DATE OF BIRTH : AUGUST 15, 1872
DATE OD DEATH : DECEMBER 1950
NATIONALITY : INDIAN
ASHRAM : SRI AUROBINDO ASRAM, PONDICHERRY, INDIA
§ Sri Aurobindo Ashram is located in Pondicherry, a small coastal town 160 km south of Chennai, in South India. Visitors wanting to travel to Pondicherry will most likely have to pass through Chennai, whether they arrive there by air, train or road, and thereafter cover the remaining distance to Pondicherry by road, a journey which generally takes about 3 hours.
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· Several private and government-owned buses leave Chennai for Pondicherry every half-hour. However, visitors arriving at the Chennai Airport, or even those with a lot of luggage, might find it more convenient to hire a taxi for this leg of their journey.
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· A limited number of rooms are available in Ashram guest houses for visitors coming for a short visit to Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Since accommodation is limited and is often fully booked, it is advisable to make reservations in advance. . In case visitors come to the Ashram without a confirmed booking, they may approach the Bureau Central, which allots rooms according to requirements, provided accommodation is available.
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SRI AUROBINDO QUOTES
Hidden nature is secret God.
India is the meeting
place of the
religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast
and complex
thing,
not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet
subtly unified
mass of
spiritual thought, realization and
aspiration.
India of
the ages is
not dead nor has she
spoken her last creative word; she lives
and has still
something to do
for herself and the human
peoples.
India saw from
the
beginning, and, even in her ages of
reason and her age of increasing
ignorance, she never lost hold of the
insight, that life cannot be
rightly seen
in the sole light, cannot be
perfectly lived in the sole
power of its
externalities.
Indian
religion has always felt
that since the
minds, the temperaments and the
intellectual affinities
of men are unlimited in
their variety, a perfect
liberty of thought and
of worship must be allowed to
the individual in his
approach to the
Infinite.
Life is life - whether in
a cat, or dog or
man. There is
no difference there between a cat or a man. The
idea of
difference is a
human conception for man's own advantage.
Metaphysical
thinking
will always no doubt be a strong element in her
mentality, and it
is to
be hoped that she will never lose her great, her
sovereign powers in
that direction.
She saw the myriad gods, and beyond
God his own
ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond
our
present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw
the splendors of the spirit.
She saw too that man has the power of
exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he
is,
- truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and
seem
even now
too great for its common intelligence.
Spirituality is
indeed the master key of the Indian
mind; the sense of the infinitive is native
to it.
Spirituality is
the
master key of the Indian mind. It is this
dominant inclination of
India
which gives character.
That which we call
the Hindu religion
is really
the Eternal religion because it embraces all
others.
The
Gita is the
greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given
to the
race.
To listen to
some devout people, one would imagine that God never
laughs.
To listen to
some devout people, one would imagine that God never
laughs.
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