About The Book
Sri Aurobindo on Indian Art Selections from His Writings
Born in Calcutta on 15th August 1872, Sri Aurobindo was taken to England at the age of seven and educated there. A brilliant student, he mastered Greek, Latin and French and learned enough German, Italian and Spanish to read Goethe. Dante and Calderon in the original languages. After his return to India in 1893 he entered the service of the Gaekwar of Baroda and in 1898 he became a professor of English at the Baroda College, while reading and translating Bengali and Sanskrit literature in his spare time. During this period he began to practise Yoga. Gradually he became more and more actively involved in working for the freedom of his country. In 1906 he went to Calcutta where, as editor of the newspaper Bande Mataram, he soon became a leader of the Indian national movement. In 1908 he was arrested and imprisoned in the Alipore jail for one year. After his release, he resumed his political activity but only for a short time. The twelve months' detention in jail, spent in deep inner absorption, had changed his outlook. He saw that the seed of the liberation of India had already been sown, that India would inevitably be free one day. A new and greater task awaited him: the manifestation of a new power of consciousness which would eventually lead to a transformation of human life. In 1910 he sought refuge in the French territory of Pondicherry, cutting himself off from all political activity to concentrate alone on his inner work. In 1914 he met Mirra Alfassa who was later known as 'The Mother'. Between 1914 and 1921 Sri Aurobindo wrote most of his major works: among others, The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, Essays on the Gita, The Foundations of Indian Culture, etc., which all appeared in the form of essays in his monthly review, Arya. During the last two decades of his life Sri Aurobindo worked on Savitri, an immense epic poem, the supreme literary legacy of his Yoga. In November 1926 he withdrew into solitude and gave the charge of his newly founded Ashram to the Mother. The years that followed were dedicated to intense yogic practice. Sri Aurobindo left his body on 5th December 1950.
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