Aurobindo Ghosh Quotes

Indian Bengali philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet and nationalist (1872–1950)

Sri Aurobindo [born Aravinda Akroyd Ghose] (15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950) was an Indian nationalist, scholar, poet, mystic, philosopher, yogi and guru, who developed concepts of human progress and spiritual evolution. With the help of his spiritual collaborator, Mirra Alfassa, he founded the Sri Aurobindo Ashram.

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Native Name: অরবিন্দ ঘোষ

Alternative Names: Sri Aurobindo Ghose • Sri Orobindo • Orobindo Ghosh • Shri Aurobindo • Aurobindo Ghose • Sri Aurobindo • Aurobindo • Aravinda Ackroyd Ghose • A.A.Ghosh • A.G. • Maharshi Aravind Babu

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Gandhi, who assumed leadership of the nationalist movement several years after Aurobindo's withdrawal from politics, he was more deeply committed to the liberation of Indian consciousness than to political independence.

A force of spare direct necessity
Reduced the heavy framework of man’s days
And his overburdening mass of outward needs
To a first thin strip of simple animal wants,
And the mighty wideness of the primitive earth
And the brooding multitude of patient trees
And the musing sapphire leisure of the sky
And the solemn weight of the slowly passing months
Had left in her deep room for thought and God.

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What is the use of only being? I say to thee, Become, for therefore wast thou established as a man in this world of matter.