There are very few yogis who are also geostrategists. Similarly, there are very few darshaniks who are also great politicians. Sri Aurobindo is one of those rare few who lived many lives in one, as Peter Heehs has pointed out in his book The Lives of Sri Aurobindo.

Sri Aurobindo was a Renaissance man. He was a linguist, educationist, poet, essayist, translator, literary critic, futurist, internationalist, and, above all, a lover of India and her spiritual truth. We are not used to thinking of Sri Aurobindo as a geostrategist. But he was a great one, as I intend to show here.

It is instructive even now, 75 years after he physically left us, to review his key motifs for India’s resurgence as the standard bearer of spiritual light and a force in global affairs. Some of his ideas are striking and perhaps need to be followed more closely.

Sri Aurobindo stood for the renaissance of India in all her dimensions of existence. His vision encompassed the physical strength and development of her people while also emphasising the intellectual, cultural, educational, social, and political resurgence of her people in their immensely proliferative and creative genius.

Above all, he stood for the spiritual awakening of India, which has been her core strength ever since her birth more than 4-5 millennia ago. For this, spiritual........

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