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14/12/22 12:25 PM IST

PM Participated in a Programme Commemorating Sri Aurobindo’s 150th Birth Anniversary

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  • Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi participated in a programme commemorating Sri Aurobindo’s 150th birth anniversary, on 13th December, 2022.
About Sri Aurobindo
  • He is popularly known as yogi Rishi Aurobindo.
  • He was a revolutionary, nationalist, poet, educationist and philosopher.
  • He was born on August 15, 1872, in Calcutta to Shri Krishnadhan Ghosh.
  • His father was a rich doctor from Calcutta.
  • At the age of seven he was taken to England for education. There he studied at St. Paul’s School, London, and at King’s College, Cambridge.
  • He also joined a revolutionary society and took a leading role in secret preparations for an uprising against the British Government in India.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • He died on 5th December 1950 in Pondicherry.
Literary Works:
  • An English newspaper called Bande Mataram (in 1905)
  • Bases of Yoga
  • Bhagavad Gita and Its Message
  • The Future Evolution of Man
  • Rebirth and Karma
  • Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
Source- PIB

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