Paramahansa Yogananda - A brief overview of his life In the hundred years since the birth of Paramahansa Yogananda, this beloved world teacher has come to be recognized as one of the greatest emissaries to the West of India’s ancient wisdom. His life and teachings continue to be a source of light and inspiration to people of all races, cultures and creeds.  

A Great Mind, a Great Wi11*   A GREAT mind, a great will, a great and preeminent leader of men has passed away from the field of his achievement and labour. To the mind of his country Lokamanya Tilak was much more, for he had become to it a considerable part of itself, the embodiment of its past efforts and the head of its present struggle for a free and greater life. His achievement and personality have put him amidst the first rank of historic and significant figures. He was one who built much rapidly out of little beginnings, a creator of great things out of an unworked material. The creations he left behind him were a new and strong and self-

Ganesh Chaturthi  also known as   Tilak & Sri Ganesh festival   Ganesh Chaturthi  also known as Vinayaka Chaturthi, is the Hindu festival celebrated on the occasion of birthday of Lord Ganesha, the son of Shiva and Parvati, who is believed to bestow his presence on earth for all his devotees in the duration of this festival. It is the day Shiva declared his son Ganesha as superior to all the gods. Ganesha is widely worshipped as the god of wisdom, prosperity and good fortune and t

Sri Aurobindo on Bal Gangadhar Tilak   NEITHER Mr. Tilak nor his speeches really require any presentation or foreword. His speeches are, like the featureless Brahman, self-luminous. Straightforward, lucid, never turning aside from the point which they mean to hammer in or wrapping it up in ornamental verbiage, they read like a series of self-evident propositions. And Mr. Tilak himself, his career, his place in Indian politics are also a self-evident proposition, a hard fact baffling and dismaying in the last degree to those to whom his name has been anathema and his increasing pre-eminence figured as a portent of evil

Lokmanya Tilak (Marathi, born as Keshav Gangadhar Tilak (23 July 1856 – 1 August 1920), was an Indian nationalist, teacher, social reformer, lawyer and freedom  fighter who was the first popular leader of the Indian Independence Movement. Met Sri Aurobindo Several times prior to his arrival in Pondicherry and were closely associated during the freedom struggle. In  The British colonial authorities derogatorily called him "Father of the Indian

Sister Nivedita  ( Margaret Elizabeth Noble) was a Scots-Irish social worker, author, teacher and a disciple of Swami Vivekananda.She spent her childhood and early days of her youth in Ireland. From her father, from her college professor etc. she learned many valuable lessons like – service to mankind is the true service to God. She worked as school teacher and later also opened a school. She was committed to marry a Welsh youth who died soon after engagement. Sister Nivedita met

The Revolutionary   A public propaganda to convert the whole nation to the idea of independence was a later acquisition in Sri Aurobindo's armoury. He had started out with a secret revolutionary propaganda and organization of which the central object was the preparation of an armed insurrection. "We wanted," he said, "to give battle after awakening the spirit of the race through guerilla warfare.... My idea was for an open armed revolution in the whole of India." It was in 1901 that Sri Aurobindo made his first move by sending Jatin Banerji "as his lieutenant to Be

Jatindra Nath Banerjee (Niralamba Swami) was one of two great Indian nationalists and freedom fighters - along with Aurobindo Ghosh (Sri Aurobindo) - who dramatically rose to prominence between 1871 and 1910. But the metamorphosis of both these persons from great active freedom fighters to great yogi and guru was no less dramatic. Aurobindo Ghosh became Sri Aurobindo and Jatindra Nath Banerjee became Niralamba Swami Bengali: নিরালম্ব স্বামী )

PREDICTION by NAGAI SWAMI    Letter of Sri Aurobindo, date unknown. Published in On Himself, p. 373.   The Yogi from the North (Uttara Yogi) was my own name given to me because of a prediction made long ago by a famous Tamil Yogi, that thirty years later (agreeing with the time of my arrival) a Yogi from the North would come as a fugitive to the South and practise there an integral Yoga (Poorna Yoga), and this would be one sign of the approaching liberty of India. He gave three utterances as the mark by which this Yogi could be recognised and all these were found in the letters to my wife.