Week 46 · eastern

Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo started as a revolutionary fighting for Indian independence from British rule. He was arrested, thrown into solitary confinement, and while sitting in his cell, had a series of spiritual experiences so overwhelming they changed his life completely. He abandoned politics, moved to Pondicherry, and spent the next 40 years developing Integral Yoga...a vision proposing that human evolution is actually an evolution of consciousness, and we're only partway through.

“"The earliest formula of Wisdom promises to be its last. God is in all things." He wrote that after four decades of inner exploration. He started as a political radical and ended as a cosmic optimist.”