id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5085 Sri Aurobindo - Wikipedia .html text/html 12158 1745 70 Aurobindo Ghose was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata), Bengal Presidency, India on 15 August 1872 in a Bengali family that was associated with the village of Konnagar in the Hooghly district of present-day West Bengal.[3] His father, Krishna Dhun Ghose, was then assistant surgeon of Rangpur in Bengal and later civil surgeon of Khulna, and a former member of the Brahmo Samaj religious reform movement who had become enamoured with the then-new idea of evolution while pursuing medical studies in Edinburgh.[4][a] His mother Swarnalata Devi's father Shri Rajnarayan Bose was a leading figure in the Samaj. He describes Sri Aurobindo's philosophy as "an original synthesis of the Indian and Western traditions." "He integrates in a unique fashion the great social, political and scientific achievements of the modern West with the ancient and profound spiritual insights of Hinduism. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5085.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5085.txt