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Aurobindo Ghose

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Aurobindo Ghose (1872–1950)

Indian religious writer and leader, founder of Aurobindo Ashram (a centre for religious study) at Pondicherry, southern India. He wrote extensively on Hindu theology and philosophy, proposing a system called integral yoga to bring together body and soul, individual and community. Through his widespread influence on the Hindu intelligentsia he strengthened the modern Hindu movement in the 1930s and 1940s. After his death his followers developed the city of Auroville at his ashram.



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95 Paperback BF311 Psychologist and composer Salmon and consultant Maslow received a grant from the Infinity Foundation to write this synthesis of the Indian yogic tradition based on the teachings of Indian philosopher Sri Aurobindo Ghose.
The first tells of the collaboration from 1902 until 1910 between Irish-born Margaret Noble, who became, as Sister Nivedita, a Bengali activist, and Aurobindo Ghose, a Cambridge-educated Bengali who was for a while actively engaged in nationalist politics: 'It was surely not coincidental that the development of campaigns based on boycott and swadeshi (the locally made) occurred in Bengal not long after the onset in Ireland of the Celtic Revival' (p.
 
 
 
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