On 16 November 1905, the Landholders Society organized a meeting at Park Street, attended by 1500 delegates, including Rabindranath Tagore, Aurobindo Ghosh, Raja Subodh Chandra Mullick and Brajendra Kishore Roychowdhury.

The early part of the 20th century saw a more radical approach towards political independence proposed by leaders such as the Lal, Bal, Pal and Aurobindo Ghosh.

In fact Aurobindo Ghosh and Pal were recognised as the chief exponents of a new national movement revolving around the ideals of Purna Swaraj, Swadeshi, boycott and national education.

Deva was first drawn to nationalism around 1915 under the influence of B G Tilak and Aurobindo Ghosh.

Its chief architects were Aurobindo Ghosh, Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bipin Chandra Pal and Lala Lajpat Rai.

The movement was strongly influenced by the writings of Sri Aurobindo Ghosh.

Nivedita provided guarded support to Annie Besant, and was very close to Aurobindo Ghosh ( later Sri Aurobindo ), on of the major contributors towards early nationalist movement.

The locality was also witness to the Alipore bomb case and a spectator to the freedom struggle of the Indian revolutionaries, like Aurobindo Ghosh who were imprisoned at Alipore Jail.

During this time, the two of them wrote to one of their mentors, Barindra Kumar Ghosh, the eminent revolutionary and the younger brother of Sri Aurobindo, whenever they needed money, addressing the Barindra with the code-name " Sukumar " for safety.

This included a rare book of Aurobindo Ghosh, Yogik Sadhan, translated from Bengali into Hindi by Ram Prasad Bismil.

One of his teachers at Baroda College was Sri Aurobindo Ghosh who had a profound impression on him.

W. Sealy in his report on " Connections with Bihar and Orissa " notes that Jatin Mukherjee " a close confederate of Nani Gopal Sen Gupta of the Howrah Gang (...) worked directly under the orders of Aurobindo Ghosh.

In the second part of the 20th century hexameter was used in the longest ever poem, Savitri ( book ), written in English by Sri Aurobindo.

On 11 March 1922 the foundation stone of Aurobindo Bhavan, which is currently the main administrative centre of the university, was laid.

The seat of engineering was shifted to the Aurobindo Bhavan in 1924 when the building was completed.

" Aurobindo Ghose considered Vivekananda as his spiritual mentor, saying " Vivekananda was a soul of puissance if ever there was one, a very lion among men ..." At the Belur Math, Mahatma Gandhi was heard to say that his whole life was an effort to bring into action the ideas of Vivekananda.

The 20th century Hindu guru Sri Aurobindo was influenced by German Idealism and his Integral yoga is regarded as a synthesis of Eastern and Western thought.

Inspired by Sri Aurobindo ( 1872 – 1950 ), Chinmoy was encouraged to pursue his athletic abilities-he was a decathlon champion at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, as well as captain of the soccer and volleyball teams, as well as being very enthusiastic about cricket.

One requirement was that he provide a reference from the Sri Aurobindo Ashram concerning his suitability as a teacher.

Swarup was influenced by Sri Aurobindo, whom he held to be the greatest exponent of the Vedic vision in our times.

In 1974, Mr. Reddy brought Mother Meera to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India, of which he was a member.

Mother Meera does not belong to any particular tradition, except for a certain closeness to the work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, whom she was reported to have met in their subtle bodies, when she was a child, visiting their Samadhi ( grave ).

His younger brother was Aurobindo Ghose, the politician and spiritual leader.

He was imprisoned for six months on the grounds of his refusal to give evidence against Sri Aurobindo in the Vande Mataram sedition case.

Sri Aurobindo developed a very different concept of the mental plane, through his own synthesis of Vedanta ( including the Taittiriya Upanishad ), Tantra, Theosophy, and Max Théon ideas ( which he received via The Mother, who was Theon's student in occultism for two years ).

The school was founded on 23 April 1956 by founder Shri Surendra Nath Jauhar " Faquir ", with the blessings of The Mother, Mirra Alfassa, a spiritualist, the spiritual partner and collaborator of Sri Aurobindo.

While Wilber's debt to Sri Aurobindo ( despite their very different approaches ) is evident in the foreword to a book on Aurobindonian Integral psychology, Wilber began working on the manuscript of a textbook for integral psychology in 1992, tentatively titled System, Self, and Structure, but was diverted because he felt the need to provide more detail on his integral philosophy in Sex, Ecology, Spirituality ( 1995 ).

