Sri Aurobindo

Indian yogi (1872–1950)

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Sri Aurobindo

Aurobindo, c. 1900

Personal life
Born|

Aurobindo Ghose

(1872-08-15)15 August 1872

Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India

Died| 5 December 1950(1950-12-05) (aged 78)

Pondicherry, French India

Nationality| Indian
Alma mater| University of Cambridge
Relatives| Rajnarayan Basu (maternal-grandfather)
Manmohan Ghose (brother)
Barindra Kumar Ghose (brother)[1]
Signature|
Religious life
Religion| Hindu
Founder of| Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Philosophy|

* Integral yoga
* Evolutionism
* Intermediate zone
* Supermind

Senior posting

Disciples

* Champaklal, Nolini Kanta Gupta, Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya, K. D. Sethna, Nirodbaran, Pavitra, M. P. Pandit, A.B. Purani, Dilipkumar Roy, Satprem, Indra Sen

Influenced

* Mira Alfassa
Auroville
Ken Wilber
Haridas Chaudhuri

Sri Aurobindo (born Aurobindo Ghose; 15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950) was an Indian yogi, maharishi, and Indian nationalist.[2] He also edited the newspaper Bande Mataram.[3]

Aurobindo studied for the Indian Civil Service at King's College, in Cambridge, England. After returning to India, he took up various civil service works under the Maharaja of the princely state of Baroda. He became increasingly involved in nationalist politics in the Indian National Congress and the nascent revolutionary movement in Bengal with the Anushilan Samiti. He was arrested in the aftermath of a number of bombings linked to his organization in a public trial where he faced charges of treason for Alipore Conspiracy and then released, after which he moved to Pondicherry and developed a spiritual practice he called Integral Yoga. He wrote The Life Divine, which deals with the philosophical aspect of Integral Yoga[4] and Synthesis of Yoga, which deals with the principles and methods of Integral Yoga.[5] In 1926, he and Mira Alfassa founded Sri Aurobindo Ashram.

## Biography

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### Early life

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Aurobindo Ghose was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata), Bengal Presidency, India on 15 August 1872 in a Bengali Kayastha family that was associated with the town of Konnagar in the Hooghly district of present-day West Bengal.[6] His father, Krishna Dhun Ghose, was an assistant surgeon in Rangpur and later a civil surgeon in Khulna. A former member of the Brahmo Samaj, he became fascinated with the new theory of evolution while studying medicine in Edinburgh.[7][a] His mother Swarnalata Devi's father, Rajnarayan Bose, was a leading figure in the Brahmo Samaj. She had been sent to the more salubrious surroundings of Calcutta for Aurobindo's birth. Aurobindo had two elder siblings, Benoybhusan and Manmohan, a younger sister, Sarojini, and a younger brother, Barindra Kumar (also referred to as Barin).[8][9]

Aurobindo spoke English but used Hindustani to communicate with servants. Although his family was Bengali, his father believed British culture to be superior. He and his two elder siblings were sent to the English-speaking Loreto House boarding school in Darjeeling, in part to improve their language skills and in part to distance them from their mother, who had developed a mental illness soon after the birth of her first child. Darjeeling was a centre of Anglo-Indians in India, and the school was run by Irish nuns, through which the boys would have been exposed to Christian religious teachings and symbolism.[10]

### England (1879–1893)

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Aurobindo (seated centre next to his mother) and his family. In England, ca. 1879[11]

Krishna Dhun Ghose wanted his sons to enter the Indian Civil Service (ICS), an elite organisation comprising around 1000 people. To achieve this, they needed to study in England, and so it was there that the entire family moved in 1879.[12][b] The three brothers were placed in the care of the Reverend W. H. Drewett in Manchester.[12] Drewett was a minister of the Congregational Church whom Krishna Dhun Ghose knew through his British friends at Rangpur.[13][c]

The boys were taught Latin by Drewett and his wife. This was a prerequisite for admission to good English schools, and after two years, in 1881, the elder two siblings were enrolled at Manchester Grammar School. Aurobindo was considered too young for enrollment, and he continued his studies with the Drewetts, learning history, Latin, French, geography, and arithmetic. Although the Drewetts were told not to teach religion, the boys inevitably were exposed to Christian teachings and events, which generally bored Aurobindo and sometimes repulsed him. There was little contact with his father, who wrote only a few letters to his sons while they were in England, but what communication there was indicated that he was becoming less endeared to the British in India than he had been, on one occasion describing the British colonial government as "heartless".[14]

Basement of 49 St Stephen's Avenue, London W12 with Sri Aurobindo Blue Plaque

Drewett emigrated to Australia in 1884, causing the boys to be uprooted as they went to live with Drewett's mother in London. In September of that year, Aurobindo and Manmohan joined St Paul's School there.[d] He learned Greek and spent the last three years reading literature and English poetry, while he also acquired some familiarity with the German and Italian languages; Peter Heehs summarized his linguistic abilities by stating that at "the turn of the century he knew at least twelve languages: English, French, and Bengali to speak, read, and write; Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit to read and write; Gujarati, Marathi, and Hindi to speak and read; and Italian, German, and Spanish to read."[18] Being exposed to the evangelical strictures of Drewett's mother developed in him a distaste for religion, and he considered himself at one point to be an atheist but later determined that he was agnostic.[19] A blue plaque unveiled in 2007 commemorates Aurobindo's residence at 49 St Stephen's Avenue in Shepherd's Bush, London, from 1884 to 1887.[20] The three brothers began living in spartan circumstances at the Liberal Club in South Kensington during 1887, their father having experienced some financial difficulties. The club's secretary was James Cotton, brother of their father's friend in the Bengal ICS, Henry John Stedman Cotton.[21]

By 1889, Manmohan had determined to pursue a literary career, and Benoybhusan had proved himself unequal to the standards necessary for ICS entrance. This meant that only Aurobindo might fulfill his father's aspirations, but to do so when his father lacked money required that he study hard for a scholarship.[17] To become an ICS official, students were required to pass the competitive examination and study at an English university for two years under probation. Aurobindo secured a scholarship at King's College, Cambridge, under the recommendation of Oscar Browning.[22] He passed the written ICS examination after a few months and ranked 11th out of 250 competitors. He spent the next two years at King's College.[16] Aurobindo had no interest in the ICS and came to the horse-riding practical exam purposefully to disqualify him for the service.[23]In 1891, Sri Aurobindo also felt that a period of great upheaval for his motherland was coming in which he was destined to play an important role. He began to learn Bengali and joined a secret society, romantically named 'Lotus and Dagger', where the members took an oath to work for India's freedom.[24]

The Maharaja of Baroda, Sayajirao Gaekwad III, was travelling in England. Cotton secured him a place in Baroda State Service and arranged for him to meet the prince.[25] He left England for India,[25] arriving there in February 1893.[26] In India, Krishna Dhun Ghose, who was waiting to receive his son, was misinformed by his agents from Bombay (now Mumbai) that the ship on which Aurobindo had been travelling had sunk off the coast of Portugal. His father died upon hearing this news.[27][28]

### Baroda and Calcutta (1893–1910)

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Main article: Political history of Sri Aurobindo

See also: Anushilan Samiti

In Baroda, Aurobindo joined the state service in 1893, working first in the Survey and Settlements department, later moving to the Department of Revenue and then to the Secretariat, and much miscellaneous work like teaching grammar and assisting in writing speeches for the Maharaja of Gaekwad until 1897.[29] In 1897, during his work in Baroda, he started working as a part-time French teacher at Baroda College (now Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda). He was later promoted to the post of vice-principal.[30] At Baroda, Aurobindo self-studied Sanskrit and Bengali.[31]

Copy of Bande Mataram, September 1907

During his stay at Baroda, he contributed to many articles for Indu Prakash and spoke as a chairman of the Baroda college board.[32] He started taking an active interest in the politics of the Indian independence movement against British colonial rule, working behind the scenes as his position in the Baroda state administration barred him from an overt political activity. While traveling to these states, he linked up with resistance groups in Bengal and Madhya Pradesh. Aurobindo established contact with Lokmanya Tilak and Sister Nivedita.

