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| Formation | 24 November 1926 |
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| Founder | Sri Aurobindo |
| Type | Spiritual community |
| Legal status | Foundation |
| Purpose | Educational, Philanthropic, Religious Studies, Spirituality, Meditation |
| Headquarters | Pondicherry, India |
| Coordinates | 11°56′12″N 79°50′03″E / 11.936708°N 79.834039°E |
Main organ | Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust |
| Website | sriaurobindoashram.org |
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The Sri Aurobindo Ashram (French: Ashram de Sri Aurobindo) is a spiritual community (ashram) located in Pondicherry, in the Indian territory of Puducherry. The ashram grew out of a small community of disciples who had gathered around Sri Aurobindo after he retired from politics and settled in Pondicherry in 1910. On 24 November 1926, after a major spiritual realization, Sri Aurobindo withdrew from public view in order to continue his spiritual work. At this time he handed over the full responsibility for the inner and outer lives of the sadhaks (spiritual aspirants) and the ashram to his spiritual collaborator, "The Mother or La Mère", earlier known as Mirra Alfassa. This date is therefore generally known as the founding-day of the ashram, though, as Sri Aurobindo himself wrote, it had "less been created than grown around him as its centre."[1]
- ^ Sri Aurobindo, Autobiographical Notes and Other Writings of Historical Interest (Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2006), p. 9.