Sri Aurobindo

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Sri Aurobindo


Born
in Calcutta, India
August 15, 1872

Died
December 05, 1950

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Sri Aurobindo (Bengali: শ্রী অরবিন্দ Sri Ôrobindo) was an Indian nationalist and freedom fighter, major Indian English poet, philosopher, and yogi. He joined the movement for India's freedom from British rule and for a duration (1905–10), became one of its most important leaders, before turning to developing his own vision and philosophy of human progress and spiritual evolution.

The central theme of Sri Aurobindo's vision is the evolution of life into a "life divine". In his own words: "Man is a transitional being. He is not final. The step from man to superman is the next approaching achievement in the earth evolution. It is inevitable because it is at once the intention of the inner spirit and the logic of Nature's process."

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Quotes by Sri Aurobindo  (?)
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“True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.”
Sri Aurobindo & The Mother

“There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness.

When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.”
Sri Aurobindo

“The great are strongest when they stand alone,
A God-given might of being is their force.”
Sri. Aurobindo, Savitri

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