Published: 7th Mar, 2022
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The Government is committed to expanding Auroville into a ‘city’ in line with the existing Master Plan, amidst reaffirmed support to the experimental township.
- The first Auroville Festival was organized recently to mark the 150th birth anniversary year of Sri Aurobindo.
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About Sri Aurobindo:
- Sri Aurobindo was born in Calcutta in
- After studying in London, he returned to India in 1893 and worked for the Princely State of Baroda in the service of the Maharaja and as a professor in Baroda College.
- During this period 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, and 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.
- He was prosecuted twice for sedition and once for conspiracy, he was released each time for lack of evidence.
- In 1910 he withdrew from politics and went to Pondicherry in order to devote himself entirely to his inner spiritual life and work.
- During his forty years in Pondicherry he evolved a new method of spiritual practice, which he called the Integral Yoga.
- 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.
- Among his many writings are The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga and Savitri.
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