PM Participated in a Programme Commemorating Sri Aurobindo’s 150th Birth Anniversary: On December 13, 2022, a programme commemorating Sri Aurobindo’s 150th birthday was attended by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. The programme, which was organised by Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav and was held in Kamban Kalai Sangam, Puducherry, saw the release of a commemorative coin and postal stamp in honour of Sri Aurobindo by the prime minister.
December 2022 Current Affairs Quiz
About Sri Aurobindo:
He is popularly known as yogi Rishi Aurobindo. He was a revolutionary, nationalist, poet, educationist and philosopher.
Birth: On August 15, 1872, Shri Krishnadhan Ghosh gave birth to him in Calcutta. A rich doctor from Calcutta was his father.
Early life and Education:
At the age of seven he was taken to England for education. He studied King’s College in Cambridge as well as St. Paul’s School in London when he was there.
As A Revolutionary:
He also joined a revolutionary society and took a leading role in secret preparations for an uprising against the British Government in India.
- leader of the Nationalist movement.
- In 1906, soon after the Partition of Bengal, Sri Aurobindo quit his post in Baroda and went to Calcutta, where he soon became one of the leaders of the Nationalist movement.
- He was the first political leader in India to openly put forward, in his newspaper Bande Mataram, the idea of complete independence for the country.
As A Yogi :
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- Its aim is a spiritual realisation that not only liberates man’s consciousness but also transforms his nature.
- In 1926, with the help of his spiritual collaborator, the Mother, he founded the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Prosecuted twice for sedition and once for conspiracy, he was released each time for lack of evidence.
His Literary works:
He was a journalist as well, and his first philosophical publication, Arya, came out in 1914. Among his many writings are The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga and Savitri.
- Teachings:
- He propounded a philosophy of divine life on earth through spiritual evolution.
- Death: Aurobindo Ghose died on December 5, 1950.
