#Sage meaning full#

These would surely be focused on his ‘Hindu spiritualism’, not his path-breaking role as a hands-on revolutionary of the ‘extremist section’ of the Congress. He had no premonition that his 150 th birth anniversary would hardly be observed – not that he cared much about these gestures – and that the present dispensation would confine its observance to just a few token gestures.

#Sage meaning full#

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.” “August 15th is my own birthday,” Aurobindo had said from distant Pondicherry, “and it is naturally gratifying to me that it should have assumed this vast significance. The sheer coincidence was not lost then, though it is almost completely forgotten today, on the 150 th anniversary of his birth.Īfter all, the regime of a party and parivar that had kept far away from the freedom struggle and had severely castigated the choice of the tricolour as India’s flag is on an overdrive to utilise the 75 th anniversary of India to appropriate that very flag and to obliterate its own shameful role in the national movement. Sri Aurobindo, the venerable sage of French Pondicherry, turned 75 on the very day British India – which he had quit after leading its first revolutionary war of liberation – attained Independence.