Celebration of Birth Anniversary of Shri Aurobindo
Celebration of Birth Anniversary of Shri Aurobindo -
Celebration of Birth Anniversary of Shri Aurobindo was an Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, scholar, poet, mystic, evolutionary, philosopher, yogi and guru. Some of his followers believe him to be an incarnation of the Absolute.
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Sri Aurobindo spent his life through his vast writings and through his self development working for the freedom of India.
He built a famous Ashram in Pondicherry on the 24 November 1926. Today the ashram is an eminent institution
which provides many charitable benefits to the area.
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Celebration of Birth Anniversary of Shri Aurobindo is a man of great honor and his Birth anniversary is celebrated all over Festivals in Pondicherry area.
August 15, the birth anniversary of Celebration of
Birth Anniversary of Shri Aurobindo, is a holy day in Sir Aurobindo Ashram.
On this day, thousands of people from all over the world come to the ashram to pay their reverence to the great sage, poet and philosopher of the twentieth century and also visit his staff quarters.
It is a great day at
Festivals in Pondicherry where all people visit the Ashram. Many cultural as well as social programs are organized to mark the importance of the day.
Sri Aurobindo was born in Calcutta on 15 August 1872. At the age of seven he was taken to England for education and in 1890 went up to King's College, Cambridge. Here he stood in the first class in the Classical Tripos and also passed the final examination for the Indian Civil Service.
Returning to India in 1893, he worked for the next thirteen years in the Princely State of Baroda in the service of the Maharaja and as a professor in Baroda College. During this period he also joined a revolutionary society and took a leading role in secret preparations for an uprising against the British Government in India.
After the Partition of Bengal in 1905, Sri Aurobindo quit his post in Baroda and went to Calcutta, where he soon became one of the leaders of the Nationalist movement.
He was the first political leader in India to openly put forward, in his journal Bande Mataram, the ideal of complete independence for the country. Prosecuted twice for sedition and once for conspiracy, he was released each time for lack of evidence.
There is a unique way followed in the celebration of
Festival Masimagam. To observe this festival, several statues of deities are brought from the temples in and around Pondicherry to the beach. On beach these statues are taken for sanctimonious sea bath.
As various deities are brought from numerous temples for celebrating Festival Masimagam, So you can find a big procession to the sea shore with the accompaniment of Nadhaswaram, images of Chakra (discus, the symbol of Vishnu) and the trisul (trident the symbol of Siva) near Kuruchikuppam in Pondicherry municipal area.
Masimagam Festival and Pondicherry festivals is a day-long celebration. From early morning to late night of the day, people remain busy in festivity. However, the celebration meets an end with the returning procession whereby deities who were carried to the sea shore for sanctimonious bath are taken back to their respective places in the evening.
Masimagam Festival and Pondicherry festivals is celebrated on a mass scale. Every year thousands of pilgrims and tourists come to witness and participate in this festival.
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