LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 21:10 October 2021
ISSN 1930-2940

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Sri Aurobindo and Yoga

Abhipsa Mohanta, Ph.D. Research Scholar


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Introduction

India has given birth to hundreds of sages, saints, and philosophers who have worked to restore and renew her rich spiritual heritage periodically. This has ensured the continuity of spiritual tradition from Vedic times, a tradition that is vibrant even today despite external onslaughts and internal upheavals. There have been great fighters in modern India like Tilak, philosophers like Vivekananda, poets like Tagore, and ‘Mahatmas’ like Gandhi. But Sri Aurobindo was all these, and a yogi as well. Patanjali and Sri Aurobindo represent two ends of this unbroken and unceasing spiritual tradition.

Considered an incarnation of the mythical serpent king Ananta, who supports the earth, Patanjali is believed to have lived two thousand years ago. He was born to put the house of yoga in order and to systematize it for ease of comprehension and access. Hence if Shiva is the first yogi, Patanjali is next to him among yogis of the highest order. The system propounded by him is known as ashtanga yoga, the eight-limbed yoga comprising of yama, niyama, asana, pranayama, prayahara, dharma, dhyana, and Samadhi.

Sri Aurobindo belongs to modern times. He was a poet, philosopher, freedom fighter, nationalist and above all a rishi and yogi in the Vedic tradition. Born on 15 August 1872 he had fourteen years of rigorous English education at St. Paul’s school in London and Kings College, Cambridge. His life after return to India in 1892 underwent several twists and turns. After working in various administrative and professional posts in Baroda and Calcutta, including that of a teacher at Maharaja’s College he plunged into revolutionary nationalist politics, advocating extremist methods to free India from British rule. In 1908 while in the Alipore bomb case he had several mystical experiences which drastically transformed him into a yogi.

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Abhipsa Mohanta
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Department of Sanskrit
Pondicherry University
Pondicherry- 605014
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