In his The Future Poetry Sri Aurobindo has acclaimed Cousins ' New Ways in English Literature as " literary criticism which is of the first order, at once discerning and suggestive, criticism which forces us both to see and think.

In one recent Hindu interpretation, Sri Aurobindo in his Secret of the Veda, described Ushas as " the medium of the awakening, the activity and the growth of the other gods ; she is the first condition of the Vedic realisation.

He came to India at the age of 19 and spent his first eight years in the " international city " of Auroville India at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry.

Aurobindo holds that there exists a supreme power, the ' Supermind ', which is the first emanation from saccidānanda and can be brought into play through the practice of yoga to yoke life, mind and matter with sublime states of consciousness, being, delight and power and thereby manifest more of our inherent divinity.

Bhattacharya later enrolled at the National College under Sri Aurobindo, before moving to the Bengal Technical Institute, where he studied Engineering and Chemistry.

There, through Amarendra Chatterjee of the Jugantar led by Jatin Mukherjee ( Bagha Jatin ), he secretly got involved with the revolutionaries of Bengal and, thanks to Jatindra Nath Banerjee alias Niralamba Swami, the earliest political disciple of Sri Aurobindo, he came across eminent revolutionary members of the Arya Samaj in the United Provinces ( currently Uttar Pradesh ) and the Punjab.

When in his fourth year at Presidency College, Calcutta, he left a promising academic career, and rejecting a lucrative Government job, to join a small revolutionary group under Sri Aurobindo.

Subsequent centuries produced commentaries and reformulations continuing up to as late as the 20th century by Aurobindo and Prabhupada among others.

Although the Institute has no official spiritual path, some of its historical roots lie among followers of the Bengali sage Sri Aurobindo.

He was taught Greek, Latin, French and Italian by Sri Aurobindo himself, and was among the four disciples who were with Sri Aurobindo in 1910 at Pondicherry.

Influential in spreading Hinduism to a western audience were A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ( Hare Krishna movement ), Sri Aurobindo, Meher Baba, Osho, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi ( Transcendental Meditation ), Sathya Sai Baba, Mother Meera, among others.

In 1902 and 1903, when Sri Aurobindo ( who was in the earlier stage of his life a revolutionary leader and ideologue ) and Sister Nivedita respectively visited Medinipur and held a series of public lectures along with secret planning sessions with the revolutionary groups ; Khudiram was among the teenage student community of the town which was fired up with a burning inspiration of revolution.

Nationalists like Aurobindo Ghose were Tilak supporters.

His works on Communism were reviewed and praised in the West and in India by people like Bertrand Russell, Arthur Koestler, Sri Aurobindo, Ashoka Mehta, Sardar Patel and Philip Spratt.

Some of them were Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan, Swami Sahajanand Saraswati, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Ramana Maharshi and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.

Some of the significant figures of the Indian independence movement were Kayasthas, including the spiritual leaders Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo, and the revolutionary leader Subhas Chandra Bose.

During this time, Satprem was looked to by the French-speaking Aurovillians as the successor and inheritor of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother's work, and a number of radicals were drawn to him because of his revolt against the Ashram elders

Selected transcripts were approved, and in a few instances revised, by the Mother, and these appeared regularly from February 1965 to April 1973 in The Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Center of Education under the headings " Notes on the Way ", and " A Propos ".

Among early nationalist leaders, the most prominent were Sri Aurobindo, Indira devi Chaudhurani, Bipin Chandra Pal.

All the editorials were submitted to Sri Aurobindo for approval, and most were found to be impeccable, although on a few occasions small but significant changes were made.

According to Satprem ( see note to " On Pavitra and Pavitra's Death "), Pavitra left some very interesting memoirs of his conversations with Sri Aurobindo and Mother in 1925 and 1926, large parts of which were destroyed ( almost a third of Pavitra's notebooks ) by his closest collaborator, with the pretext that it would be " better left unsaid ".

He published a collection of his poems as Blossom of the Sun and 50 poems by Nirodbaran, which were revised and commented on by Sri Aurobindo.

At the time there were few disciples staying with Sri Aurobindo.