Sri Aurobindo began the practice of yoga in 1905 and moved from Bengal to Pondicherry. During his 40 years here, he worked out a new system of mind development, which he called --Internal Yoga.

Madame Mirra Richard, a French painter-sulptor who had followed the same path on her own, joined him later. She is known as -- The Mother. Together, in 1926, they founded an ashram where his belief -- " all life is yoga", could be put in to practice. At night, today, Pondicherrians who believe in Sri Aurobindo's way of life, wind their way ashram wards.

Inside, the lights throw a welcome radiance over it all, the flower decked samadhi presides. By day, the ashram bustles with silent queues to see Sri Aurobindo's room for meditation or blessings.