SRI AUROBINDO

SRI AUROBINDO

Sri Aurobindo was born in Calcutta on August 15, 1872. At the age of seven he was taken to England and he studied at St. Paul's School, London and at King's College, Cambridge. Returning to India in 1893, he worked for the Princely State of Baroda and as a professor in Baroda College. In 1906, after the Partition of Bengal, he became one of the leaders of the Nationalist movement. He was the first political leader in India to put forward the idea of complete independence for the country. He had begun the practice of Yoga in 1905 in Baroda. In 1910 he withdrew from politics and went to Pondicherry and devoted himself to his inner spiritual life and work. During his forty years there he evolved a new method of spiritual practice - the Integral Yoga. In 1926, along with his spiritual collaborator, the Mother, he founded the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Sri Aurobindo left his body on December 5, 1950.  The symbol of Sri Aurobindo has two intersecting triangles. The descending triangle represents Sat-Chit-Ananda and the ascending triangle represents the aspiring answer from matter under the form of life, light and love. The central square is the perfect manifestation having a lotus in the centre which is the Avatar of the Supreme. The water inside the square represents the multiplicity, the creation.