Aurobindo often travelled between Baroda and Bengal, initially in a bid to re-establish links with his parents' families and other Bengali relatives, including his sister Sarojini and brother Barin, and later increased to establish resistance groups across the Presidency. He formally moved to Calcutta in 1906 after the announcement of the Partition of Bengal. In 1901, on a visit to Calcutta, he married 14-year-old Mrinalini, the daughter of Bhupal Chandra Bose, a senior official in government service. Aurobindo was 28 at that time. Mrinalini died seventeen years later in December 1918 during the influenza pandemic.[33]

In 1906, Aurobindo was appointed the first principal of the National College in Calcutta and started to impart national education to Indian youth.[34] He resigned from this position in August 1907, due to his increased political activity.[35] The National College continues to the present as Jadavpur University, Kolkata.[36]

Aurobindo was influenced by studies on rebellion and revolutions against England in medieval France and the revolts in America and Italy. In his public activities, he favored non-cooperation and nonviolent resistance; in private, he took up secret revolutionary activity to prepare for open revolt in case the passive uprising failed.[37]

Sri Aurobindo seated at the table, with Tilak speaking: Surat session of Congress, 1907

In Bengal, with Barin's help, he established contacts and inspired revolutionaries such as Bagha Jatin or Jatin Mukherjee and Surendranath Tagore. He helped establish a series of youth clubs, including the Anushilan Samiti of Calcutta in 1902.[38]

Aurobindo attended the 1906 Congress meeting headed by Dadabhai Naoroji and participated as a councilor in forming the fourfold objectives of "Swaraj, Swadesh, Boycott, and national education". In 1907, at the Surat session of Congress, where moderates and extremists had a major showdown, he led along with extremists and along with Bal Gangadhar Tilak. The Congress split after this session.[39] In 1907–1908, Aurobindo traveled extensively to Pune, Bombay, and Baroda to firm up support for the nationalist cause, giving speeches and meeting with groups. He was arrested again in May 1908 in connection with the Alipore Bomb Case. He was acquitted in the ensuing trial following the murder of chief prosecution witness Naren Goswami within jail premises, which subsequently led to the case against him collapsing. Aurobindo was subsequently released after a year of isolated incarceration.

Once out of prison, he started two new publications, Karmayogin in English and Dharma in Bengali. He also delivered the Uttarpara Speech, hinting at the transformation of his focus to spiritual matters. Repression from the British colonial government against him continued because of his writings in his new journals, and in April 1910, Aurobindo moved to Pondicherry, where the British colonial secret police monitored his activities.[40][41]

### Conversion from politics to spirituality

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Photographs of Aurobindo as a prisoner in Alipore Jail, 1908.

In July 1905, then Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon, partitioned Bengal. This sparked an outburst of public anger against the British, leading to civil unrest and a nationalist campaign by groups of revolutionaries that included Aurobindo. In 1908, Khudiram Bose and Prafulla Chaki attempted to kill Magistrate Kingsford, a judge known for handing down particularly severe sentences against nationalists. However, the bomb thrown at his horse carriage missed its target and instead landed in another carriage and killed two British women, the wife and daughter of barrister Pringle Kennedy. Aurobindo was also arrested on charges of planning and overseeing the attack and imprisoned in solitary confinement in Alipore Jail. The trial of the Alipore Bomb Case lasted for a year, but eventually, he was acquitted on 6 May 1909. His defense counsel was Chittaranjan Das.[42]

During this period in the Jail, his view of life was radically changed due to spiritual experiences and realizations. Consequently, his aim went far beyond the service and liberation of the country.[43]

Aurobindo said he was "visited" by Vivekananda in the Alipore Jail: "It is a fact that I was hearing constantly the voice of Vivekananda speaking to me for a fortnight in the jail in my solitary meditation and felt his presence."[44]

In his autobiographical notes, Aurobindo said he felt a vast calm when returning to India. He could not explain this and continued to have various such experiences occasionally. He knew nothing of yoga at that time and started his practice of it without a teacher, except for some rules that he learned from Mr. Devadhar, a friend who was a disciple of Swami Brahmananda of Ganga Math, Chandod.[45][46] In 1907, Barin introduced Aurobindo to Vishnu Bhaskar Lele, a Maharashtrian yogi. Aurobindo was influenced by guidance from the yogi, who instructed Aurobindo to depend on an inner guide, and any external guru or guidance would not be required.[47]

In 1910, Aurobindo withdrew himself from all political activities and went into hiding at Chandannagar in the house of Motilal Roy while the British colonial government was attempting to prosecute him for sedition based on a signed article titled "To My Countrymen", published in Karmayogin. As Aurobindo disappeared from view, the warrant was held back, and the prosecution postponed. Aurobindo maneuvered the police into open action, and a warrant was issued on 4 April 1910, but the warrant could not be executed because, on that date, he had reached Pondicherry, then a French colony.[48] The warrant against Aurobindo was withdrawn.

### Pondicherry (1910–1950)

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In Pondicherry, Sri Aurobindo dedicated himself to his spiritual and philosophical pursuits. In 1914, after four years of secluded yoga, he started a monthly philosophical magazine called Arya. This ceased publication in 1921. Many years later, he revised some of these works before they were published in book form. Some of the book series derived from this publication were The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, Essays on The Gita, The Secret of The Veda, Hymns to the Mystic Fire, The Upanishads, The Renaissance in India, War and Self-determination, The Human Cycle, The Ideal of Human Unity and The Future Poetry were published in this magazine.[49]

At the beginning of his stay at Pondicherry, there were few followers, but with time, their numbers grew, resulting in the formation of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in 1926.[50] From 1926 he started to sign himself as Sri Aurobindo, Sri being commonly used as an honorific.[51]

Sri Aurobindo on his deathbed 5 December 1950

For some time afterwards, his main literary output was his voluminous correspondence with his disciples. His letters, most of which were written in the 1930s, numbered several thousand. Many were brief comments made in the margins of his disciples' notebooks in answer to their questions and reports of their spiritual practice—others extended to several pages of carefully composed explanations of practical aspects of his teachings. These were later collected and published in book form in three volumes of Letters on Yoga. In the late 1930s, he resumed work on a poem he had started earlier—he continued to expand and revise this poem for the rest of his life.[52] It became perhaps his most outstanding literary achievement, Savitri, an epic spiritual poem in blank verse of approximately 24,000 lines.[53]

On 15 August 1947, Sri Aurobindo strongly opposed the partition of India, stating that he hoped "the Nation will not accept the settled fact as forever settled, or as anything more than a temporary expedient."[54]

Sri Aurobindo was nominated twice for the Nobel Prize without being awarded, in 1943 for the Nobel Prize in Literature and in 1950 for the Nobel Prize in Peace.[55]

Sri Aurobindo died on 5 December 1950 of uremia. Around 60,000 people attended to see his body resting peacefully.[56] Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, and the President Rajendra Prasad praised him for his contribution to Yogic philosophy and the independence movement. National and international newspapers commemorated his death.[50][57]

### Mirra Alfassa (The Mother) and the development of the Ashram

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Sri Aurobindo's close spiritual collaborator, Mirra Alfassa (born Alfassa), came to be known as The Mother.[58] She was a French national, born in Paris on 21 February 1878. In her 20s, she studied occultism with Max Theon. Along with her husband, Paul Richard, she went to Pondicherry on 29 March 1914,[59] and finally settled there in 1920. Sri Aurobindo considered her his spiritual equal and collaborator. After 24 November 1926, when Sri Aurobindo retired into seclusion, he left it to her to plan, build, and run the ashram, the community of disciples gathered around them. Sometime later, when families with children joined the ashram, she established and supervised the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education with its experiments in education. When he died in 1950, she continued their spiritual work, directed the ashram, and guided their disciples.[60]

## Philosophy

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Main article: Integral yoga

Sri Aurobindo's model of Being and Evolution[61][62]

Levels of Being | Development
Overall | Outer Being | Inner Being | Psychic Being
Supermind  | Supermind | Gnostic Man
Supra-mentalisation
Mind  |  | Overmind  | Psychisation
and
Spiritualisation
Intuition
Illuminated Mind
Higher Mind
Subconscient
mind  | Mind proper  | Subliminal
(inner)
mind  |  | Evolution
Vital  | Subconsc.
Vital  | Vital  | Subl.
(inner)
Vital
Physical  | Subconsc.
Physical  | Physical  | Subl. (inner)
Physical
Inconscient  | Inconscient

### Introduction

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Sri Aurobindo's concept of the Integral Yoga system is described in his books, The Synthesis of Yoga and The Life Divine.[63] The Life Divine is a compilation of essays published serially in Arya.

