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Sri Aurobindo has written voluminous works on various aspects of Indian culture and heritage. It is possible to draw some key insights from there which can help educate and sensitize different stakeholders in the tourism industry. Founded by Sri Aurobindo on 24th November in the year 1926, Sri Aurobindo Ashram is synonymous with Puducherry. Encouraging spiritual tenets that represent a synthesis of yoga and modern science, the Ashram visited by thousands of devotees and tourists worldwide to get spiritual knowledge.The ashram serves as the headquarters of the Sri Aurobindo Society (SAS).The Ashram was set up in 1926 by Sri Aurobindo Ghose, the celebrated philosopher poet,seer,thinker ,freedom fighter born in Kolkata in 1872 to a rich Bengali family, Aurobindo began the practice of Yoga in 1905 and five years later he moved to Puducherry from Bengal. During his forty years tenure at Puducherry, Aurobindo worked out a new system of mental development which he called Integral Yoga. His philosophical writings and poetry-lofty and impenetrable to the casual reader attract worldwide attention. Later Mirra Alfassa, a French painter-sculptor who had followed the same path like Aurobindo, joined him later. Together, in 1926, they founded an ashram where his belief -' All life is Yoga'- could be put into practice.They both started the magazine the Arya.Later Mirra Alfassa came to be known as the Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. It was the Mother who launched the community of Auroville, which flourishes ten kilometres outside of Puducherry.After Aurobindo’s death in 1950, the running of the Ashram was entrusted by Mirra Alfassa. She died in 1973 at the age of 93. |
