Little Aurobindo Ghose
•Sri Aurobindo Ghose was born on 15th August, in the year 1870 at Calcutta.
•At the age of 7, he was sent to England for his formal education.
•He graduated from Cambridge, here he distinguished himself as a student of European classics. •Aurobindo was an accomplished scholar in
Greek and Latin.
•His early life and education in England, gave him an insight into the modern scientific mind and brought him into close touch with western civilization. •In 1893, Aurobindo Ghose, returned to India, he extensively studied Sanskrit, Bengali literature, Philosophy and Political Science.
•He immersed himself into Vedanta and Yoga.
Sri Aurobindo Ghose was a multifaceted person. He was a freedom fighter, poet, scholar, yogi and philosopher
• He became a dynamic and spiritually motivated leader in the pre-Gandhian struggle for freedom.
• Instead of seeing conflict between the East and
West, he evolved a synthesis of both as well of spirit and matter of science and Vedanta.
• His writings included Essays on The Gita, The Secret of The Veda, Hymns to the Mystic Fire, The
Upanishads, The Foundations of Indian Culture, War and Self-determination, The Human Cycle, The Ideal of Human Unity, and The Future Poetry.
AUROBINDO’S PHILOSOPHY
Sri Aurobindo refused to be called a philosopher.
• PHILOSOPHY WHICH HE
HAS EXPOUNDED TO THE
WORLD:
A) HIS EXPOSITION TO THE
PROCESS OF EVOLUTION: It says that there is not merely evolution of forms but also evolution of consciousness, which leads to the evolution of MATTER > LIFE >MIND
>DYNAMIC DIVINE.
B. HIS EXPLANATION OF THE ORIGIN OF
IGNORANCE:
It is ignorance that makes us feel cramped with the limitations of ego and presses us to seek knowledge.
C. THE REALM OF PSYCHOLOGY:
He brought about a dynamic and actual link with the higher levels of consciousness towards which human psychology has got to evolve. TEACHING OF SRI AUROBINDO
• Accoding to Sri Aurobindo the basis of education is the