Sri Aurobindo argues that divine Brahman manifests as empirical reality through līlā, or divine play. Instead of positing that the world we experience is an illusion (māyā), Aurobindo argues that the world can evolve and become a new world with new species, far above the human species just as human species have evolved after the animal species. As such, he argued that the end goal of spiritual practice could not merely be a liberation from the world into Samadhi but would also be that of descent of the Divine into the world in order to transform it into a Divine existence. Thus, this constituted the purpose of Integral Yoga.[64] Regarding the involution of consciousness in matter, he wrote that: "This descent, this sacrifice of the Purusha, the Divine Soul submitting itself to Force and Matter so that it may inform and illuminate them is the seed of redemption of this world of Inconscience and Ignorance."[65]

Sri Aurobindo believed that Darwinism merely describes a phenomenon of the evolution of matter into life, but does not explain the reason behind it, while he finds life to be already present in matter, because all of existence is a manifestation of Brahman. He argues that nature (which he interpreted as divine) has evolved life out of matter and the mind out of life. All of existence, he argues, is attempting to manifest to the level of the supermind – that evolution had a purpose.[66] He stated that he found the task of understanding the nature of reality arduous and difficult to justify by immediate tangible results.[67]

### Supermind

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Main article: Supermind (integral yoga)

At the centre of Sri Aurobindo's metaphysical system is the supermind, an intermediary power between the unmanifested Brahman and the manifested world.[68] Sri Aurobindo claims that the supermind is not completely alien to us and can be realized within ourselves as it is always present within mind since the latter is in reality identical with the former and contains it as a potentiality within itself.[69] Sri Aurobindo does not portray supermind as an original invention of his own but believes it can be found in the Vedas and that the Vedic Gods represent powers of the supermind.[70] In The Integral Yoga he declares that "By the supermind is meant the full Truth-Consciousness of the Divine Nature in which there can be no place for the principle of division and ignorance; it is always a full light and knowledge superior to all mental substance or mental movement."[71] Supermind is a bridge between Sachchidananda and the lower manifestation and it is only through the supramental that mind, life and body can be spiritually transformed as opposed to through Sachchidananda[72] The descent of supermind will mean the creation of a supramental race[73]

### Affinity with Western philosophy

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In his writings, talks, and letters Sri Aurobindo has referred to several European philosophers with whose basic concepts he was familiar, commenting on their ideas and discussing the question of affinity to his own line of thought. Thus, he wrote a long essay on the Greek philosopher Heraclitus[74] and mentioned especially Plato, Plotinus, Nietzsche and Bergson as thinkers in whom he was interested because of their more intuitive approach.[75] On the other hand, he felt little attraction for the philosophy of Kant or Hegel.[76] Several studies[77] have shown a remarkable closeness to the evolutionary thought of Teilhard de Chardin, whom he did not know, whereas the latter came to know of Sri Aurobindo at a late stage. After reading some chapters of The Life Divine, he is reported to have said that Sri Aurobindo's vision of evolution was basically the same as his own, though stated for Asian readers.[78][79]

Several scholars have discovered significant similarities in the thought of Sri Aurobindo and Hegel. Steve Odin has discussed this subject comprehensively in a comparative study.[80] Odin writes that Sri Aurobindo "has appropriated Hegel’s notion of an Absolute Spirit and employed it to radically restructure the architectonic framework of the ancient Hindu Vedanta system in contemporary terms."[81] In his analysis Odin arrives at the conclusion that "both philosophers similarly envision world creation as the progressive self-manifestation and evolutionary ascent of a universal consciousness in its journey toward Self-realization."[82] He points out that in contrast to the deterministic and continuous dialectal unfolding of Absolute Reason by the mechanism of thesis-antithesis-synthesis or affirmation-negation-integration, "Sri Aurobindo argues for a creative, emergent mode of evolution."[82] In his résumé Odin states that Sri Aurobindo has overcome the ahistorical world-vision of traditional Hinduism and presented a concept which allows for a genuine advance and novelty.[83]

### Importance of the Upanishads

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Although Sri Aurobindo was familiar with the most important lines of thought in Western philosophy, he did not acknowledge their influence on his own writings.[84] He wrote that his philosophy "was formed first by the study of the Upanishads and the Gita … They were the basis of my first practice of Yoga." With the help of his readings he tried to move on to actual experience, "and it was on this experience that later on I founded my philosophy, not on ideas themselves."[85]

He assumes that the seers of the Upanishads had basically the same approach and gives some details of his vision of the past in a long passage in The Renaissance of India. "The Upanishads have been the acknowledged source of numerous profound philosophies and religions", he writes. Even Buddhism with all its developments was only a "restatement" from a new standpoint and with fresh terms. And, furthermore, the ideas of the Upanishads "can be rediscovered in much of the thought of Pythagoras and Plato and form the profound part of Neo-platonism and Gnosticism ..." Finally, the larger part of German metaphysics "is little more in substance than an intellectual development of great realities more spiritually seen in this ancient teaching."[86] When once he was asked by a disciple whether Plato got some of his ideas from Indian books, he responded that though something of the philosophy of India got through "by means of Pythagoras and others", he assumed that Plato got most of his ideas from intuition.[87]

Sri Aurobindo's indebtedness to the Indian tradition also becomes obvious through his placing a large number of quotations from the Rig Veda, the Upanishads and the Bhagavadgita at the beginning of the chapters in The Life Divine, showing the connection of his own thought to Veda and Vedanta.[88][89]

The Isha Upanishad is considered to be one of the most important and more accessible writings of Sri Aurobindo.[90] Before he published his final translation and analysis, he wrote ten incomplete commentaries.[91] In a key passage he points out that the Brahman or Absolute is both the Stable and the Moving. "We must see it in eternal and immutable Spirit and in all the changing manifestations of universe and relativity."[90][92] Sri Aurobindo's biographer K.R.S. Iyengar quotes R.S. Mugali as stating that Sri Aurobindo might have obtained in this Upanishad the thought-seed which later grew into The Life Divine.[93]

### Synthesis and integration

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Sisir Kumar Maitra, who was a leading exponent of Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy,[94] has referred to the issue of external influences and written that Sri Aurobindo does not mention names, but "as one reads his books one cannot fail to notice how thorough is his grasp of the great Western philosophers of the present age..." Although he is Indian one should not "underrate the influence of Western thought upon him. This influence is there, very clearly visible, but Sri Aurobindo... has not allowed himself to be dominated by it. He has made full use of Western thought, but he has made use of it for the purpose of building up his own system..."[95] Thus Maitra, like Steve Odin,[96] sees Sri Aurobindo not only in the tradition and context of Indian, but also Western philosophy and assumes he may have adopted some elements from the latter for his synthesis.

