 1892, as may be inferred from his letter (referred to in the previous chapter) of that date to his brother-in-law Jogendra, Dr. Krishnadhan was feeling almost certain that his son Aurobindo would be entering the Indian Civil Service and making his mark as a brilliant administrator. Sometime later information seems to have reached Krishnadhan of Sri Aurobindo's failure to get into the Se

-06_chapter - 4 translations.htm?IsHostedInContentPage=1 CHAPTER 4   TRANSLATIONS   I     During the Baroda period, Sri Aurobindo engaged in a great deal of literary activity in prose and in verse, in journalistic as also serious creative writing. Journalism embalmed years after its publication in the form of a book could be utterly unreadable. But Sri Aurobindo's contemporary political comment like 'New Lamps for Old' and first forays in literary criticism like the series of articles on Bankim still leap to life as one reads them, and both have been republished in book form.1 Some other political writings of the last years of the Baroda period - notably the 'Bhava

-08_chapter - 6 dramas of conflict and change.htm?IsHostedInContentPage=1 CHAPTER 6   DRAMAS OF CONFLICT AND CHANGE    I   In his early years at Baroda, Sri Aurobindo's creative inspiration flowed easily into the moulds of translations from Sanskrit and Bengali, and lyric and narrative poetry. Urvasie and Love and Death, for example, took the romantic epic as far as it could go - and it was to great heights indeed. The scaling of high heaven in Urvasie, the descent into Hell or Patala in Love and Death, the fight for the mountain pass in the later Baji Prabhou: one would almost think that, between them, are comprehended the essence of Paradise, Inferno and Purgatorial

Sri Aurobindo the Critic of Poetry* Umashankar Joshi A fourth dimension of aesthetic sense Where all is in ourselves, ourselves in all, To the cosmic wideness re-aligns our souls, A kindling rapture joins the seer and the seen; The craftsman and the craft grown only one, Achieve perfection by the magic throb And passion of their close identity. Sri Aurobindo: Savitri, II. ii. SRI Aurobindo's principal mission was to practise yoga and through yoga embody the truth of life. The main bulk of his writing is on yoga, on philosophical and metaphysical subjects. He has also been a creative writer since his early yo

Sri Aurobindo's Evolutionary Concept of Man* L. G. Chincholkar '"THE problem of human destiny has been engaging the minds of the A thinkers of the world throughout the ages. A search to know the facts behind the phenomena, a probe into the unknown reality of the existence of man and the world have been the subjects of ceaseless enquiry for all those who have not been content with the first view of things. The status of a man has a direct bearing upon his destiny. Is he a product of evolution or a directly implanted Adam or Eve by God? What is he at present, what would be his future ? How has he come to be what he is now? What, in general, is the past, present and fut

Sri Aurobindo's Life* Suniti Kumar Chatterji I SRI Aurobindo came into the world on 15 August 1872 and passed into the Great Beyond on 5 December 1950. He had thus lived and trod upon this earth for about seventy-eight years and three months. But before he joined the majority, by the glory of both his Thought and his Action in the living world, and by his Vision of the Unseen (glimpses of which out of the abundance of the Grace he had received from the Unseen, he brought within the ken of seeking souls), he had already become one of the Immortals of history. Sri Aurobindo has been one of the great band of divine choristers in the history of man, who h