Sri Aurobindo

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

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 organisation 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 and ''Synthesis of Yoga'', which deals with the principles and methods of Integral Yoga. In 1926, he and Mira Alfassa founded Sri Aurobindo Ashram.

Aurobindo was the first Indian to create a major literary corpus in English. His work synthesizes the histories of Eastern and Western philosophy, religion, literature, and psychology into a complex vision of the transition of humanity to divinity. His principal philosophical writings are ''The Life Divine'' and ''The Synthesis of Yoga'', while his principal poetic work is ''Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol''. He wrote translations and commentaries of the Vedas, Upanishads, and the Gita among others; plays; literary, social, political, and historical criticism; devotional works, as well as three volumes of letters. Several volumes of his conversations have also been recorded. Provided by Wikipedia