Sri Aurobindo Sri Aurobindo (August 15, 1872 Calcutta, Pondicherry 1950), yogi, nationalist, poet, critical thinker, spiritual leader of India. His full name was Aurobindo Ghose.
Sri Aurobindo was educated in England, in London and Cambridge (King's College), from 7 to 21 years, at the insistence of his father, Dr Krishnadhan Ghose, who had been one of the first native India to be educated in England, grew up ignorant of local culture and religion, wealth, which only came to incorporate into your brain after 1893, when he returned home. Worked for a time as a teacher of English and French at Baroda College. In 1906 Sri Aurobindo would be linked with the political movement in India exactly with the movement of resistance to British colonial rule, quickly becoming a spokesman for the nationalists, who demanded complete independence from Britain.
Sri Aurobindo in 1908, moved to Pondicherry, where he devoted himself to spiritual life, forming numerous disciples and followers.
Aurobindo developed a metaphysical-theological doctrine at a time and evolutionary emanationist through integration with elements from the Upanishads, Yoga School and the idealist tradition of the West. First of all stressed the unity of Brahma, conceived as an absolute right claimed by if it wants to leave itself and its own failure.
Brahma is the evolutionary drive that spilled into the manifold and has the three properties of Being, the Force-Consciousness and Bliss.
The reality is the product of the emanation and differentiation of the Absolute, the latter emerges as a powerhouse, the whole world, which unfolds in a series of forms to reach the area. While the material contains potentially higher forms, to which it evolves. The man represents the main point of the process of resorption of the world in "Divine Life", but in order to fully perform such resorption is necessary that the man overcome his desire for multiple and particular.
The instrument of this excess capital is the practice of Integral Yoga (Hatha Yoga), a series of spiritual exercises that lead man to the pure contemplative life and immersion in the Divine Life. The first stage in this process of deification is the formation of a superior man, a new "first man", the origin of the transformation and deification of the world.
Main works: Basis of Yoga, 1936.
- The Life Divine. The Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo, 3 vols., 1942.
- The Human Cycle, 1949.
- Lights on Life-Problems, 1950.
- On Yoga. I: The Synthesis of Yoga, 1950.
- The Foundation of Indian Culture, 1954.
_ Biografía: A. B. Purani, Life of S. A. (1872-1962), 2a ed., 1960.
— Véase S. K. Maitra, An Introduction to the Philosophy of S. A., 1942.
— Íd., íd., The Meeting of East and West in S. Aurobindo's Philosophy, 1956.
—N. K. Gupta, The Yoga of S. A., 2 vols., 1948-50.
— S. Bahrati, The Integral Yogi of S. A., 1949.
— H. Chaudhuri, The Philosophy of Integralism, or the Metaphysical Synthesis inherent in the Teaching of S. A., 1954.
— A. C. Das, S. A. and some Modem Problems, 1958.
— H. Chaudhuri y F. Spiegelberg, eds., The Integral Philosophy of S. A., 1960 (con colaboraciones de A. Ch Moore, PA Sorokin, N. Smart et al.) - VP Varma, The Political Philosophy of SA, 1961.
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