- Lived:
- 1872–1950 · Calcutta, England, Baroda, and Pondicherry, India
- Tradition:
- Integral Vedānta — Indian non-dualism rethought as a philosophy of evolution
- The Big Idea:
- Evolution is not finished, and it was never just about bodies: consciousness itself is evolving, from matter through life through mind toward something beyond mind — and human beings are the first creatures who can join in on purpose.
- In their words:
- "All life is yoga."
- If you remember one thing:
- He took Darwin's ladder and the Upanishads' Brahman and welded them into one claim — that mind is not the summit of evolution but a halfway house, and the universe is divinity slowly waking up.