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15/08/22 04:00 AM IST

150th Birth Anniversary of Shri Aurobindo

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  • To commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Shri Aurobindo Ghosh, central government is holding spiritual programmes from August 12 to August 15, 2022, across 75 prisons in India. 
About Sri Aurobindo
  • He was born on August 15, 1872 in Calcutta (Kolkata) and died in Pondicherry (Puducherry). In Puducherry,  Sri Aurobindo Ashram was established in 1926.
  • He was a yogi, seer, philosopher, poet, and Indian nationalist who propounded a philosophy of divine life on earth through spiritual evolution.
  • In Pondichéry he founded a community of spiritual seekers, which took shape as the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in 1926.
  • Helped establish the Anushilan Samiti of Calcutta in 1902.
  • He and his brother revolutionary Barin Ghose contributed articles to the magazine Jugantar
  • He was also a journalist, editing newspapers such as Bande Mataram. In 1914, he started publishing the magazine, Arya.
  • In May 1908, Aurobindo was arrested in connection with the Alipore Conspiracy Case.
  • He wrote copiously and his greatest literary achievement was ‘Savitri’, an epic poem with about 24000 lines.
  • He developed a kind of Yoga called Integral Yoga.
Source- PIB 

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