While delivering a speech on June 19, 1909 in the historical conference at Jhalakati in the district of Barisal (presently in Bangladesh), Sri Aurobindo said, And if they are mighty to afflict, we are mighty to endure. We are no ordinary race. We are a people ancient as our hills and rivers and we have behind us a history of manifold greatness, not surpassed by any other race....
...The only means which we have discovered, the only means which we can use without bringing on a violent conflict, without leading to breaches of the law on both sides and bringing things to the arbitrament of physical force, have been the means which we call passive resistance and specially the means of the boycott...
In June 1907, Sri Aurobindo visited Khulna to found a National School
Commemorative plaque installed in Sri Aurobindo's father, Dr. Krishna Dhan Ghose's home in Khulna
Commemorative Plaque installed in the home of Bijoy Kumar Nag, who accompanied Sri Aurobindo to Pondicherry
Dr Krishna Dhan Ghose
Bijoy Kumar Nag
Khulna Speech
Delivered at Khulna, Bengal, on 25 June 1909.
"GENTLEMEN, today I will speak a few words on the Gita. The main object of that philosophy is found in the Vedanta, which is the basis of Hindu thought and life, and according to the Vedanta, life is dominated by maya or avidya. We are driven into action because we are ignorant of our true selves, of the true nature of the world. We identify ourselves with our bodies, our desires, our sorrows, and not our spirits. We lose ourselves in our happiness, griefs and pleasures...."
Plaque installed to commemorate The Surma Valley District Conference
Sri Aurobindo visited Jalsukha in Sylhet for The Surma Valley Conference on 11 & 12 September 1909
At Jalsukha, Sylhet
While delivering a speech at Jalsukha (Sylhet), Sri Aurobindo said, "When I turned to the Yoga and resolved to practise it and find out if my idea was right, I did it in this spirit and with this prayer to Him, “If thou art, then Thou knowest my heart. Thou knowest that I do not ask for Mukti, I do not ask for anything which others ask for. I ask only for strength to uplift this nation, I ask only to be allowed to live and work for the people whom I love and to whom I pray that I may devote my life.”
Kishoreganj, District - Mymensingh
Plaque installed in Kishoreganj
Kishoreganj, District Mymensingh
18.Apr.1908
If we are to survive as a nation we must restore the centres of strength which are natural and necessary to our growth, and the first of these, the basis of all the rest, the old foundation of Indian life and secret of Indian vitality was the self- dependent and self-sufficient village organism. If we are to organise Swaraj we must base it on the village. But we must at the same time take care to avoid the mistake which did much in the past to retard our national growth. The village must not in our new national life be isolated as well as self-sufficient, but must feel itself bound-up with the life of its neighbouring units, living with them in a common group for common purposes; each group again must feel itself part of the life of the district, living in the district unity, so each district must not be engrossed in its own separate existence but feel itself a subordinate part of the single life of the province, and the province in its turn of the single life of the country.
A commemorative Plaque was installed at the KD Canal in Rangpur on 25.Oct.2022.
Sri Aurobindo's father Dr. Kridhnadhan Ghosh, who was then the assisstant surgeon of Rangpur, initiated the construction of this five kilometer long canal to aid in the drainage system of the city where Sri Aurobindo spent his childhood.
The canal was later named the 'KD Canal'
Pabna
Installation at Sri Aurobindo Hall, Annada Govinda Public Library, Pabna
Pabna
13.Feb.1908
Annada Govinda Public Library
"...the University system was defective in its aims and methods intended only to serve the purposes of the Government, not the requirements of the country. It turned out machines for administrative and professional work, not men. The national system of education was intended to create a nation. It must produce men with all their faculties trained, full of patriotism, and mentally, morally, physically the equals of the men of any other nation...."