R. Puligandla supports this viewpoint in his book Fundamentals of Indian Philosophy. He describes Sri Aurobindo's philosophy as "an original synthesis of the Indian and Western traditions." "He integrates in a unique fashion the great social, political and scientific achievements of the modern West with the ancient and profound spiritual insights of Hinduism. The vision that powers the life divine of Aurobindo is none other than the Upanishadic vision of the unity of all existence."[97]

Puligandla also discusses Sri Aurobindo's critical position vis-à-vis Shankara[98] and his thesis that the latter's Vedanta is a world-negating philosophy, as it teaches that the world is unreal and illusory. From Puligandla's standpoint this is a misrepresentation of Shankara's position, which may have been caused by Sri Aurobindo's endeavour to synthesize Hindu and Western modes of thought, identifying Shankara's Mayavada with the subjective idealism of George Berkeley.[97]

However, Sri Aurobindo's critique of Shankara is supported by U. C. Dubey in his paper titled Integralism: The Distinctive Feature of Sri Aurobindo’s Philosophy. He points out that Sri Aurobindo's system presents an integral view of Reality where there is no opposition between the Absolute and its creative force, as they are actually one. Furthermore, he refers to Sri Aurobindo's conception of the supermind as the mediatory principle between the Absolute and the finite world and quotes S.K. Maitra stating that this conception "is the pivot round which the whole of Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy moves."[99]

Dubey proceeds to analyse the approach of the Shankarites and believes that they follow an inadequate kind of logic that does not do justice to the challenge of tackling the problem of the Absolute, which cannot be known by finite reason. With the help of the finite reason, he says, "we are bound to determine the nature of reality as one or many, being or becoming. But Sri Aurobindo's Integral Advaitism reconciles all apparently different aspects of Existence in an all-embracing unity of the Absolute." Next, Dubey explains that for Sri Aurobindo there is a higher reason, the "logic of the infinite" in which his integralism is rooted.[99]

## Legacy

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Sri Aurobindo on a 1964 Indian stamp

### Influence

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His influence has been wide-ranging. In India, S. K. Maitra, Anilbaran Roy and D. P. Chattopadhyaya commented on Sri Aurobindo's work. Writers on esotericism and traditional wisdom, such as Mircea Eliade, Paul Brunton, and Rene Guenon, all saw him as an authentic representative of the Indian spiritual tradition.[100] Though Rene Guenon thought Sri Aurobindo's thoughts were betrayed by some of his followers and that some works published under his name were not authentic, since not traditional.[101][102]

Haridas Chaudhuri and Frederic Spiegelberg[103] were among those who were inspired by Aurobindo, who worked on the newly formed American Academy of Asian Studies in San Francisco. Soon after, Chaudhuri and his wife Bina established the Cultural Integration Fellowship, from which later emerged the California Institute of Integral Studies.[104]

Sri Aurobindo influenced Subhash Chandra Bose to take an initiative of dedicating to Indian National Movement full-time. Bose writes, "The illustrious example of Arabindo Ghosh looms large before my vision. I feel that I am ready to make the sacrifice which that example demands of me."[105]

Karlheinz Stockhausen was heavily inspired by Satprem's writings about Sri Aurobindo during a week in May 1968, a time at which the composer was undergoing a personal crisis and had found Sri Aurobindo's philosophies were relevant to his feelings. After this experience, Stockhausen's music took a completely different turn, focusing on mysticism, that was to continue until the end of his career.[106]

Jean Gebser acknowledged Sri Aurobindo's influence on his work and referred to him several times in his writings. Thus, in The Invisible Origin he quotes a long passage from The Synthesis of Yoga.[107] Gebser believes that he was "in some way brought into the extremely powerful spiritual field of force radiating through Sri Aurobindo."[108][109] In his title Asia Smiles Differently he reports about his visit to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and meeting with the Mother whom he calls an "exceptionally gifted person."[110][111]

After meeting Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry in 1915, the Danish author and artist Johannes Hohlenberg published one of the first Yoga titles in Europe and later on wrote two essays on Sri Aurobindo. He also published extracts from The Life Divine in Danish translation.[112]

The Chilean Nobel Prize winner Gabriela Mistral called Sri Aurobindo "a unique synthesis of a scholar, a theologian and one who is enlightened." "The gift of Civil Leadership, the gift of Spiritual Guidance, the gift of Beautiful Expression: this is the trinity, the three lances of light with which Sri Aurobindo has reached the great number of Indians..."[113]

William Irwin Thompson travelled to Auroville in 1972, where he met "The Mother". Thompson has called Sri Aurobindo's teaching on spirituality a "radical anarchism" and a "post-religious approach" and regards their work as having "... reached back into the Goddess culture of prehistory, and, in Marshall McLuhan's terms, 'culturally retrieved' the archetypes of the shaman and la sage femme... " Thompson also writes that he experienced Shakti, or psychic power coming from The Mother on the night of her death in 1973.[114]

Sri Aurobindo's ideas about the further evolution of human capabilities influenced the thinking of Michael Murphy – and indirectly, the human potential movement, through Murphy's writings.[115]

The American philosopher Ken Wilber has called Sri Aurobindo "India's greatest modern philosopher sage"[116] and has integrated some of his ideas into his philosophical vision. Wilber's interpretation of Aurobindo has been criticised by Rod Hemsell.[117] New Age writer Andrew Harvey also looks to Sri Aurobindo as a major inspiration.[118]

### Followers

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The following authors, disciples and organisations trace their intellectual heritage back to, or have in some measure been influenced by, Sri Aurobindo and The Mother.

* Nolini Kanta Gupta (1889–1983) was one of Sri Aurobindo's senior disciples, and wrote extensively on philosophy, mysticism, and spiritual evolution based on the teaching of Sri Aurobindo and "The Mother".[119]
* Nirodbaran (1903–2006). A doctor who obtained his medical degree from Edinburgh, his long and voluminous correspondence with Sri Aurobindo elaborates on many aspects of Integral Yoga and fastidious record of conversations brings out Sri Aurobindo's thought on numerous subjects.[120]
* M. P. Pandit (1918–1993). Secretary to "The Mother" and the ashram, his copious writings and lectures cover Yoga, the Vedas, Tantra, Sri Aurobindo's epic "Savitri" and others.
* Sri Chinmoy (1931–2007) joined the ashram in 1944. Later, he wrote the play about Sri Aurobindo's life – Sri Aurobindo: Descent of the Blue – and a book, Infinite: Sri Aurobindo.[121] An author, composer, artist and athlete, he was perhaps best known for holding public events on the theme of inner peace and world harmony (such as concerts, meditations, and races).[122][better source needed]
* Pavitra (1894–1969) was one of their early disciples. Born as Philippe Barbier Saint-Hilaire in Paris. Pavitra left some very interesting memoirs of his conversations with them in 1925 and 1926, which were published as Conversations avec Pavitra.[123]
* Dilipkumar Roy (1897–1980) was an Indian Bengali musician, musicologist, novelist, poet and essayist.
* T.V. Kapali Sastry (1886–1953) was an eminent author and Sanskrit scholar. He joined the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in 1929 and wrote books and articles in four languages, exploring especially Sri Aurobindo's Vedic interpretations.
* Satprem (1923–2007) was a French author and an important disciple of "The Mother" who published Mother's Agenda (1982), Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness (2000), On the Way to Supermanhood (2002) and more.[124]
* Indra Sen (1903–1994) was another disciple of Sri Aurobindo who, although little-known in the West, was the first to articulate integral psychology and integral philosophy, in the 1940s and 1950s. A compilation of his papers came out under the title, Integral Psychology in 1986.[125]
* K. D. Sethna (1904–2011) was an Indian poet, scholar, writer, cultural critic and disciple of Sri Aurobindo. For several decades he was the editor of the Ashram journal Mother India.[126]
* Margaret Woodrow Wilson (Nistha) (1886–1944), daughter of US President Woodrow Wilson, came to the ashram in 1938 and stayed there until her death.[127] She helped to prepare a revised edition of The Life Divine.[128]
* Xu Fancheng (Hsu Hu) (26 October 1909, Changsha – 6 March 2000, Beijing), Chinese Sanskrit scholar, came to Ashram in 1951 and became a devotee of Sri Aurobindo and a follower of The Mother. For 27 years (1951–78) he lived at Pondicherry and devoted himself to translating the complete works of Sri Aurobindo under the guidance of The Mother.

