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Sri Aurobindo’s Return to India
A podcast by Sri Aurobindo Society
'Hid in ourselves the key of perfect change' (Savitri)
The moment Sri Aurobindo put his foot down on Indian soil at age 21 on 6 February 1893, after a three-week voyage from England at Apollo Bunder in Bombay, he experienced a vast peace and calm which never left him. From then on, attaining India's freedom became his overwhelming concern, and he advocated Swaraj – complete freedom via the fiery articles he wrote in Bande Mataram.
This well-presented and concise talk sketches Sri Aurobindo's remarkable life from Bombay to Pondicherry, where he finally settled for the last 40 years of his life. Spiritual life, he said, is not an escape from the world; indeed, the field of action is still here on earth and the secret of transformation of all life lies within.
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Five Dreams of Sri Aurobindo
The fifteenth of August 1947.
(This message was given by Sri Aurobindo at the request of the All India Radio, Thiruchirapalli. It was broadcast on 14th August 1947). August 15th is my own birthday and it is naturally gratifying to me that it should have assumed this vast significance. I take this coincidence, not as a fortuitous accident, but as the sanction and seal of the Divine Force that guides my steps on the work with which I began life, the beginning of its full fruition. Indeed, on this day I can watch almost all the world-movements which I hoped to see fulfilled in my lifetime, though then they looked like impracticable dreams, arriving at fruition or on their way to achievement. In all these movements free India may well play a large part and take a leading position.
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Five Dreams of Sri Aurobindo