The Prisoner who saw God: Sri Aurobindo's vision in prison

In 1908, Aurobindo Ghose was placed in a colonial prison in India. The British administration intended to remove him permanently. What happened instead — in that cell, in that silence — became one of the most consequential interior journeys of the twentieth century. Sri Aurobindo arrived at his understanding of the divine nature of reality not through philosophy or consoling belief, but through direct, unambiguous experience. What followed was forty years of the most sustained and rigorous inner work of his century — a complete vision of consciousness, evolution, and the transformation of human life that remains as challenging and as alive today as the moment he articulated it. This is the first in the Flame Keepers series — profiles of the twentieth-century thinkers who kept the perennial wisdom alive under maximum materialist pressure. For those who want to go deeper: his Essays on the Gita is the place to begin. 0.00 Sri Aurobindo imprisoned 1.33 Aurobindo’s biography 2.36 Sri Aurobindo’s enlightenment 3.40 Ashram in Pondicherry 4:04 Aurobindo’s commentary on the Bhagavad Gita 5:21 The supramental state and Aurobindo’s deepest teaching 6:46 The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo True North is produced by Murray Morison. New videos every Wednesday. Part of the wider work at IntegralWisdom.org #SriAurobindo #PerennialPhilosophy #ConsciousnessEvolution #IntegralYoga #Aurobindo