Reflections on Sri Aurobindo’s Poetry

Today we take up the following poem of Sri Aurobindo, written in Baroda around 1900.

This poem is about reconnecting the curves of Fate.

On the day of Mahashivratri celebrated across India this talk provides a glimpse of Shiva along with two of Sri Aurobindo’s Poems, – Shiva and Epiphany.

Dr Alok Pandey shares selected Sri Aurobindo’s poems and his understanding of their poetic beauty and spiritual message.

The blue bird is a symbolic poem that describes the state of the liberated divine soul that connects the earthly life with the Beyond.

In this poem we read about a beautiful experience of Sri Aurobindo.

In this poem we learn about the first major realisation of Sri Aurobindo, the experience of Nirvana. We read the poem and a letter by Sri Aurobindo

This is the last talk of the series “Sri Aurobindo’s Life through His Poems”. We close with the vision and work of Sri Aurobindo, and a few passages from Savitri. Text of the poems which were recited is below.

Today’s talk touches upon some of Sri Aurobindo’s personal experience of transformation in the body and its impact upon the earth.

This talk is touching upon Sri Aurobindo’s sacrifice to redeem matter.

Today’s talk touches upon the Divine Sacrifice of Sri Aurobindo into the Inconscient Night to clear the passage.

Today’s talk touches upon the events centred around the end of World War ll.

Today’s talk touches upon the period of World War II. The poems included: I made Danger my Helper, The Children of Wotan, The Dwarf Napoleon, and In the Battle.

Sri Aurobindo’s life through his poems. Today’s talk touches upon the period from 1926 to the 1938 when the Ashram was being consolidated.

Sri Aurobindo’s Life through his Poems. Today’s talk touches upon the coming of disciples around Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.

The subject of the talk is an event of Sri Aurobindo’s identification with Sri Krishna on the 24th November 1926. The texts of quoted poems and aphorisms are below.

Today’s talk touches upon the period from 1914 to 1920 primarily upon Sri Aurobindo’s Writings in the Arya.

Today’s talk touches upon the coming together of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo.

Selected poems give a glimpse of Sri Aurobindo’s yoga as it was developing along unique lines after reaching Pondicherry. The poems include the following:– Ascent (‘The Silence’ and ‘Beyond the Silence’), pp. 581-582– Descent, p. 578– O Will of God, p. 520– Ahana, pp. 477-491– Light, p. 618– Bride of the Fire, p. 532[pages for CWSA 2: Collected Poems]

We take up a few poems to touch upon some of Sri Aurobindo’s experiences around the time he left for Pondicherry. The poems include:– Transit, Non Periit– To R. On her Birthday– A child’s imagination– The Divine worker– The Cosmic man– The blue bird