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SRI AUROBINDO INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF EDUCATION Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, an integral part of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, serves as a field of experiment and research in education. To give a concrete shape to his vision, the Mother opened a school for children on December 2, 1943. Since then, the school has continued to grow and experiment on various educational problems and issues. In 1959, the Mother decided to rename it ‘Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education’. The symbol of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education is described as “The effective manifestation of Ishwara and Ishwari in union.”

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 descendin

THE MOTHER The Mother was born Mirra Alfassa in Paris on February 21, 1878. A pupil at the Academie Julian, she became an accomplished artist, pianist and writer. Interested in occultism, she visited Tlemcen, Algeria, in 1905 and l906 to study with the Max Theon and his wife. Her primary interest, however, was spiritual development. In 1914 the Mother voyaged to Pondicherry to meet Sri Aurobindo, whom she at once recognised as the one who for many years had inwardly guided her spiritual development. After a stay of eleven months she was obliged to return to France due to the outbreak of the First World War. In April 1920 the Mother rejoined Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry. When the Sri Aurobindo Ashram was formed in November 1926, Sri Aurobindo entrusted its full material and spiritual charge to the Mother. In 1952 she established Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education and in 1968 an international township, Auroville. The Mother left her body on November 17, 1973. The symb