Aurobindo Jayanthi

Sri Aurobindo Ghose (1872-1950) was a multifaceted personality-a great scholar, litterateur, philosopher, patriot, social reformer and above all a visionary. His 138th birth anniversary was celebrated on the 15th of August, which coincided with India’s Independence Day. India attained independence on the same day 75 years after his birth in 1872. In a message on the Independent Day, he said: “ 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.”