### Critics

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* Adi Da finds that Sri Aurobindo's contributions were merely literary and cultural and had extended his political motivation into spirituality and human evolution.[129]
* N. R. Malkani finds Sri Aurobindo's theory of creation to be false, as the theory talks about experiences and visions which are beyond normal human experiences. He says the theory is an intellectual response to a difficult problem and that Sri Aurobindo uses the trait of unpredictability in theorising and discussing things not based upon the truth of existence. Malkani says that awareness is already a reality and suggests there would be no need to examine the creative activity subjected to awareness.[130]
* Ken Wilber's interpretation of Sri Aurobindo's philosophy differed from the notion of dividing reality as a different level of matter, life, mind, overmind, and supermind proposed by Sri Aurobindo in The Life Divine, and terms them as higher- or lower-nested holons and states that there is only a fourfold reality (a system of reality created by himself).[131]
* Rajneesh (Osho), in response to his devotees that "Sri Aurobindo says there is something more than the enlightenment of Gautam Buddha", stated that Sri Aurobindo "knows everything about enlightenment, but he is not enlightened."[132]

## In popular culture

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The 1970 Indian Bengali-language biographical drama film Mahabiplabi Aurobindo, directed by Dipak Gupta, depicted Sri Aurobindo's life on screen.[133] On the 72nd Republic Day of India, the Ministry of Culture presented a tableau on his life.[134] On 15 August 2023, a short animation film Sri Aurobindo: A New Dawn was released.[135][136]

## Literature

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### Indian editions

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* A first edition of collected works was published in 1972 in 30 volumes: Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library (SABCL), Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram.[137]
* A new edition of collected works was started in 1995. Currently, 36 out of 37 volumes have been published: Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo (CWSA). Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram.[138][139]

### American edition

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#### Main works

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* Sri Aurobindo Primary Works Set 12 vol. US Edition, Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-941524-93-0
* Sri Aurobindo Selected Writings Software CD-ROM, Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-914955-88-8
* The Life Divine, Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-941524-61-2
* Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol, Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-941524-80-9
* The Synthesis of Yoga, Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-941524-65-5
* Essays on the Gita, Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-914955-18-7
* The Ideal of Human Unity, Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-914955-43-8
* The Human Cycle: The Psychology of Social Development, Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-914955-44-6
* The Human Cycle, Ideal of Human Unity, War and Self Determination, Lotus Press. ISBN 81-7058-014-5
* The Upanishads, Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-914955-23-3
* Secret of the Veda, Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-914955-19-5
* Hymns to the Mystic Fire, Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-914955-22-5
* The Mother, Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-941524-79-5

#### Compilations and secondary literature

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* The Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo's Teaching and Method of Practice, Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-941524-76-0
* The Future Evolution of Man, Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-940985-55-1
* The Essential Aurobindo – Writings of Sri Aurobindo ISBN 978-0-9701097-2-9
* Bhagavad Gita and Its Message, Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-941524-78-7
* The Mind of Light, Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-940985-70-5
* Rebirth and Karma, Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-941524-63-9
* Hour of God by Sri Aurobindo, Lotus Press. ISBN 81-7058-217-2
* Dictionary of Sri Aurobindo's Yoga, (compiled by M. P. Pandit), Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-941524-74-4
* Vedic Symbolism, Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-941524-30-2
* The Powers Within, Lotus Press. ISBN 978-0-941524-96-4
* Reading Sri Aurobindo, Penguin Random House India. ISBN 978-0670097036

### Comparative studies

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* Hemsell, Rod (Oct. 2014). The Philosophy of Evolution. Auro-e-Books, E-Book
* Hemsell, Rod (Dec. 2014). Sri Aurobindo and the Logic of the Infinite: Essays for the New Millennium. Auro-e-Books, E-Book
* Hemsell, Rod (2017). The Philosophy of Consciousness: Hegel and Sri Aurobindo. E-Book
* Huchzermeyer, Wilfried (Oct. 2018). Sri Aurobindo’s Commentaries on Krishna, Buddha, Christ and Ramakrishna. Their Role in the Evolution of Humanity. edition sawitri, E-Book
* Johnston, David T. (Nov. 2016) Jung's Global Vision: Western Psyche, Eastern Mind, With References to Sri Aurobindo, Integral Yoga, The Mother. Agio Publishing House, ISBN 9781927755211
* Johnston, David T. (Dec. 2016). Prophets in Our Midst: Jung, Tolkien, Gebser, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Universe, E-Book
* Singh, Satya Prakash (2013). Nature of God. A Comparative Study in Sri Aurobindo and Whitehead. Antrik Express Digital, E-Book
* Singh, Satya Prakash (2005). Sri Aurobindo, Jung and Vedic Yoga. Mira Aditi Centre, ISBN 9788187471127
* Eric M. Weiss (2003): The Doctrine of the Subtle Worlds. Sri Aurobindo’s Cosmology, Modern Science and the Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead, Dissertation (PDF; 1,3 MB), California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco

## See also

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* Integral psychology

## References

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Notes

1. ^ Aurobindo described his father as a "tremendous atheist" but Thakur calls him an agnostic and Heehs believes that he followed his own coda.[8][9]
2. ^ Krishna Dhun Ghose returned to India soon after, leaving his wife in the care of a physician in London. Barindra was born in England in January 1880.[11]
3. ^ While in Manchester, the Ghose brothers lived first at 84 Shakespeare Street and then, by the time of the 1881 census, at 29 York Place, Chorlton-on-Medlock. Aurobindo was recorded in the census as Aravinda Ghose, as he was also by the University of Cambridge.[14][15][16]
4. ^ Benoybhusan's education ended in Manchester.[17]

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57. ^ Heehs (2008), pp. 411–412: "On the morning of December 6, 1950 all of the major newspapers of the country announced the passing of Sri Aurobindo ... President Rajendra Prasad, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, central and state ministers ... recalled his contribution to the struggle for freedom, his philosophical and other writings, and the example of his yogic discipline. Abroad, his death was noted by newspapers in London, Paris and New York. A writer in the Manchester Guardian called him 'the most massive philosophical thinker that modern India has produced.'"
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83. ^ Odin, p. 190
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86. ^ CWSA, vol. 20, p. 330
87. ^ CWSA vol. 27, Letters on Poetry and Art, p. 520.
88. ^ Huchzermeyer 2016, p. 10.
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## Further reading

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* Iyengar, K. R. Srinivasa (1985) [1945]. Sri Aurobindo: a biography and a history. Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. (2 volumes, 1945) – written in a hagiographical style
* Kallury, Syamala (1989). Symbolism in the Poetry of Sri Aurobindo. Abhinav Publications. ISBN 978-81-7017-257-4.
* Kitaeff, Richard. "Sri Aurobindo". Nouvelles Clés (62): 58–61.
* Mishra, Manoj Kumar (2004). Young Aurobindo's Vision: The Viziers of Bassora. Bareilly: Prakash Book Depot. Archived from the original on 24 December 2018. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
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## External links

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Integral Yoga

Founders|

* Sri Aurobindo
* Mirra Alfassa (The Mother)

Concepts and works|

* Supermind (integral yoga)
* Intermediate zone
* Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
* Record of Yoga

Institutions|

* Sri Aurobindo Ashram
* Auroville
* California Institute of Integral Studies

Important places|

* Auroville
* Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry
* Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Rewa
* Matrimandir

Associated figures|

* Satprem
* Champaklal
* N.K. Gupta
* Amal Kiran
* Nirodbaran
* Pavitra
* M.P. Pandit
* A.B. Purani
* D.K. Roy
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Hindu reform movements

Reform movements|

* Adi Dharm/Brahmoism
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* Satsang
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Topics|

