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Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo
Introduction
Born on the 15th August 1872 in West Bengal, Sri Aurobindo Ghosh got his early education in the Loretto Convent School of Darjeeling, and was sent to England at an early age of 8. In the beginning, he studied under the guidance of an able teacher in England. In 1885, he was sent to St. Paul's School in London, where he studied some classical languages like Greek and Latin. In 1893 he came to India and joined the Baroda State service. There he found sufficient time to study the ancient Indian Philosophy. He lived in Baroda for about ten years, after which he devoted himself to political work. In 1908 he was arrested and it is said that during his imprisonment he realised that he was destined to pursue a different course of life. A kind of spiritual change brought him to the ways of a Yogi. In April 1910, he shifted to Pondicherry, and stayed there till he breathed his last in 1950. He founded an Ashram at Pondicherry so as to put into practice his spiritual ideas. After a few years, one of his eminent disciples, Mira Richard, took upon herself the task of management of the Ashram and in course of time she became literally and figuratively "the Mother of the Ashram.
The Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo was influenced by Western Philosophy and literature, which he had studied at an early
