Shri Aurobindo: the journey of a freedom fighter to a saint
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Mayank Dubey
He was a freedom fighter, thinker, poet, writer, yogi and spiritual leader
Studied from: University of Cambridge, he was one of the earliest Indians to be educated in England.
Writer of the epic poem 'Savitri': one of the longest poems in the English (23,813 lines of verse)
Was imprisoned in 1908 for freedom struggle, fled to French-ruled Puducherry in 1810 to escape the British. It's there he founded the Aurobindo Ashram.
His Objective: to bring people closer to the divinity by increasing the level of their consciousness.
Authored several books on Indian culture, spirituality, and socio-political issues and solutions of India
Important Literary Works:
Essays on the Gita (1922), Collected Poems and Plays (1942)...
The Synthesis of Yoga (1948), The Human Cycle (1949)...
The Ideal of Human Unity (1949), and On the Veda (1956).