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* A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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* Aurobindo
* Boro Maa
* Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
* BK Shivani
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* Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
* Chinmayananda Saraswati
* Chinna Jeeyar
* Chinmoy
* Dayananda Saraswati
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* Mirra Alfassa
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* Samavedam Shanmukha Sarma
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* Sivananda
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* Mahendranath Gupta
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* A. G. Mohan
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* Swami Prabhavananda
* A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
* Krishna Prem
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* Srivatsa Ramaswami
* Swami Ramdas
* Chinmayananda Saraswati
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* Krishnananda Saraswati
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* Swami Satprakashananda
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Political writers|

* Mahatma Gandhi
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* Bal Gangadhar Tilak
* Kartik Oraon
* Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
* Jaswant Singh

Literary writers|

* Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
* Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
* C. Rajagopalachari
* K. D. Sethna
* Amish Tripathi
* Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

Westerners influenced
by Hinduism|

* Annie Besant
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* Ken Wilber
* W. B. Yeats

Scholars|

* Alain Daniélou
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* Paul Deussen
* Dharampal
* Mircea Eliade
* Sister Gargi
* Georg Feuerstein
* Meenakshi Jain
* Klaus Klostermaier
* Hajime Nakamura
* Anantanand Rambachan
* Arvind Sharma
* Graham Schweig

Lists|

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* Hinduism Portal
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History|

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Philosophies
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Events and
movements|

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Organisations|

* All India Kisan Sabha
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* more

Social
reformers|

* Ashfaqulla Khan
* A. Vaidyanatha Iyer
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* B. R. Ambedkar
* Baba Amte
* Bal Gangadhar Tilak
* Dayananda Saraswati
* Dhondo Keshav Karve
* G. Subramania Iyer
* Gazulu Lakshminarasu Chetty
* Gopal Ganesh Agarkar
* Gopal Hari Deshmukh
* Gopaldas Ambaidas Desai
* Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
* J. B. Kripalani
* Jyotirao Phule
* Kandukuri Veeresalingam
* Mahadev Govind Ranade
* Mahatma Gandhi
* Muthulakshmi Reddy
* Narayana Guru
* Niralamba Swami
* Pandita Ramabai
* Periyar
* Ram Mohan Roy
* Rettamalai Srinivasan
* Sahajanand Saraswati
* Savitribai Phule
* Shahu
* Sister Nivedita
* Sri Aurobindo
* Syed Ahmad Khan
* Vakkom Moulavi
* Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
* Vinoba Bhave
* Vitthal Ramji Shinde
* Vivekananda

Independence
activists|

* Abul Kalam Azad
* Accamma Cherian
* Achyut Patwardhan
* A. K. Fazlul Huq
* Alluri Sitarama Raju
* Annapurna Maharana
* Annie Besant
* Ashfaqulla Khan
* Babu Kunwar Singh
* Bagha Jatin
* Bahadur Shah II
* Bakht Khan
* Bal Gangadhar Tilak
* Basawon Singh
* Begum Hazrat Mahal
* Bhagat Singh
* Bharathidasan
* Bhavabhushan Mitra
* Bhikaiji Cama
* Bhupendra Kumar Datta
* Bidhan Chandra Roy
* Bipin Chandra Pal
* C. Rajagopalachari
* Chandra Shekhar Azad
* Chetram Jatav
* Chittaranjan Das
* Dadabhai Naoroji
* Dayananda Saraswati
* Dhan Singh
* Dukkipati Nageswara Rao
* Gopal Krishna Gokhale
* Govind Ballabh Pant
* Har Dayal
* Hemu Kalani
* Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi
* Jatindra Mohan Sengupta
* Jatindra Nath Das
* Jawaharlal Nehru
* K. Kamaraj
* Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
* Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
* Khudiram Bose
* Shri Krishna Singh
* Lala Lajpat Rai
* M. Bhaktavatsalam
* M. N. Roy
* Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi
* Mahadaji Shinde
* Mahatma Gandhi
* Mangal Pandey
* Mir Qasim
* Mithuben Petit
* Mohammad Ali Jauhar
* Muhammad Ali Jinnah
* Muhammad Mian Mansoor Ansari
* Nagnath Naikwadi
* Nana Fadnavis
* Nana Saheb
* P. Kakkan
* Prafulla Chaki
* Pritilata Waddedar
* Purushottam Das Tandon
* Rafi Ahmed Kidwai
* R. Venkataraman
* Rahul Sankrityayan
* Rajendra Prasad
* Ram Prasad Bismil
* Rani Lakshmibai
* Rash Behari Bose
* Sahajanand Saraswati
* Sangolli Rayanna
* Sarojini Naidu
* Satyapal Dang
* Shuja-ud-Daula
* Shyamji Krishna Varma
* Sibghatullah Shah Rashidi
* Siraj ud-Daulah
* Subhas Chandra Bose
* Subramania Bharati
* Subramaniya Siva
* Surya Sen
* Syama Prasad Mukherjee
* Tara Rani Srivastava
* Tarak Nath Das
* Tatya Tope
* Tiruppur Kumaran
* Ubaidullah Sindhi
* V. O. Chidamabaram
* V. K. Krishna Menon
* Vallabhbhai Patel
* Vanchinathan
* Veeran Sundaralingam
* Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
* Virendranath Chattopadhyaya
* Yashwantrao Holkar
* Yogendra Shukla
* more

British leaders|

* Wavell
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* Irwin
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* Curzon
* Ripon
* Minto
* Dalhousie
* Bentinck
* Mountbatten
* Wellesley
* Lytton
* Clive
* Outram
* Cripps
* Linlithgow
* Hastings

Independence|

* Cabinet Mission
* Constitution
* Republic of India
* Indian annexation of Goa
* Indian Independence Act
* Partition of India
* Political integration
* Simla Conference

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* e

Indian Revolutionary Movement

Organizations|

* Abhinav Bharat Society
* Anushilan Samiti
* Bengal Volunteers
* Berlin Committee
* Communist Consolidation
* Dhaka Anushilan Samiti
* Ghadar Party
* Hindustan Socialist Republican Association
* India House
* Jugantar (Yugantar)
* Naujawan Bharat Sabha
* Paris Indian Society
* Workers and Peasants Party

