ABSTRACT
Sri Aurobindo Ghose (1872-1950), a yogin and spiritual teacher as well as a nationalist politician of prominence, wrote widely. With a career that began as a speechwriter and journalist, Aurobindo became a philosopher and poet after varied efforts as newspaper editor and polemicist urging the end of British rule. In his forties, he dropped out of politics to give, by his own account, his entire attention to yoga. As a philosopher, Aurobindo advocates a mystical summum bonum along the lines of the classical schools of Yoga and Vedānta. But he adds a rather original cosmology, claiming sensitivity to science. He puts forth a metaphysics best classified as a modern Vedāntic theism or neo-Vedānta.
