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Sri Aurobindo

Disciplines:
philosophy
poetry
fitness/yoga

Summary

Indian philosopher, poet, and yogi who began as a Bengali revolutionary and transformed into a spiritual philosopher developing integral yoga — a synthesis of traditional yoga with evolutionary thought.

Core Contribution

Integral Yoga: a comprehensive yoga that includes matter, life, mind, and spirit — unlike world-denying yoga, it aims at transforming the material world through spiritual force. The Life Divine: evolution has a spiritual dimension — Involution (spirit descending into matter) and evolution (matter ascending back to spirit). Savitri: an epic poem of 24,000 lines. Synthesis of Yoga: a systematic account of integral yoga.

Notable Works & Achievements

The Life Divine

The Synthesis of Yoga

Savitri

Historical Influences

Ramakrishna Swami Vivekananda Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Intellectual Lineage

Advaita Vedanta Evolutionary Philosophy

Contemporaries & Peers

The MotherRabindranath Tagore

Minds Influenced

Ken Wilber Integral Theory

Intellectual Posterity

Integral YogaIntegral Theory

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