People|

* Abinash Chandra Bhattacharya
* Ambika Chakrabarty
* Ajoy Ghosh
* Alluri Sitarama Raju
* Anant Laxman Kanhere
* Ananta Singh
* Anantahari Mitra
* Ananga Mohan Dam
* Ashfaqulla Khan
* Atul Krishna Ghosh
* Badal Gupta
* Bagha Jatin
* Baikuntha Shukla
* Banwari Lal
* Basanta Kumar Biswas
* Basawon Singh
* Batukeshwar Dutt
* Benoy Basu
* Bhagat Singh
* Bhagwan Singh Gyanee
* Bhagwati Charan Vohra
* Bhai Balmukund
* Bhai Parmanand
* Bhupendra Kumar Datta
* Bhupendranath Datta
* Bhavabhushan Mitra
* Bina Das
* Binod Bihari Chowdhury
* Bipin Behari Ganguli
* Chempakaraman Pillai
* Chandra Shekhar Azad
* Chittapriya Ray Chaudhuri
* Deba Gupta
* Dinesh Gupta
* Dinesh Chandra Majumdar
* Durgawati Devi
* Ganesh Damodar Savarkar
* Ganesh Ghosh
* Gaya Prasad Katiyar
* Gulab Kaur
* Guran Ditt Kumar
* Har Dayal
* Hare Krishna Konar
* Haridas Dutta
* Harigopal Bal
* Hari Kishan Talwar
* Harnam Singh Saini
* Hemchandra Kanungo
* Hemu Kalani
* Jadugopal Mukherjee
* Jatindra Nath Das
* Jiban Ghoshal
* Jnanendra Das Gupta
* Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee
* Kanailal Dutta
* Kalpana Datta
* Kalyani Das
* Krishnaji Gopal Karve
* Kartar Singh Sarabha
* Kishori Lal
* Khudiram Bose
* Kunwar Pratap Singh Barhath
* Kushal Konwar
* Lokenath Bal
* Madan Lal Dhingra
* Mahavir Singh
* Manmath Nath Gupta
* Manindranath Bannerjee
* Manoranjan Bhattacharya
* Matangini Hazra
* Mohit Moitra
* Mohan Kishore Namadas
* Motilal Roy
* M. P. T. Acharya
* Mukundi Lal
* Munsha Singh Dukhi
* Narendra Mohan Sen
* Niralamba Swami
* Niranjan Sengupta
* Nirmal Jibon Ghosh
* Pandit Kanshi Ram
* Panchanan Chakraborty
* Pandurang Mahadev Bapat
* Pandurang Sadashiv Khankhoje
* Prafulla Chaki
* Pramod Ranjan Choudhury
* Pratul Chandra Ganguli
* Pradyot Kumar Bhattacharya
* Prem Krishna Khanna
* Pritilata Waddedar
* Pulin Behari Das
* P. V. Kurian
* Rajat Sen
* Rajendra Lahiri
* Ram Chandra Bharadwaj
* Ramakrishna Biswas
* Ram Prasad Bismil
* Ram Rakha
* Rash Behari Bose
* Roshan Singh
* Sachindra Bakshi
* Sachindra Nath Sanyal
* Santosh Kumar Mitra
* Satyendranath Bosu
* Satish Sardar
* Shiv Verma
* Shivaram Rajguru
* Shrish Chandra Ghosh
* Shyamji Krishna Varma
* Sohan Singh Bhakna
* Sohanlal Pathak
* Sri Aurobindo
* Srish Pal
* Subodh Roy
* Sukhdev Thapar
* Suniti Choudhury
* Surya Sen
* Tarak Nath Das
* Tarakeswar Dastidar
* Tarakeswar Sengupta
* Thakur Kesari Singh Barhath
* Thakur Zorawar Singh Barhath
* Udham Singh
* Ullaskar Dutta
* V. V. S. Aiyar
* Vanchinathan
* Veer Bhai Kotwal
* Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
* Virendranath Chattopadhyaya
* Vishnu Ganesh Pingle
* Vishwanath Vaishampayan
* Yogendra Shukla

Publications|

* Bande Mataram
* Bande Mataram (Paris)
* Hindustan Ghadar
* Jugantar Patrika

Events|

* Alipore Bomb case
* Barisal Conspiracy Case
* Chittagong Armoury Raid
* Christmas Day Plot
* Delhi conspiracy case
* Delhi Conspiracy Commission
* Ghadar Mutiny
* Hindu–German Conspiracy Trial
* Howrah-Sibpur Conspiracy case
* Kakori conspiracy
* Lahore Conspiracy Case trial
* Rodda company arms heist

* v
* t
* e

Indian philosophy

Topics|

* Atheism
* Atomism
* Idealism
* Logic
* Monotheism
* Vedic philosophy
* Kama
* Artha
* Moksha

Ancient|

| Āstika|

* Hindu: Samkhya
* Nyaya
* Vaisheshika
* Yoga
* Mīmāṃsā
* Vedanta
* Shaiva
* Raseśvara
* Pashupata Shaivism
* Pāṇiniya

|

Nāstika|

* Ājīvika
* Ajñana
* Charvaka
* Jain
* Anekantavada
* Syādvāda
* Buddhist philosophy and Early Buddhist schools
* Śūnyatā
* Madhyamaka
* Yogachara
* Sautrāntika
* Svatantrika

Medieval|

* Vedanta
* Acintya bheda abheda
* Advaita
* Bhedabheda
* Dvaita
* Svabhavika Bhedabheda
* Shuddhadvaita
* Vishishtadvaita
* Navya-Nyāya
* Sikh Philosophy
* Shaiva
* Pratyabhijna
* Pashupata Shaivism
* Shaiva Siddhanta

Modern|

* Integral yoga
* Gandhism
* Radical Humanism
* Progressive utilization theory

Texts|

* Abhinavabharati
* Arthashastra
* Bhagavad Gita
* Bhagavata Purana
* Brahma Sutra
* Buddhist texts
* Dharmashastra
* Hindu texts
* Jain Agamas
* Kamasutra
* Mimamsa Sutras
* All 108 texts
* Principal
* Nyāya Sūtras
* Nyayakusumanjali
* Panchadasi
* Samkhyapravachana Sutra
* Sangam texts
* Sarvadarsanasangraha
* Shiva Sutras
* Tarka-Sangraha
* Tattvacintāmaṇi
* Tirukkuṟaḷ
* Upanishads
* Minor
* Vaiśeṣika Sūtra
* Vedangas
* Vedas
* Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
* Yoga Vasistha
* More...

Philosophers|

* Adi Shankara
* Abhinavagupta
* Kumārila Bhaṭṭa
* Maṇḍana Miśra
* Valluvar
* Avatsara
* Vāchaspati Misra
* Uddalaka Aruni
* Gautama Buddha
* Yājñavalkya
* Gārgī Vāchaknavī
* Buddhaghosa
* Patañjali
* Kanada
* Kapila
* Brihadratha Ikshvaku
* Jaimini
* Vyasa
* Chanakya
* Dharmakirti
* Akshapada Gotama
* Nagarjuna
* Padmasambhāva
* Vasubandhu
* Gaudapada
* Ramana Maharshi
* Vivekananda
* Dayananda Saraswati
* Ramanuja
* Vedanta Desika
* Raikva
* Sadananda
* Sakayanya
* Satyakama Jabala
* Madhvacharya
* Mahavira
* Guru Nanak
* More...

Concepts|

* Abhava
* Abhasavada
* Abheda
* Adarsana
* Adrishta
* Advaita
* Aham
* Ahimsa
* Aishvarya
* Akrodha
* Aksara
* Anatta
* Ananta
* Anavastha
* Anupalabdhi
* Apauruṣheyā
* Artha
* Asiddhatva
* Asatkalpa
* Ātman
* Avyakta
* Bhrama
* Brahman
* Bhuman
* Bhumika
* Catuṣkoṭi
* Chaitanya
* Chidabhasa
* Cittabhumi
* Dāna
* Devatas
* Dharma
* Dhi
* Dravya
* Dhrti
* Ekagrata
* Guṇa
* Hitā
* Idam
* Ikshana
* Ishvaratva
* Jivatva
* Kama
* Karma
* Kasaya
* Kshetrajna
* Lakshana
* Matsya Nyaya
* Mithyatva
* Mokṣa
* Nididhyasana
* Nirvāṇa
* Nishkama Karma
* Niyama
* Padārtha
* Paramatman
* Paramananda
* Parameshashakti
* Parinama-vada
* Pradhana
* Prajna
* Prakṛti
* Pratibimbavada
* Pratītyasamutpāda
* Puruṣa
* Rājamaṇḍala
* Ṛta
* Sakshi
* Samadhi
* Saṃsāra
* Satya
* Satkaryavada
* Shabda Brahman
* Sphoṭa
* Sthiti
* Śūnyatā
* Sutram
* Svātantrya
* Iccha-mrityu
* Syādvāda
* Taijasa
* Tajjalan
* Tanmatra
* Tyāga
* Uparati
* Upekkhā
* Utsaha
* Vivartavada
* Viraj
* Yamas
* Yoga
* More...

