Aurobinda Ghosh in English

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Sri Aurobindo Ghose was born as Aurobindo Acroyd Ghose who later became famous as Sri Aurobindo Maharishi. He was a great philosopher, patriot, revolutionary, guru, mystic, yogi, poet, and humanist. He was born in Kolkata in 1872 on 15th of August in a standard Bengali family. His family surrounding environment was full of British culture because of his father interest. He took his early childhood education by the English nanny so he developed good English speaking skill. His later studies were completed in Darjeeling and London.

His father Krishna Dhun Ghose always wanted his sons to enter to the Indian Civil Service. To achieve this success he sent Aurobindo Ghose to study in England where he was admitted to the good English school. He was a multilingual person and knew English, French, Bengali, Sanskrit, etc very well. He was very natural to the English as it was his childhood language. He was well aware that English was good medium of communication at that time. Using English language to exchange expression, ideas, and instruction was of great advantage. He was a person of high moral character which made him able to become a teacher, writer, thinker, and editor. He was a good writer who wrote in his various writings about humanity, philosophy, education, Indian culture, religion, and politics.

He met Bal Gangadhar Tilak in Ahmadabad Congress Session in 1902 where he really got influenced by his dynamic and revolutionary personality. He joined the Indian freedom struggle by getting inspired with Bal Gangadhar Tilak. He again joined the Congress at Lucknow in 1916 and became a chief supporter with Lala Lajpat Rai and Bipin Chandra Pal for the militant nationalism in order to get freedom from British rule. They requested people to come forward and do sacrifices for the freedom. They never accepted any help and support from the Britishers as they always believed in “Swaraj”.

He got some help from the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad in order to extend revolutionary activities outside the Bengal. Various effective ways of achieving freedom including refusal of foreign goods and militant actions are mentioned by the Aurobindo in his “Bande Mataram”. His effective writings and speeches helped him to spread the message of Swadeshi, Swaraj, and boycott of foreign things to the people of India. He was the founder of Sri Aurobindo Ashram Auroville. He died on 5th of December in 1950 in Pondicherry (currently called Puducherry), French India.