* v
* t
* e

Bengal Renaissance

People|

* Sri Aurobindo
* Atul Prasad Sen
* Rajnarayan Basu
* Debendra Mohan Bose
* Jagadish Chandra Bose
* Subhash Chandra Bose
* Satyendra Nath Bose
* Madhusudan Gupta
* Bethune
* Upendranath Brahmachari
* Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
* Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
* Akshay Kumar Datta
* Henry Derozio
* Alexander Duff
* Michael Madhusudan Dutt
* Romesh Chunder Dutt
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* Ramgopal Ghosh
* David Hare
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* Eugène Lafont
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Culture|

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* Satyagraha
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* Yogoda Satsanga
* Swadeshi
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* Young Bengal

Education|

* Chittagong College
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* Presidency University
* University of Calcutta
* Bethune College
* University of Dhaka
* Visva-Bharati University
* Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine

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Gurus|

* Amrit Desai
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* Aurobindo
* Beryl Birch
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* Bikram Choudhury
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* Kriyananda
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* Vishnudevananda
* Vivekananda
* Yogananda
* Yogendra

Related|

* Guru
* Modern yoga
* Post-lineage yoga
* Yoga as exercise
* Sexual abuse by yoga gurus

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Swami Vivekananda

Biography|

* Birthplace
* Prayer to Kali at Dakshineswar
* Baranagar Math
* Swami Vivekananda's travels in India (1888–1893)
* Teachers
* Ramakrishna
* Sarada Devi
* Relationship with Ramakrishna
* at the Parliament of the World's Religions (1893)
* in California

Works and
philosophy|

| Teachings and
philosophy|

* Teachings and philosophy
* Vivekananda and meditation
* Influence and legacy of Vivekananda
* Neo-Vedanta

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Books|

* Bibliography
* Sangeet Kalpataru
* Bartaman Bharat
* The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
* Inspired Talks
* Jnana Yoga
* Karma Yoga
* Lectures from Colombo to Almora
* My Master
* Raja Yoga
* The East and the West

Poems/songs|

* "Kali the Mother"
* Khandana Bhava–Bandhana
* "My Play is Done"
* The Hymn of Samadhi
* The Song of the Sannyasin
* To the Fourth of July
* Nachuk Tahate Shyama

Lectures|

* "Buddhism, the Fulfilment of Hinduism"
* Christ, the Messenger
* Religion not the crying need of India
* Vedanta Philosophy

Miscellaneous|

* Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached
* Atmano mokshartham jagat hitaya cha
* Bahujana sukhaya bahujana hitaya cha

Foundations|

* Advaita Ashrama
* Belur Math
* Ramakrishna Math
* Ramakrishna Math, Mangaluru
* Ramakrishna Mission
* Udbodhan
* Vedanta Society (New York)

Disciples
and friends|

| Monastic disciples|

* Shuddhananda
* Virajananda
* Swarupananda
* Paramananda

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Other disciples
and friends|

* Ajit Singh of Khetri
* Alasinga Perumal
* Haridas Viharidas Desai
* Emma Calvé
* J. J. Goodwin
* John Henry Wright
* Josephine MacLeod
* Sara Chapman Bull
* Sister Christine
* Sister Nivedita
* Abhayananda
* William Hastie

Memorials|

* Vivekananda Rock Memorial
* National Youth Day (India)
* Swami Vivekananda Airport
* Swami Vivekananda Road metro station
* Swami Vivekanand Nagar
* Vivekanandar Illam
* Vivekananda Setu
* Swami Vivekananda statue (Golpark, Kolkata)
* 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda
* Swami Vivekananda Youth Employment Week
* Vivek Express

Depictions|

| Films|

* Swami Vivekananda (1955)
* Bireswar Vivekananda (1964)
* Swami Vivekananda (1998)
* Swamiji (2012)
* The Light: Swami Vivekananda (2013)

|

Dramas|

* Biley
* Bireswar

Namesake
educational
institutions|

* Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekanand Technical University
* Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University
* Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College
* Swami Vivekanand Subharti University
* Swami Vivekanand University, Madhya Pradesh
* Vivekananda Degree College, Kukatpally
* Vivekananda Degree College, Puttur
* Vivekananda Global University
* Vivekananda Institution
* Vivekananda Kendra Vidyalaya
* Vivekananda Vidya Mandir

Books about|

* Swami Vivekananda on Himself
* Life and Philosophy of Swami Vivekananda
* Notes of Some Wanderings with the Swami Vivekananda
* Swami Vivekananda in the West: New Discoveries
* Pransakha Vivekananda
* Rousing Call to Hindu Nation
* The Master as I Saw Him

Researchers|

* Sankari Prasad Basu
* Mani Shankar Mukherjee
* Marie Louise Burke

* WikiProject
* Commons
* Wikiquote
* Wikisource texts

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Social philosophy

Concepts|

* Agency
* Anomie
* Convention
* Cosmopolitanism
* Customs
* Cultural heritage
* Culturalism
* Inter
* Mono
* Multi
* Culture
* Counter
* Familialism
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* Identity
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* Natural law
* Personhood
* Reification
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* Rights
* Sittlichkeit
* Social alienation
* Social norms
* Spontaneous order
* Stewardship
* Traditions
* Values
* Family
* Volksgeist
* Worldview

Schools|

* Budapest School
* Catholic social teaching
* Distributism
* Communitarianism
* Confucianism
* Conservatism
* Social
* Frankfurt School
* Personalism

Philosophers|

| Ancient|

* Confucius
* Laozi
* Mencius
* Mozi
* Xunzi

|

Medieval|

* Alpharabius
* Aquinas
* Avempace
* Bruni
* Ibn Khaldun
* Maimonides
* Ibn Tufayl

Early modern|

* Calvin
* Erasmus
* Guicciardini
* Locke
* Luther
* Milton
* Montaigne
* Müntzer

18th and 19th
centuries|

* Arnold
* Bentham
* Bonald
* Burke
* Carlyle
* Comte
* Condorcet
* Emerson
* Engels
* Fichte
* Fourier
* Franklin
* Hegel
* Helvétius
* Herder
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* Jefferson
* Kant
* Kierkegaard
* Le Bon
* Le Play
* Marx
* Mill
* Nietzsche
* Owen
* Renan
* Rousseau
* Royce
* Ruskin
* Smith
* Spencer
* de Staël
* Stirner
* Taine
* Thoreau
* Tocqueville
* Vico
* Vivekananda
* Voltaire

20th and 21st
centuries|

* Adorno
* Agamben
* Arendt
* Aron
* Badiou
* Baudrillard
* Bauman
* Benoist
* Berlin
* Butler
* Camus
* de Beauvoir
* Debord
* Deleuze
* Dewey
* Du Bois
* Durkheim
* Eco
* Evola
* Foucault
* Fromm
* Gandhi
* Gehlen
* Gentile
* Gramsci
* Guénon
* Habermas
* Han
* Heidegger
* Hoppe
* Irigaray
* Kirk
* Kołakowski
* Kropotkin
* Land
* Lasch
* MacIntyre
* Marcuse
* Maritain
* Negri
* Niebuhr
* Nussbaum
* Oakeshott
* Ortega
* Pareto
* Polanyi
* Radhakrishnan
* Röpke
* Santayana
* Scruton
* Shariati
* Simmel
* Skinner
* Sombart
* Sowell
* Spengler
* Strauss
* Taylor
* Voegelin
* Walzer
* Weber
* Weil
* Zinn
* Žižek

Works|

* De Officiis (44 BC)
* Oration on the Dignity of Man (1486)
* A Vindication of Natural Society (1756)
* Democracy in America (1835–1840)
* Civilization and Its Discontents (1930)
* The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1935)
* The Second Sex (1949)
* One-Dimensional Man (1964)
* The Society of the Spectacle (1967)
* The History of Sexuality (1976)
* The Culture of Narcissism (1979)
* A Conflict of Visions (1987)
* The Closing of the American Mind (1987)
* Gender Trouble (1990)
* The Malaise of Modernity (1991)
* Intellectuals and Society (2010)

See also|

* Agnotology
* Axiology
* Critical theory
* Cultural criticism
* Cultural pessimism
* Ethics
* Historism
* Historicism
* Humanities
* Philosophy of culture
* Philosophy of education
* Philosophy of history
* Political philosophy
* Social criticism
* Social science
* Social theory
* Sociology

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